After enduring turmoil in China and growth worries in Europe, emerging markets managed to get on its feet lately, as evidenced by the performance of different EM indices. That didn’t go unnoticed by Ohio-based Victory Capital, which recently launched a strategic beta fund focused on emerging markets. The Victory CEMP Emerging Market Volatility Weighted Index ETF (CEZ) is the firm’s …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For April 29, 2016
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- https://theetfbully.com/2016/04/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-04282016/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary RUNNING OUT OF STEAM [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets Coming off one of the worst day for stocks since early February, domestic shares were under pressure again today. Investors have been reacting to mixed earnings reports and maybe, just maybe, the realization is sinking in that the …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 04/28/2016
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, April 28, 2016 If you are not familiar with some of the terminology used, please see the Glossary of Terms. 1. DOMESTIC EQUITY MUTUAL FUNDS/ETFs: BUY — since 4/4/2016 Our main directional indicator, the Domestic Trend Tracking Index (TTI-green line in above chart) has recently crawled above its long term trend line (red) …
BoJ “Holds” and Wall Street “Folds;” Icahn Spooks Markets
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets The major indexes had not much too cheer about during the regular session, which started on a bad omen from Japan with the BoJ surprising world markets by capping their monetary stimulus, which was expected to continue with full force. As we all know by now, without central bank stimulus, equity markets …
Fed Holds Steady—Facebook Beats And Rips In After Hours Session
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets As was to be expected, the Fed held interest rates steady for the third consecutive meeting. The FOMC statement was neutral and contained the usual language of “assessing economic and labor conditions, inflationary pressures and expectations along with readings on financial and international developments before determining the size of future interest rate …
A Mixed Day, But: Apple Tumbles 8% In After Hours Trading; Twitter Crashes 14%
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets It was a fairly quiet day during the regular session despite a host of economic data points that can be summed up with one word: dismal. But none of that matters in a centrally planned economy where fundamentals are immaterial and where Wall Street hangs on to every new utterance by the …