SDS News and Press, ProShares UltraShort S&P500 From 06/22/23

2023-06-22 03:11:00 ET Summary The new Powell arithmetic: The Fed and the rates market believe that policy is restrictive. But uncertainty remains as the Fed signaled additional hikes and bond markets have priced in a higher probability of additional “insurance” hikes be...

2023-06-22 02:27:00 ET Summary The exit from a decade of very low interest rates, via the most aggressive hiking cycle since 1980 has laid bare the distorted financing incentives that became entrenched in the years between the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and the end of pandemic-er...

2023-06-21 13:45:09 ET UltraShort S&P500 ( NYSEARCA: SDS ) - $0.3753 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.68% as of May 31. Payable Jun 28; for shareholders of record Jun 22; ex-div Jun 21. For further details see: UltraShort S&P500 declares quarterly distribution...

2023-06-20 21:05:00 ET Summary Two weeks in a row, jobless claims have been elevated, affecting the four-week moving average. These indicators have not been as high since late 2021 and early 2022. Economic indicators geared towards manufacturing show a recession in that part of th...

2023-06-20 14:19:00 ET Summary The latest rebound in equity prices has pulled the S&P 500 and Canada’s TSX back to levels seen two years ago in June/July 2021. In the real economy, Canada’s Producer Price Index (PPI) for May contracted 6.3% year-over-year and the...

2023-06-20 11:03:00 ET Summary The trading week ending on Friday, June 16, 2023, saw the S&P 500 surge to 4409.59, up 2.6% from the previous week's close. The developing expectation is that the Fed will hold rates steady for several months after its next rate hikes, after whic...

2023-06-19 06:05:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 earnings yield has fallen to 5.1% and hasn’t been this low in 15 months. The good news is that the S&P 500 rose 2.5% last week. The Bloomberg corporate high-yield index shows that that asset class was up 5.31% as of Fri...

2023-06-19 03:40:00 ET Summary On March 31st, 2023, the S&P 500 was priced to return 2.41%/year over the next ten years. I don’t think AI will permanently increase productivity. The system should adjust and things should remain mostly the same. The estimated rate of...

2023-06-14 21:30:00 ET Summary This year is showing there is a wide dispersion of returns across the standard index providers’ definitions of growth and value. Microsoft was the second-largest holding in the S&P 500 Growth Index and the top holding in the S&P 500 Va...

2023-06-14 15:00:00 ET Summary Heading into the month of June, stock market performance this year was a clear case of the haves and the have-nots. As of 5/31, just three sectors - Technology, Communications Services, and Consumer Discretionary - were outperforming the S&P 500 ...