Consumption spending surprised to the upside once again in August, something we had already seen from last week’s release of retail and food services sales during the same month.
In what represents a positive trend for investors engaged with ETFs such as the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) and the Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM), the AI adoption conversation continues gaining importance and momentum.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $20 billion debt commitment for the record-breaking buyout of Electronic Arts Inc. is classic leveraged financing, which might seem surprising in a world overrun with private credit.
Changing CEOs won’t change the fact that the decision to pursue a merger lies with BNSF and Berkshire. Buffett and his management team are unlikely to be impressed by threats of proxy fights nor shareholder-activist bullies.
For elite receivers, it’s not just about making the catch, it’s about what they do next. The same is true for financial advisors who switch broker-dealers. If you are considering a move, ask yourself: Am I just trying to make the catch? Or am I ready to take off down the field?
Over 60% of small cap investors use passive funds, but we strongly believe this is a missed opportunity, as small caps have consistently been one of the most reliable sources of alpha available in the public markets.
While it may seem that way at extremes, momentum tends to exhaust, and reversals or corrections become more probable. The RSI gives us a real-time gauge of when a trend may be vulnerable to a pullback or turn.
The latest read on the US labor market will be out this Friday, October 3, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases September nonfarm payrolls, unemployment, average hourly earnings and other metrics.
Always intense, the perennial debate over whether equities are too richly valued has become even more fervent of late.
Will Rhind, Founder & CEO of GraniteShares, dives into their YieldBOOST lineup of ETFs and offers perspective on the growing demand for options-based ETF strategies overall. Zeno Mercer, Senior Research Analyst at VettaFi, breaks down one of the hottest segments in the market: artificial intelligence ETFs. He covers fund flows, performance trends, and the key drivers behind investor interest.
Though solar is now a boogeyman in the culture wars, the truth is that it is both among the cheapest forms of energy (even without subsidies) and one of the fastest segments of the energy industry to bring additional capacity onto the grid. We believe solar and wind will continue to be an important component of the American energy supply.
Scripts are a great start but the end goal is to rip them up and own your voice — because that’s the only part of the client experience no firm can dictate, and the only part that truly builds trust.
To see real results, your content must be relevant to the people you want to reach, consistent enough to build familiarity, and valuable enough to earn trust. Done right, it becomes the foundation of your marketing strategy and a long-term driver of growth.
European stocks were set to wrap up September with the best performance since 2019, as optimism around resilient US economic growth and lower interest rates lifted risk appetite.
Sometime in the coming months, the impact of US tariffs will begin to be felt in India — and it will not be pretty.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the latest issuer attempting to fit private credit assets into a retail-friendly exchange-traded fund vehicle.
The Fed's extraordinary stimulus since the pandemic has fueled one of the broadest waves of speculation in history, from expensive equity valuations, historically tight credit spreads, and the ongoing bubble in cryptocurrencies, all pointing to excess liquidity.
JFLX charges a 45 basis point net fee for its investors. The strategy, per its prospectus, is empowered to invest across the debt spectrum. Its managers can shift its active strategy toward markets or sectors as market conditions change.
Back in the day, the arrival of the postman was a big deal. E-mail and texting existed only in the dreams of technologists, so people communicated with one another by writing letters.
Even as rate cuts occupy center stage in the 24-hour financial news cycle, surprise inflation could strike anytime. In the current macro environment, inflation could stem from the constant wildcard of tariff policy.
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Economic data are all over the place. GDP keeps growing in spite of signs of weakness in the labor market. Tariff policy is volatile, immigration has slowed, monetary policy tightened in 2023-24, with the M2 measure of money declining and “real” short-term interest rates consistently higher than at any time since 2010.
On this week’s edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist and Head of Canadian Strategy, BeiChen Lin, assessed the health of the U.S. economy. He also explained why the Swiss National Bank held the line on monetary policy and discussed the potential market impacts of a U.S. government shutdown.
Goodbye summer, hello fall! As the sun sets on another season, we’re swapping beach days and backyard barbeques for crisp mornings, vibrant foliage, football weekends, and everything pumpkin spice.
As expected, the Federal Reserve cut its policy rate on Sept. 17 by a quarter of a percentage point. Officials had signaled the move in advance and Chair Jerome Powell explained the reasoning well enough.
