XNTK News and Press, SPDR NYSE Technology From 08/17/23

2023-08-17 13:50:00 ET Summary Earnings have been stagnating, and this past quarter, they came in better than feared. Heading into this season, I was paying very close attention to if companies are able to keep and maybe even grow their margins, and the answer is yes. Looking ...

2023-08-14 22:35:00 ET Summary While we have not made new highs on the 10-year Treasury yield for 2023, closing on Friday at 4.167%, we are too close for comfort on the bond yield front. Unlike 2022, the stock market – and the tech sector in particular – had been ign...

2023-08-10 22:45:00 ET Summary Joe Biden has signed an executive order restricting U.S. private equity and venture capital investment in Chinese companies from sensitive sectors like microchips and AI. The move, along with similar steps over the last year, is increasingly scaring ...

2023-08-08 17:09:10 ET Summary QTEC provides equal-weight exposure to Technology companies in the Nasdaq-100 Index. A key drawback is its 0.57% expense ratio, but QTEC's long-term track record is solid. This article evaluates QTEC's annual returns alongside 17 other Technology ETF...

2023-08-01 03:35:00 ET Summary As we think about this year, I think one of the things that we need to be mindful of is this idea of this is still an economic environment that is still under pressure from exceptionally fast tightening and monitory policy. This year, we've seen not ...

2023-07-29 01:54:00 ET Summary While tech companies continue to grind higher on a surge of enthusiasm for all things related to artificial intelligence, relative performance has shifted. A Bloomberg consensus of 2023 U.S. gross domestic product forecasts has growth at 1.3%, a sign...

2023-07-28 05:00:00 ET Summary The Technology industry has surged in 2023, led by the dominant tech giants known as the "Magnificent Seven," increasing concentration risks for cap-weighted indexes. Regulated Investment Companies (RICs) are subject to security concentration limits,...

2023-07-28 00:00:00 ET Summary The current environment looks favorable for equity market neutral, global macro and insurance-linked securities, according to K2 Advisors. Single stock correlations are low on a historical basis, suggesting a favorable environment for equity market-n...

2023-07-26 11:50:00 ET Summary While Q1 2023 ended with the banking instability threatening to erase market gains, U.S. equity markets recovered, and the Syntax US 500 Large Cap Index rose 8.9 % in Q2, driven predominantly by an AI-induced rally. Cooling inflation numbers and expe...

2023-07-25 01:30:00 ET Summary Why the stock market gains we're seeing may not be telling the whole story. Investors may have been too focused on market capitalization in the first half. Finding opportunities in the healthcare sector. The strong market performance ...