XYLD News and Press, GLOBAL X FDS From 02/28/23

Summary The S&P 500 always offers two things at the same time: the chance to make a positive return, and the risk of loss - sometimes major loss. A while back, I created something called the S&P X-Ray, which shows my expected trading ranges over the coming weeks, months and year...

Summary The prospect of higher U.S. interest rates continues to loom large over the markets. The US is in the late stage of the economic cycle. What to expect in a late-stage economy. The prospect of higher U.S. interest rates continues to loom large over the marke...

Summary The S&P 500 (SPX) lost nearly 2.7% of its value during the Presidents' Day holiday-shortened trading week ending on Friday, 24 February 2023. The index closed the week at 3970.04. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tool's projection for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2023...

Summary The S&P 500 has fallen in each of the last three weeks, down just over -4%. Since the market low in October, the S&P 500 Index does remain higher by 11.2%. Incorporating market technicals tends to be helpful in that a wide range of trading activity, including compute...

Summary RYLD is a covered call ETF that yields 13.2% but sacrifices capital appreciation for current income by capping upside potential through selling covered calls. RYLD has been a better investment by the numbers since 2021 compared to XYLD and QYLD. If you are able to reinvest t...

Summary Once upon a time, dividends played a starring role in equity markets—until 14 years of easy money whetted investors’ appetite for risk and created a massive tailwind for unprofitable, long-duration growth stocks. Valuations appear to be attractive: Stocks yielding ...

Summary Occasionally, there are brief episodes of deflation, but these are typically confined to a severe financial crisis or economic crash such as we saw during the Great Depression or following the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. The Austrian economists gave us the true cause of...

Summary There’s a debate over whether or not the S&P 500’s 2022 closing low in October marked the start of a new bull market. From the bear’s perspective, the tepidness of the rally off those October lows stands out. The market may not exactly be following t...

Summary December 2022 was a gloomy month for the expected future of the S&P 500's dividends. The CME Group's S&P 500 quarterly dividend futures projected dividend payouts would decline during the third and fourth quarters of 2023. S&P reports the amount of dividends per ...

Summary At present, we estimate that a market loss of about -30% would be required to restore expected 10-year S&P 500 total returns to the same level as 10-year Treasury bond yields. It is dangerous and almost superstitious to take the bloated profit margins and corporate earnings ...