SDY News and Press, SPDR S&P Dividend From 06/20/22

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The year-over-year change in core CPI peaked in March and is coming down, albeit slower than we’d all like to see. The economy is slowing in some areas and inflation is still high but probably peaking. Bond yields are starting to look pretty attractive relative to stock div...

It is no surprise to most investors that the effects of inflation are having a negative impact on some investment asset classes with the consumer price index running at 8.26% versus just 2.28% at the end of 2019. The increase in the 10-year US treasury yield has made bonds more compet...

The top ten ETF outflow leaders watched a combined $17.8B exit the door in May, with commodities among the most heavily represented groups. Beyond the commodity-related segments, the ETFs that led the exodus represented multiple other segments of the economy, including the financials and heal...

I've redesigned my monthly dividend ETF report to allow readers to download dozens of metrics for nearly 100 funds. You can quickly sort by key features like fees, AUM, dividend yield, dividend growth, volatility, turnover, returns, and risk-adjusted returns to find the best ETF for y...

MSCI U.S. Growth has underperformed its Value counterpart by 16% in the first 4 months of 2022 and had a tough end to 2021 as well. The fact that growth traps are more painful than value traps is, in one sense, not really a surprise. Value stocks are already companies that investors d...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

Janus Henderson’s analysis shows Q1 jump in global dividends of 11% to $302.5B; a record for usually quieter Q1, underlying growth was even stronger at 16.1%. Q1 dividend payments in the US rose 10.4% on an underlying basis to a new record of $141.6B. Broadly Q1 2021 saw significa...

Our rising price problem is, more than anything, a supply problem, and reducing demand is certainly one way to tackle it. But returning to the pre-COVID growth rate doesn’t mean we are headed to recession, that contraction is in our immediate future. US stocks and REITs wer...

Large-cap growth stocks outperformed small-cap value stocks by over 700 basis points (bps) annualized from 2012 to 2021. This stretch of whopping outperformance - a cumulative gain of 508% for large growth versus 211% for small value - stands in stark contrast to the findings of acade...