XITK News and Press, SPDR FactSet Innovative Technology From 01/08/20

By Jonathan Curtis, Vice President, Research Analyst, Franklin Equity Group ® Franklin Equity Group's Jonathan Curtis explains why he thinks businesses will need to invest significantly more in digital technology in the coming years to better understand and service their customers...

It's getting to be a familiar theme. As with last year's event, some of the most interesting announcements from this year's CES in Las Vegas are focused around PCs. In fact, this year, there are probably more PC developments from a wider variety of vendors than we've seen in quite some time. F...

At CES 2020, experts from IHS Markit expect to see a wide-range of companies from automakers and traditional industry suppliers to start-ups and mega technology firms touting their newest ideas, concepts, and production-ready innovations - all with the aim of reinventing what the automobile is...

The NYSE Arca Computer Hardware Index is ending the year up 41% , below the nearly 48% for the S&P 500. More news on: Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated, Xerox Holdings Corporation, Apple Inc., Tech stocks news, Stocks on the move, News on ETFs Read more ...

SPDR FactSet Innovative Technology ETF (NYSEARCA: XITK ) - $0.1604 . More news on: SPDR Series Trust - SPDR FactSet Innovative Technology ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, , Read more ...

There have been some very interesting shifts and evolutions happening in the enterprise computing world over the last several years. It all started, of course, with the explosion of interest in cloud-based computing, as pioneered by Amazon's (AMZN) Web Services ((AWS)) and then quickly followe...

Oscar Pulido: It was the bubble to rival all bubbles. In March of 2000, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Stock Index hit its dot-com era peak. It rose from under 1,000 in 1995 to over 5,000 just five years later. But by the fall of 2002, it was nearly all gone, along with many of the once high-flying d...

Question: Why are there so many ETFs? Answer: ETF providers tend to make lots of money on each ETF so they create more products to sell. The large number of ETFs has little to do with serving your best interests. Below are three red flags you can use to avoid the worst ETFs: 1. Inadeq...

Smartphone Market Will Decline 3.2% in 2019; Share of 5G-Capable Phones to Increase to 56% by 2023 Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - will decline 3.7%, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc.Gartner estimates there are more than 5 billion mobile ph...

Given the recent volatility, investors may be wary of tech. Not so fast, Russ explains. Despite an abrupt and punishing market swoon that disproportionately punished more volatile sectors, technology is holding its own. During the past month, the sector has outperformed by roughly 100 basi...