SMLE News and Press, Xtrackers S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF From 11/01/22

Summary Most of the media tends to focus on the results of the 30-stock DJIA, which gives you a distinct happy view that this senior index is up +14.40% from its low point, which is in the mid-range for rallies after a sizable decline. A much larger sample found in the S&P 500...

Summary Despite some headline misses in big tech, markets ended the week with a significant rally and the Dow realized its fourth consecutive winning week. This week, we get Q3 results from 167 S&P 500 companies from a smattering of sectors. November 3 is predicted to be t...

Summary Virtually all of the Q3 2022 GDP growth was attributable to a lower trade deficit that added 2.77% to GDP growth. Most of that came from higher petroleum exports, due largely to one million barrels per day being released from the SPR. In two to three years, I expect energy...

Summary October started strong and then slid to new lows but managed to rally back toward the month’s end. The current decline in the market has only reversed the extreme extension above the 200-week moving average. We suspect that the risk of a recession in 2023 is sub...

Summary The Fed is going to meet this week and the course of the stock and bond markets, at least for a while, will be determined by what is decided at the FOMC meeting. Household and corporate balance sheets are remarkably liquid. Financials, real estate, and industrials led ...

Summary Rampant speculation is going on in the options market, and most of it is betting that we will go up from here. The speculators and violent moves are making the market more vulnerable, and the market has the potential to turn hard either way here. The Fed meets again ne...

Summary Why some earnings results are surprising to the upside. Big tech is stumbling out of the earnings gate, and it was to be expected. The inflation factor: Good for some earnings, bad for others. Several U.S. bellwethers have reported their quarterly results. Wh...

Summary Central banks across the globe are not in lock step with the U.S. Fed. Could this limit what the Fed could do? Will the Fed start signaling a less hawkist direction for rates? Finding bright spots in the fixed income market. Bank of Canada raised overnight ...

Summary Do corporate earnings disappointments signal a weaker economy and easing inflation pressures, which could end this scary market—or are there more twists to come? When we look in detail at last week’s disappointing third-quarter reports from five of the bigges...

Summary With this month's hike, the Federal Reserve would have raised overnight rates by 300 bp while doubling the pace that its balance sheet is shrinking over the past 100 days. The JPMorgan Emerging Market Currency Index stabilized in October after falling by nearly 8.5% in the...