XHS News and Press, SPDR S&P Health Care Services From 02/15/22

During COVID-19 pandemics trade in pharmaceutical products significantly increased despite a considerable drop in international trade as a whole. World exports of pharmaceuticals are geographically concentrated, which can be attributed to the spatial distribution of the largest pharma...

The goal of the DDM is to quickly and easily utilize available resources of an asset to understand what the intrinsic value of that asset is based on certain market and company expectations. If the required return component of the equation rises without expectations of higher company ...

The anticipated end of the pandemic causes volatility because a transition phase will be priced as a new rotation from, for example, defensive staples to healthcare. Healthcare ETFs can add a defense to a portfolio that is overweight cyclicals, energy, and financials. US Airlines ...

Agriculture really hasn’t changed in 12,000 years. Part of the reason for that is we just didn’t have enough technology. There are different types of technologies, some within the realm of artificial intelligence but certainly also in robotics, that can now take bits of ...

At the end of 2019, had we been told that a two-year pandemic was about to begin, we would have found it impossible to predict the set of returns that followed in subsequent years. Historically, “tightening,” or “over-tightening,” policy was about corrallin...

SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF (NYSEARCA:XHS) - $0.0700. 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.13% as of Dec. 16. Payable Dec 23; for shareholders of record Dec 21; ex-div Dec 20. For further details see: SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.0700

Aeta: We know the transmissibility is higher for the omicron variant and will impact vaccine efficacy, but anecdotal hospital reports suggest that it milder. Aeta: Health care is having a solid year but is still lagging the market, as cyclicals are outperforming due to the strong econ...

While inflation was at first believed to be transitory, it is now beginning to look persistent. Biotech stocks are close to 6.5% of the Russell 2000 Value Index benchmark, and only a few have earnings and positive cash flows. We also think the outlook is rosy for small-cap value i...

With each new outbreak and variant, comes new fears, government lockdowns and hopes for recovery through science and medicine in the form of effective vaccines. Until recently, investor mindsets had shifted to a “living with COVID-19” mentality, supported by abundant sti...

The latest IHS Markit US Sector PMI revealed that six of the seven broad sectors tracked by the surveys reported higher output in November. Despite some of the supply chain problems having eased in November, the extent to which production growth had been constrained is consistent with...