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The Select Sector SPDR Trust, which offers a family of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that divide the S&P 500 into nine individual sector funds, saw its average monthly assets climb 32 percent, or $10.5 billion, in 2011, further entrenching its position as the largest sector ETF family. Launched in 1998, Read more…
Shah Gilani: You want to know the truth? The truth is that Wall Street has stacked the deck against you. That’s why you need to understand how the game is played. Otherwise you’ll end up a Wall Street patsy. Read more…
David Gillie: No matter what happens, Basic Materials are needed for the job. Whether its flak jackets and gun powder for war, agriculture chemicals and pesticides for farming or coatings and ingredients for pharmaceuticals, Basic Materials are needed. Yes, even embalming chemicals and casket materials Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: The fact that the S&P 500 “did nothing” in 2011 fails to take into account the performance of the individual sectors of the stock market, some of which returned as much as 15% in 2011. Read more…
Since the S&P500 definitively broke support in the 1,250′s in early August of 2011 every rally approaching that key level has Read more…
Ron Rowland: It’s easy to get caught up in recent stock market action. Then there are investment advisors who often go to the other extreme, urging their clients to ignore current events and think “long term.” The correct answer is somewhere in between. Read more…
David Zeiler: The hottest sectors for the third-quarter earnings season, Energy and Materials, should stay on their winning streak through the next quarter, but will get hit by lagging demand from emerging markets in 2012. Read more…
Despite signals from the bond market that there is a 60% chance of recession and little more than promises from European leaders that they are just about to fix their debt and banking crisis, investors have gorged themselves for five-days at a smorgasbord of cyclical treats and a Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What is the broader Sector Rotation Model saying about the current state of the stock market? Let’s take a look from two perspectives: January to October (year to date) and then from the May 2011 peak to present. Read more…
US stock futures are pointing to a sharply lower open this morning following yesterday’s afternoon plunge. S&P futures are currently down about 16 handles as European markets took the cue from the Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: We can expect more volatility (up and down) over the next ten days or so. The Federal Reserve has their annual Jackson Hole conference this week. Ben Bernanke is due to deliver public remarks on Friday. In 2010, the Fed used Jackson Hole as a forum to signal a second round Read more…
Stocks posted strong gains on Thursday but on light trade. Despite Thursday’s significant move equities remain in a wide four day trading range. All five major indices closed higher on the session. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) and the S&P MidCap 400 led the move higher by posting Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may or may not be repetitive. The result is a more manageable list of issues from Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What signals or clues are coming from the broader Sector Rotation Model as we see it in July 2011? Read more…
Any golfer will tell you one of the most common and costly mistakes in the game is not following through with your swing. Any investor will tell you there’s no surer sign of ambivalence than a big rally that gets no follow through. And that’s exactly what Tobias Levkovich, the Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at Citigroup thinks will happen this earnings season. “People are getting excited about Q2 earnings being the Read more…
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