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 1/15/2012. Continued upward momentum pushed the major indexes higher by less than 1%. With Friday’s downgrade of various European countries, it remains to be seen how the markets will react when Wall Street opens for …
S&P Downgrades Add Further Strain on Europe
Standard and Poor’s didn’t shy away from issuing en masse downgrades to 9 countries in Europe after months of warnings. In other words, Europe is on thin ice and will have to act fast before its unified economic foundation breaks into fragmented pieces. In this week’s video, managing director of sovereign ratings at S&P, John Chambers, presents a breakdown of …
Political Affiliation and Investment Returns – Is There A Link?
With the Republican primary well under way, I’m sure you may be wondering which candidate will be able to revive the U.S. economy and push markets back into bull territory. Over the years, the debate between politics and financial growth has been contentious, questioning whether Democratic or Republican policies are more beneficial for the economy and financial markets. As we …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, January 13, 2012
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2012/01/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-01122012/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, January 13, 2012 WAKE-UP CALL MOVES EQUITY ETFS DOWNWARDS Friday the 13th took on a new meaning as a fear of downgrades with Standard and Poor’s issuing 9 sovereign downgrades in Europe. In what could’ve been a much uglier day, …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 01/12/2012
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, January 12, 2012 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 10/25/2011 The domestic TTI broke through its long-term trend line generating a Sell for this area effective 8/9/2011. Over the recent past, we’ve seen the …
Europe’s Fragile, But Major Market ETFs Don’t Care
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Once again, major market ETFs ended up in the green despite continuing concerns about Europe. Although not a big day by any means as the S&P 500 only rose 0.23%, we’ve seen significantly lower levels of volatility in the market. Without these large swings that were relatively commonplace in October and November last year, it’s certainly …