XYLD News and Press, GLOBAL X FDS From 03/07/23

2023-03-07 03:47:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 recovered a large portion of the ground in lost in the trading week ending on 3 March 2023. The CME Group's FedWatch Tool continued to project three consecutive quarter-point rate hikes at the Fed's upcoming 22 March, 3 May and 14 Jun...

2023-03-06 08:10:09 ET Summary Since the start of the pandemic-induced stock market top on February 19, 2020, returns for many conservative asset types have been awful. It has now been over 3 years since then. But despite some occasional rallies, the net result for many go-to stra...

2023-03-06 04:15:00 ET Summary The Q4 2023 S&P 500 EPS growth is still reflecting 10% y.y, and it has not been revised down even though Q1 and Q2 ’23 EPS estimates continue to be revised lower. The Friday, March 10th, 2023 nonfarm payroll report is expecting +210,000 &#...

Summary Stronger economic indicators released over the past month suggest that the economy started the year off solidly with no recession in the near term. After a couple of weak months, consumer spending jumped for January. Continued modestly above-trend economic growth is occurrin...

Summary The beginning of the year always offers a chance to catch up with a broad range of clients who are in the mode of thinking about the big picture outlook: pension funds, insurers, consultants and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. This note r...

Summary As in Led Zeppelin’s famous song, for me, investments in high-dividend securities represent a kind of stairway to heaven. Indeed, their steady flow of money relieves psychological pressure during times of market uncertainty and helps me experience them with greater peace ...

Summary Fourth-quarter results showed consumers balked at higher prices. Together, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft command roughly three-quarters of the cloud market and we find the soft results for all three to be a potential canary in the coal mine for the economy. We expect the foc...

Summary The good news is that rising inflation does not necessarily mean the end of the bull market. The S&P 500 is currently valued at nearly 19x 2023 earnings. Stocks can go higher but in near-term, particularly when it comes to lower quality, volatile names. By Ru...

Summary Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF implements a Covered-Call "Income" Strategy over the Russell 2000. The fund structure extracts expensive fees and high trading costs in return for the promise of monthly dividend income. This dividend income presents itself as forced withdr...

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...