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A favorable characteristic of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats is this basket of stocks generally holds up better in broader market pullbacks as seen in the below table. Where the entire row is highlighted, it represents a significant market pullback and the Aristocrats outperformed the S&...
Warren Buffett made headlines over the weekend when he disclosed that he had completely sold out of his airline holdings. While some questioned whether he was selling out at the lows, for now at least, he appears to be right. As shown in the chart below, the S&P 500 Airlines Group is curre...
I did not want to spend time anymore on the following COVID-19's exact development after obsessing over the outbreak, and potential implications, since the end of January. Well, that didn't work out. Increasingly, I get the sense that I need to stay up to date on developments because ...
The final week of April 2020 showed the two drivers for the S&P 500 now has. In the first half of the week, the index rose over 103 points from its previous week's closing value to peak at 2,939.51 on Wednesday with the anticipation the Fed would continue providing the support it has, whic...
The advantage of the “forward earnings curve” for the SP 500 is that it fills in the interim periods between calendar year EPS, and provides some concrete – albeit constantly changing – earnings data between the calendar years. Starting from right to left on the a...
By Brian Levitt, Global Market Strategist, North America , and Talley Léger, Senior Investment Strategist In past downturns, how often the market revisited or surpassed bottoms had little impact on future long-term returns. To retest or not to retest - that is the question. Ind...
The Fed is now permanently stuck at zero The negative 4.8% decline in GDP in the first quarter was stunning. Importantly, that reading only encapsulated the impact of the economic "shutdown" in that last two weeks of the quarter. This suggests, considering the entire month of April (1/3rd of...
April was a bounce-back month, with a glaring exception: broadly defined commodities (excluding gold, which rallied sharply). Otherwise, risk assets posted solid gains across the board last month. After March's deep sea of red ink, April dispensed a relief rally in no small degree. The big...
With economies around the world re-opening, it’s time to start thinking about what the post-COVID world will look like. My investment philosophy for navigating macro events is to create a narrative guided by specific, verifiable predictions. Focusing on verifiable information rather...
The volatile swings in crude oil last week sent investor sentiment sharply lower, with only 24.86% of investors reporting as bullish, which was the lowest level of bullish sentiment since the COVID-19 outbreak began. With things calming down in the days since and with equities continuing to gr...
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NEW YORK , Aug. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Direxion continually reviews its product range to ensure it's meeting the needs of our clients. Based upon a recent review, the Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has decided to liquidate and close 15 ETFs (each, a "Fund" and c...