[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US equities ended mixed Monday despite higher corporate earnings and better-than-estimated retail sales boosting sentiments as investors weighed US economic data with a contagion possibility in Europe. Heavy selling in the tech area more than offset a rebound in blue-chip stocks, dragging the major US indices down. Yield on benchmark 10-year Treasuries consolidated below the 2-percent …
ETFs/Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated Through 4/13/2012
Below are the latest ETF Cutline reports, which show how far above or below their respective long-term trend lines (39 week SMA) my currently tracked ETFs/MFs are positioned. The first report covers the ETF Master List from Thursday’s StatSheet and includes 398 ETFs, of which currently 316 (last week 326) of them are hovering in bullish territory. The second report …
Last Week In Review: ETF News And Blog Posts To 4/15/2012
In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the ETF topics and market reviews I posted to my blog during the week ending on 4/15/2012. Disappointment from the jobs report did indeed affect last Monday’s trading, as the spillover effect kicked in and took the starch out of any remaining upward momentum. Despite the 2-day rally on Wednesday and …
Is The US Economy Heading Towards A Recession? The Bears Certainly Think So
The latest US jobs data has brought the bears out in full force. And Gary Shilling, president of A. Gary & Co, is certainly no exception. Gary thinks the US recovery has primarily been driven by consumer spending as there has been a mini spending spree over the last few months. Though incomes rose slower than expenses, it looked earlier …
Taking Stock: The PIMCO Total Return ETF
Mutual funds behemoth PIMCO created quite a flutter at the beginning of March when it announced launching the ETF version of its Total Return Fund, now trading under the ticker symbol BOND. The fund had generated a lot of interest from the investor community, securing $340 million in assets in the first month of its launch. Despite its relatively higher …
04-13-2012
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, April 13, 2012 ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2012/04/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-04122012/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, April 13, 2012 US Stocks Fall On China Slowdown And Europe Worries; GAZ Rises, EWI Sinks Following a two-day rally, US stocks retreated Friday with the broad market indices posting …