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While the largest tech companies have leapt in price, aggregate earnings for NASDAQ 100 companies have fallen 30% year to date. Before last week’s modest sell-off, the largest five - Apple ( AAPL ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Amazon ( AMZN ), Facebook ( FB ) and Google (Alphabet) ( GOOG , GOO...
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for August was reported at 100.2, which is a 1.4 increase over July's reading. The NFIB report notes seven of the 10 index components increased, while two declined. The Index remains at a high level, a level which was reached following the recession aft...
IHS Markit's PMI surveys indicated a strengthening of global economic growth in August, with a broadening out of the recovery by sector evident. Some important sectors, such as autos, real estate, and households goods, are now among the top performers as the easing of lockdowns from the height...
By Eric Winograd The field is set for the 2020 US presidential election, and markets are turning their focus to November's contest. Historically, political transitions haven't had much impact on the economy and markets. But with the political spectrum and breadth of potential policies wide...
Over the last few months, the markets have become engulfed by a palpable feeling of exuberance. I remember the last time investors were engulfed in a near-"panic" to invest. It was 1998, where following a correction, the market began a seemingly endless run to the peak in 2000. I'm not too f...
It has been a while since Ibbotson's Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation ((SBBI)) data had been seen, since Morningstar bought Ibbotson's practice years ago and moved the SBBI in-house and stopped offering The Handbook to the investing public. The week, the SBBI data somehow wound up attached...
By Sonal Desai, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income The Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study has unveiled many insights about US consumer attitudes and behavior in the wake of COVID-19. Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai examines findings from the surv...
( Source ) Several days after our article " Yes, The Crash Is Coming ", the S&P 500/SPX ( SP500 ), Nasdaq, and stocks in general have gone through some notable corrections. Sky-high valuations, overextended technicals, and other factors finally caught up with the market. So far, it has...
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Market Finally Cracks Over the last few weeks, we have discussed that while the markets were continuing their seemingly " unstoppable" advance, there were many "technical extremes" reached. Here is the problem with watching media headlines rather than paying attention to what is happeni...
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HARTFORD, Conn. , Nov. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The reorganization of Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZF) with and into Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR) has been completed. ZF ceased trading and dissolved as of the close of business on Friday, November ...
HARTFORD, Conn. , Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boards of Directors of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR), Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZF), and Duff & Phelps Select MLP and Midstream Energy Fund Inc. (NYSE: DSE), and the Board of Trus...
HARTFORD, Conn. , Oct. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZF) previously announced the following quarterly distribution on September 25, 2019 : Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution...