2014 is turning out to be another significant year for the ETF industry. With 175 new ETFs launched this year so far, the total number of products now stands at 1658, while assets under management have increased to $1.99 trillion. Today we are highlighting two ETFs launched last month that stand out from the…
For 29 days – off the Bullard lows – the S&P 500 closed above its 5-day moving average. As MKM’s Jonathan Krinsky noted last week, this is the longest streak of sustained equity momentum higher in the history of US markets (surpassing the previous record 27 days from 1928). Today (well techncially Friday’s early close)…
Intel Corporation (INTC)—the world’s largest maker of semiconductors—finally rejoined the ranks of dividend raisers after a longhiatus. Starting in the first quarter of 2015, INTC will pay a $0.24 quarterly dividend, up from the $0.225 dividend it has paid since August of 2012. This represents a 7% bump. That’s not too shabby, but as a long-time holder…
As you know the Swiss gold referendum was defeated this Sunday, along with all the other initiatives issues like tax reform and immigration. The metals bears were licking their chops and counting their chickens, and gold and silver both opened sharply lower in overnight futures trading. At one point silver broke the 15 handle and gold…
“Davidson” submits: Oil (USO) (OIL) has been much in the news. Falling prices have resulted in a good number of ‘Collapsing Economy’ predictions. A large number of analysts, too many to count, indicate that US oil production is the reason for a global glut and justifies a collapse in oil company stocks and a rise…
Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” time of the year for many retailers, and if things don’t turn around during the coming weeks we could see a tsunami of store closings in January and February. As you read…
Past performance does not guarantee future performance, as they say, but Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT, editor and publisher of The Daily Gold Premium, is persuaded that the bottom in gold is no more than a couple of months away. And after that, look out. In this interview with The Gold Report, Roy-Byrne says that his study of gold’s history explains…
The annual Las Vegas Blackhat security conference draws great attention from the media as the showpiece for trendy cyber security topics. From its inception in 1997, Blackhat has grown into a global conference series with additional stops in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, and Washington DC. The conference includes the latest researchers from leading security companies such…
While we have focused on the decoupling between US equity markets and their high-yield credit and US Treasury yield peers, today is perhaps most notably for the widening seen in investment-grade credit markets – the most in 2 months – as oil-complex concerns squeeze liquidity across all credits. Notably HYG is under significant pressure also (not helped…
Stocks were slumping today from the open, with (AAPL) having taken a dive, and a few of the major indices with it. There was no particular reason for this fundamentally. My own theory was that the funds were painting the tape with some seriously heavy handed brushstrokes into the end of the month in quiet…