My reasons are simple. The debt pile is unfathomably massive, and it’s accelerating. Fiscal imbalances are widening, and monetary policy is being constrained. The Fed can’t raise rates aggressively without bankrupting the government, but it also can’t make deep cuts without tanking the dollar.
For an industry that’s only just getting started, there’s a lot of hype around humanoid robots.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow central bankers are stuck between a rock and a hard place – and he knows it.
VettaFi’s Head of Research Todd Rosenbluth discussed the Fidelity Investment Grade Securitized ETF (FSEC) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe of “Money Life.”
When the next crash comes, inevitably there will be an uproar. Baby boomers must not wait for that uproar. They need to get out of their TDFs now and move to the safety of T-bills and TIPS, following the guidance of academic theory. That’s just the smart thing to do.
Financial planners perform a valuable service by discussing with married clients what will happen if the income of one of them disappears upon death. But the focus should be on the adequacy of the remaining income to the spending needs of the survivor — not the change in tax rate from married to single.
Some Wall Street pundits believe that the recent Fed rate cut makes its policy too accommodative, and they also argue that the Fed is creating a “Goldilocks” scenario for the stock market. To better gauge where policy lies on the accommodative to restrictive spectrum, it's critical to compare the policy to current economic growth and inflation rates.
It’s not all bad news for the the UK stock market. AstraZeneca Plc has found a clever way of becoming a US-listed company without going all-American.
Many advisors avoid allocating to inflation-protecting equities, fearing the age-old rule that protection comes at a price. However, my recent research with my colleagues Giovanni Bruno and Ben Luyten at Scientific Beta suggests this industry-wide fear is unfounded: Inflation-hedging stocks perform just as well as their inflation-sensitive peers.
I take Jerome Powell at his word when he says that he and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve are determined to get inflation back to its 2% target.
Too little attention was paid at the start of the decade to the likely hangover from a heady cocktail of cutting interest rates close to zero and increased bond buying via quantitative easing — at the same time as governments delivered a bucketload of fiscal stimulus.
Wall Street’s most powerful collection of stocks, the Magnificent Seven, is looking a tad dated. Make way for the Great Eight. Or maybe the Golden Dozen. Or the TenAI of GenAI.
US stocks rose on Monday, as investors shrugged off the risks of a US government shutdown and turned their attention to economic data that may offer more insight about the pace of future interest-rate cuts.
There’s small change and big change. The small ones are notable: recessions, market crashes, etc. You’ll see several in your lifetime. The greater changes tend to be technology-driven: the Industrial Revolution, the internet, and now maybe artificial intelligence, robotics, and what I’ve called the Age of Transformation.
While the market is betting on an economic revival to support current valuation levels, the real economy is suggesting things are slowing down. Notably, the evidence isn’t coming from obscure corners. It’s showing up in the indicators designed to give us a heads-up before a storm arrives.
BLS and ADP jobs reports often diverge, creating mixed signals. Traders need to know why this happens, and how to use these reports to spot risks, opportunities, and mispricing.
Last week’s economic data presented a sharp contradiction between a resilient U.S. economy and increasingly concerned American households.
Investors are increasingly confident that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates several times through mid-2026, signaling a more aggressive easing cycle.
The Federal Reserve (Fed) delivered a highly anticipated 0.25% interest rate cut during its September 16-17 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.
In this video, Chuck Carnevale, co-founder of FAST Graphs, takes a deep dive into what he calls the single most important factor for long-term investing success: the ability to forecast future earnings growth. While past performance matters, it’s really what lies ahead that determines whether a stock will generate wealth or disappointment.
Precious and industrial metals have experienced volatility in recent weeks: gold has surged past $3,700 to reach a new all-time high, silver has climbed to $44 per ounce (its highest level since 2011), and platinum is trading at multiyear highs.
The healthcare sector has certainly been fraught with a myriad of challenges this year, but weakness in the sector could have investors looking for value-oriented plays. That, in turn, could positively affect value-focused funds like the VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF (VFLO).
Artificial intelligence is becoming more ingrained in our daily lives-but not everywhere.
This article breaks down five key altcoins — Ethereum, Solana, Ripple (XRP), Litecoin, and one emerging name — that financial advisors should have on their radar.
