SPLX News and Press, ETRACS Monthly Reset 2xLeveraged S&P 500 Total Return ETN From 04/04/23

2023-04-04 03:30:00 ET Summary This banking crisis may be past its peak, but the bad news is that it is surely not over as there is a flight of deposits out of banks and into money market mutual funds that SVB’s failure simply accelerated. The differing effect on inflation ...

2023-04-04 03:08:00 ET Summary Why the banking sector fallout may require a more sober second look. What the next stage of this late-stage economic cycle might look like. Amid banking fears, are mortgages the next domino to fall? Recent fears about the bankin...

2023-04-04 03:05:00 ET Summary Many of last winter’s biggest worries don’t look so bad in the spring. The few big bank failures didn’t explode into a massive bank run. The solution to un-stressing the banking system is simple: the Fed has to un-invert the Trea...

2023-04-04 02:30:00 ET Summary Markets are liquidity junkies and repeatedly anticipate that central banks will pause and return to easing credit conditions. Equities historically don’t bottom until after a recession is recognized and central banks near the end of easing eff...

2023-04-04 01:26:00 ET Summary Financial system challenges may be reflected in a rising unemployment rate during the second half of 2023. In the currency world, central bank policies are shifting, but not in a synchronized manner. Risk management is at the forefront in this un...

2023-04-03 18:41:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 closed out the first quarter of 2023 on a high note, rising 1.4% on Friday, 31 March 2023 to end the week up by 3.5% from its previous week's close. Reports of cooling inflation as measured by Personal Consumption Expenditures on Frid...

2023-04-03 18:04:00 ET Summary The Dogs of the Dow strategy has the sole focus of investing in the highest dividend-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. Out of the quarter's 7.5% return for the S&P 500 Index, 5.4 percentage points were contributed by the ...

2023-04-03 14:14:00 ET Summary Expectations coming into the year were that rates would peak in the spring at around 5% and then fall in the second half of the year to about 4.5%. Real estate stocks rebounded last week to cut their losses for the month to less than 2%. The asset cl...

2023-04-03 13:10:00 ET Summary The first quarter of 2023 was viewed as victory for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite gaining +18.6% from the beginning of 2023. Many market prognosticators believe a new market phase will be led by different stocks than in the past. Fo...

2023-04-03 13:06:00 ET Summary As we head into the second quarter of the year, markets are showing some resilience. For much of March, we were looking at apparently bearish patterns in major indexes, with the DJIA and the Russell 2000 on the edge of a breakdown. Even if our lo...