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2023-05-30 12:00:00 ET Summary The traditional 60%/40% portfolio has definitely felt a drag from the bond side of the equation. Expected tech sector EPS growth remains pretty punk for 2023, even after Nvidia’s earnings last week. Technology as a sector does better when ...
2023-05-30 04:38:00 ET Summary The relationship between the copper price and the S&P 500 Index can be described as one of generally positive correlation, with divergent movements at times. The performance difference since early April, with the copper price moving downward to a...
2023-05-27 02:25:00 ET Summary The US stock market is having itself a pretty decent year so far in 2023, all things considered. This week we focus on another unusual characteristic of the stock market – the extreme narrowness of outperformance, dominated almost exclusively ...
2023-05-26 22:14:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 has been closing in on new 52-week highs as the index gains another 1.3% heading into the long weekend. Indicating what has broadly been mediocre breadth at best, the only two sectors with relative strength lines that are currently mo...
2023-03-18 02:14:07 ET Summary High frequency indicators can give us a nearly up-to-the-moment view of the economy. The metrics are divided into long leading, short leading, and coincident indicators. Several important coincident indicators - tax withholding and temporary staf...
2023-03-18 01:20:49 ET Summary The recent weakness in the banking system demonstrates just how fragile it is. We have yet to see the full impact of higher interest rates in the economy, but earnings have already started to decline. The market's earnings expectations for the S&...
2023-03-15 00:30:00 ET Summary Small businesses continue to report some of the worst sentiment of the past decade with the February reading right back in line with the April 2020 low. Plans to increase employment remain healthy in the 77th percentile. Most firms report now as ...
2023-03-11 02:24:27 ET Summary The Fed “pivot” which is “higher for longer” and the implications. We believe that the Fed is well aware of the need for a continued hiking process and therefore staying “higher for longer”. Volatility mo...
Summary For the month of February, the S&P 500 Total Return Index ended down -2.4%. What disrupted the January rally? During the month, we received some affirming data that the economy may be on firmer footing than economists previously thought. But markets are worried that such str...
Summary The National Bureau of Economic Research takes time to define periods of economic expansion and contraction - and they do so in hindsight; equity markets are not trading based on these characterizations. The low degree of difference between the S&P 500 Index and the WisdomTr...
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iShares today announced its plans to close the following U.S.-listed ETFs on November 2, 2023. The funds will cease trading and no longer accept creation or redemption orders after market close on October 30, 2023. Proceeds of the liquidation are currently scheduled to be sent to shareholders...
All alpha-seeking active ETFs will be BlackRock branded and all index-based ETFs will remain iShares branded BlackRock’s commitment to helping clients build better financial futures is underscored today in the renaming of three alpha-seeking, actively managed exch...