SKF News and Press, ProShares UltraShort Financials From 07/02/20

By Payal Lakhani AT A Glance The Russell US Indexes' annual reconstitution process is critical to maintaining accurate representation of U.S. equity markets. The reconstitution is a major event in the U.S. equity calendar, presenting risk management challenges for some and trade opp...

By Matthew Ziehl, CFA, Portfolio Manager ; Adam Weiner Portfolio Manager and Jason Farrell, CFA, Product Director Small-cap stocks have outperformed large caps since this year's market low, perhaps a sign of a historical pattern. Small-cap stocks have had a tough run versu...

Next week, readers will see the "quarterly bump" in the forward four-quarter estimate with the key metric expected to rise from $127.98 this week to the low $140 area as the forward estimate period will cover Q3 '20 through Q2 '21. Looking at the forward S&P 500 EPS curve , the revisi...

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The "forward 4-quarter" S&P 500 estimate this week came in at $128.45 versus $128.32 from last week for the first sequential improvement in the "forward 4-quarter estimate" since the week of January 17, 2020. The forward 4-quarter estimate covers the period from Q2 '20 through Q1 '21, ...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, head of Global Markets Research US stocks regained their dominance with the global risk rally of the past two months, and US small caps have led the way. The Russell 2000 is up almost 40% from its March 23 low, outstripping the gains of 38% the Russell ...

So far anyway, although there is another four weeks until Q2 '20 earnings start, here is how 2019-2021 S&P 500 EPS look: 2021: $164.00 (current estimate for full-year 2021 S&P 500 EPS) 2020: $125.48 (current estimate) 2019: $162.93 - actual I've written the l...

Introduction In September, 2019, I put out an article titled " The Monetary Death Spiral " attempting to explain why interest rates, inflation, productivity, and economic growth have been sliding downward over the past 35 years. To understand the theory, one must first understand the tw...

Using Refinitiv's Earnings Aggregates published this morning, Friday, May 22nd, 2020, and updating our spreadsheet, readers can see the continued decline in the rate of erosion in forward estimates, which - all other things being equal - should be very much a positive for the S&P 500 and t...

By Samantha S. Lau Small-cap stocks were hit harder than large-caps in the coronavirus sell-off. But given the extreme market dislocations, select smaller companies with innovative advantages could offer investors a surprising source of diversification for the uncertain times ahead. Inve...