SMLE News and Press, Xtrackers S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF From 12/20/22

Summary U.S. debt levels are more than twice as high today as they were during the economy of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 2022, the Fed raised rates by 425bps, the biggest policy tightening in a single year since 1981. The Fed Funds Futures curve suggests that the Fed will ti...

Summary Inflation continues to moderate, not only here, but also in Europe. Despite the negative economic reports and the reaction to the Fed rate hike, the US Dollar barely budged for the week. Value yet again outperformed Growth in the last week, this time by a spread of almost 1%...

Summary Indices paint an erroneous picture of market health. Market breadth indicators show that there is underlying strength in smaller cap stocks. Find the stocks that are outperforming right now - these will likely lead the market higher when the next bull market inevitably comes...

Summary CPI rose only 0.1% in November and 7.1% in the past 12 months. The monthly CPI was lower than the economists’ consensus expectation of 0.3%, and that triggered a massive bond rally that caused Treasury yields to plummet. The Fed never fights market rates, so even thou...

Summary After a week that saw it rise as high as 4,019.65, the S&P 500 ultimately dropped 2.8% from where it ended the previous week to close at 3,852.36 on Friday. After the Fed's expected half-point rate hike on 14 December 2022, news indicating developing weakness for the U.S. ec...

Summary MoneyTalk’s Greg Bonnell discusses what it means for the economy with Chris Whelan, Senior Canada Rates Strategist at TD Securities. The markets are bracing for what's probably not going to be a wonderful 2023 economically. The market is telling that long-term interes...

Summary Will it be Santa or the Grinch this year? Why is it so vogue to be a bear? The bear's time is running out. Will it be Santa or the Grinch this year? Why is it so vogue to be a bear? Pundits and market strategists alike ratchet estimates down to one-up each othe...

Summary The adaptation and loss-and-damage topics cut straight to the scale and on-the-ground reality of climate-change impacts and the expense of addressing them. A draft of the US government’s Fifth Annual Climate Assessment found that the US, historically the biggest polluter,...

Summary The headline Flash US PMI Composite Output Index registered 44.6 in December, down from 46.4 in November. Jobs growth has meanwhile slowed to a crawl as firms across both manufacturing and services take a much more cautious approach to hiring amid a slump in customer demand. ...

Summary During Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee confab, the Fed speaks – market goes down; journalists ask questions – market goes up. The action here is being done by very sophisticated trading programs employing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. ...