[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets U.S. stocks inched higher as Apple’s (AAPL) strong earnings report proved to be not enough to ease fears over an escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine. The major indexes inched higher as the chart above shows. Notable gainers today were Aetna (AET), who reported its first quarter EPS results of $1.98, beating …
Stocks Pull Back, But Corporate Earnings Continue To Deliver
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets The stock market pulled back today after a solid six consecutive days of gains. The S&P 500 dropped 0.24%, the Dow finished down 0.07% and the Nasdaq led the pack dropping 0.83% on the day. Apple (AAPL) captured headlines today after reporting that it sold 43.7 million iPhones in Q1, which was …
Keep Those Corporate Earnings Reports Coming!!
[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 …
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 …