[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets U.S. stock markets continued their rally today, driven largely by positive corporate news and earnings announcements. The major indexes all gained as the chart above shows. The health-care sector led the eight of ten S&P 500 sectors that finished higher on the day. Driving health-care gains was the news from the pharmaceutical …
Corporate Earnings Continue To Impress Investors
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets Another big week of corporate earnings announcements is underway and markets reacted well to positive earnings announcements from companies such as Haliburton (HAL), Netflix (NFLX) and Hasbro (HAS). The S&P 500 gained 0.4% ending the day exactly where we started on April 1st. The continued climb of the markets over the past …
ETFs/Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated Through 04/17/2014
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 365 (last week 344) are hovering in bullish territory. The second report includes only …
One Man’s Opinion: Will The S&P 500 Finish Above 2,000 By Year End?
The recent decline in the stock markets can be characterized as an internal correction as broad averages like the S&P 500 didn’t correct much, said Ed Yardeni, President and Chief Investment Strategist at Yardeni Research. True, NASDAQ had a bigger correction, but if one focuses on the sectors that witnessed sizeable corrections such as biotech and internet stocks, they were …
New ETFs On The Block: ETRACS Monthly Reset 2X Leveraged S&P 500 Total Return ETF (SPLX)
ETRACS, the exchange traded notes (ETN) issuing arm of Swiss banking major UBS AG, has launched a leveraged S&P tracking ETN that resets its holdings every month. The ETRACS Monthly Reset 2X Leveraged S&P 500 Total Return ETN (SPLX) will reflect the monthly compounded 2X, or 200 percent leveraged performance of the S&P 500 Total Return Index. The S&P 500 …
04-18-2014
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For April 18, 2014 ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2014/04/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-04172014/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, April 18, 2014 AFTER A SLOW START, INDEXES PICK UP MOMENTUM [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets During this Holiday shortened week, the major indexes managed a strong comeback …