USLB News and Press, Invesco Russell 1000 Low Beta Equal Weight ETF From 03/16/23

2023-03-16 23:56:00 ET Summary This week’s chart of the week shows how the standard credit cycle operates and the way the borrowing booms and busts across time. Credit risk isn’t just creeping up on us. It punched everyone in the face this week. And it is likely to g...

2023-03-16 23:29:00 ET Summary The recent disarray in the banking system appears to have caused fundamental changes to the near-term course of the economy. The expected recession is now more likely and will probably occur sooner. As the economy slows sooner, inflation may move...

2023-03-16 21:41:00 ET Summary Real Personal Income and Retail Sales have been holding at recent highs despite voluminous calls for recession and claims that consumers have pulled back spending. We should be surprised that post-lockdown spending has held up as well as it has and s...

2023-03-16 12:00:00 ET Summary Return volatility has a periodic tendency to cluster and also cycles from high to low and back again through time. Market volatility has recently spiked and briefly clustered but has been sliding over the last several weeks and is currently approachi...

2023-03-16 09:53:08 ET Summary Interest rates have risen quite a bit over the past year, and the Federal Reserve looks set to continue that trend to combat inflation. Already, however, we are seeing significant signs that inflation is dying down, with some of the decline not havin...

2023-03-16 06:58:31 ET Summary A slowly cooling inflationary environment may not be enough for the economy to avoid further rate hikes in March. Increasing pressure on the banking system has culminated in the failures of institutions such as Silicon Valley Bank. Significant up...

2023-03-16 05:30:00 ET Summary The Fed finally broke something. Prudence would argue for a less-hawkish stance on the part of the Fed. We’ve been this way before. scared/panicky, but it is not the end of the world. So, now what? Preamble I composed...

2023-03-16 05:05:00 ET Summary Over the past week, investors have had to digest U.S. banking failures and the threatened collapse of a major European bank. This stress has finally underscored the tensions between global central banks’ efforts to tame inflation and growing c...

2023-03-16 01:17:00 ET Summary The biggest story of 2023 is not a function of if the Fed will pause and then pivot to rate cuts. Instead, it's a matter of when will this shift take place. The inversion of the yield curve is a perfect predictor of an upcoming recession, but the inv...

2023-03-16 00:30:00 ET Summary The New York Fed’s Empire Manufacturing report indicated a significant deterioration in the region’s manufacturing sector. New Orders and Shipments both saw double-digit declines into bottom decile readings. Inventory expectations s...