By Kevin Nicholson, CFA, Global Fixed Income Co-CIO, Co-Head of Investment Committee SUMMARY We believe the Fed is still on investors’ side; monetary policy historically takes a year to 18 months to impact the economy. We believe the trend is still investors’ friend globally, and particularly in the US. Investor sentiment is neither too optimistic [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The digitization of the developing world is now reaching an inflection point. The unique innovation born in Silicon Valley has spread, been adapted, and now reached maturity where unicorns from all corners of the developing world are going public. In the upcoming webcast, Emerging Markets 2022 Outlook & The Coming IPO Wave, Kevin T. Carter, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
With consumer prices spiking and eroding the worth of the dollar, investors are turning to inflation-linked exchange traded funds strategies that help preserve their purchasing power. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, commodities, and real estate investment trusts are among the most popular inflation hedging ETF categories, the Financial Times reports. “We expect inflation to remain elevated in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The Omicron variant re-asserted the strength of biotech equities, making the Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3x Shares (LABU) an option for traders. As investors turned up the risk dial, COVID-19 cases ticked up towards the end of the year, and now with the new variant, they can provide an attractive option for a short-term [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
With bitcoin slipping below $50,000 recently, futures-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) like the Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BTF) will be able to purchase the leading cryptocurrency as it dips and exhibits “backwardation.” Backwardation refers to a market condition in which future contract prices on a commodities exchange are lower than short-term prices. In essence, markets are expecting [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Bitcoin’s most recent losses have put it relatively even with prices from the beginning of October and a far cry from recent November highs. While investors with spot bitcoin exposure might have lost a lot, it’s the crypto miners who are paying the price in market capitalization. Prices on Monday of around $46,000 for bitcoin [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The Goldman Sachs Future Health Care Equity ETF (GDOC) debuted last month as the newest addition to an expanding realm of exchange traded funds focusing on disruptive healthcare concepts. That could amount to good timing for the rookie ETF because the coronavirus pandemic shined a light on the importance of evolving healthcare services and treatments. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the SDOG ETF (Symbol: SDOG) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $52.67, changing hands as high as $52.81 per share. SDOG shares are currently trading up about 1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of SDOG sh
Among investment factors, the growth/value debate played out again in 2021. That’s likely to be the case again in 2022. Growth and value usually command the bulk of factor-related headlines, but investors shouldn’t sleep on the quality factor. Baskets of quality stocks are accessible via an array of exchange traded funds, such as the Invesco [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the BBJP ETF (Symbol: BBJP) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $57.41, changing hands as high as $57.50 per share. BBJP shares are currently trading up about 1.7% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of BBJP
U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds jumped toward the end of Wednesday after the Federal Reserve stated that it will begin easing back from pandemic accommodative measures in response to rising inflationary pressures. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP), which follows the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index (EWI), rose 0.9% on Wednesday, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Investors should only trust the data and not the interpretations of vague and ambiguous information. Instead, one can turn to a rules-based exchange traded fund portfolio that seeks to unearth a new source of outperformance in any investment universe. In the recent webcast, Moneyball Investing: Trust the Data, Not the Behavior, New Age Alpha’s co-founder [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
You might be a seasoned veteran of ETF conferences, but you’ve never been to one that’s quite like Exchange. Taking place February 13th through the 16th, 2022, Exchange is primed to redefine what a conference can be. Here are five things that are going to set Exchange apart. No Panels. Seriously. The last thing you [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
“Transitory” was not a word generally associated with investing until the Fed started to use it to describe its recent forecasts for inflation. So far, the Fed’s forecasts have proven incorrect as inflation has been higher for longer than the Fed anticipated, and they have decided to drop the word from their communication. But, the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
There are a wide range of strategies and securities available for advisors to manage the risk/return potential of their portfolios, but perhaps the least understood are preferred stocks and convertible bonds. A Breakdown of Convertible Bonds A convertible bond is a fixed income security that work just like regular corporate bonds but can be converted [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
I’ll be honest, I was planning on writing up a “year in review” kind of piece, as I’ve done pretty much every year for the last decade, but the reality is that too much happened this year, and I already write long, so I’m going to break it up this time. First, let’s look at [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
A look at the weighted underlying holdings of the Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF (XSMO) shows an impressive 10.9% of holdings on a weighted basis have experienced insider buying within the past six months.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co (Symbol: ANF), which makes up 1.45% o
In recent trading, shares of SPX Flow Inc (Symbol: FLOW) have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $86.33, changing hands for $86.36/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade on valuati
In recent trading, shares of Lumentum Holdings Inc (Symbol: LITE) have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $100.77, changing hands for $102.59/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade