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US Stocks Likely To Open Weaker As Investors Eye Alphabet, AMD And Pfizer Earnings: Expert Says Won't Be 'Surprised' If Earnings Exceed Wall Street Expectations
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 7:42am | 1268U.S. stocks could see a weak opening on Tuesday after the averages registered a mixed last week. While the S&P 500 and Dow Jones snapped their six-week winning streak, the Nasdaq Composite chalked its seventh straight week of gains. Earning news flow will continue to pick up momentum in the...
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Inflation Is 'Becoming Boring Again' As Numbers Are 'Right On Target': Economists
Friday, August 30, 2024 - 11:02am | 648Friday’s report on inflation indicated that prices are beginning to moderate as consumer spending continues to exceed expectations and the economy remains resilient, according to economists. “This is a double dose of good news on inflation and economic growth. Inflation prints are...
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Stock Market's 'Frightful Yet Fulfilling' Q1 Performance: What Does It Mean For The Rest Of 2024?
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 2:02am | 783The stock market’s robust performance in the first quarter of 2024 has investors on edge, with experts predicting a potentially “frightful yet fulfilling” year-end. What Happened: The S&P 500 is on course for a nearly 10% price gain in the first quarter, with a staggering 30%...
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Not Likely To Fall Into A Recession This Year' Says CFRA Research Chief Investment Strategist Sam Stovall
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 - 7:53pm | 368Sam Stovall, the chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, believes the U.S. will see a 1% growth in GDP on Thursday. “We’re going to find out on Thursday whether we do end up with a second consecutive decline in GDP growth. Our belief is that we’re going to see...
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A Growth ETF For October
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 8:19am | 553Among individual investment factors, growth is proving sturdy this year. While some investors are waiting on a value resurgence, the iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF (NYSE: IVW) is up more than 19 percent year to date, well ahead of the S&P 500. IVW, which tracks the S&P 500 Growth Index, has...
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Bank ETFs Could Disappoint
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 3:24pm | 430When it comes to sector-level bets on rising interest rates, many investors believe the best place to go is to financial services. Indeed, the second-largest sector weight in the S&P 500 is home to some industries that are positively correlated to rising Treasury yields. Insurance providers and...
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Materials Mavens: Sector ETFs To Embrace
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 10:26am | 529Underscoring this year's renaissance in cyclical sectors, the Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB) is up more than 15 percent, a showing that is good for third among the sector SPDR exchange-traded funds. The two SPDRs outpacing XLB this year are cyclical funds, those tracking the energy...
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Second-Half ETF Ideas
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 2:36pm | 503Past performance is never a guarantee of future returns, but some of the exchange-traded funds that delivered for investors in the first half of the year could continue doing so in the second half. What worked for investors in the first half of 2016 includes, most notably, fixed income and gold...
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Warm Up With This Low Volatility ETF
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 10:41am | 603Low volatility exchange-traded funds are doing what they are supposed to do this year. With the S&P 500 down 5 percent to start 2016, low volatility ETFs, such as the iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility ETF (iShares Trust (NYSE: USMV)), are proving notably less worse than the broader market....
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An Inexpensive Small-Cap ETF For December Gains
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 3:44pm | 654Tuesday marks the start of December, and with the arrival of the last month of the year imminent, there has been plenty of chatter about the seasonal efficacy of small-cap stocks and corresponding exchange-traded funds. Of course, it is the January Effect that spurs increased small-cap chatter at...
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Going Shopping With Consumer Discretionary ETFs
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 2:49pm | 653The healthcare sector has rebounded enough in recent days to put the Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLV) back into the group of two sector SPDR exchange-traded funds that are sporting year-to-date gains. In the case of XLV, that ETF's 2015 gains are modest at 1.1 percent heading into Tuesday...
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Fed's Tougher Task Shouldn't Knock Investors Off Target
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 12:55pm | 1332The Federal Reserve faces a tougher task than usual when it pulls up around the conference table this week. The challenge of the Fed’s next chapter extends to long-term investors who’ve spent the better part of the year thinking and rethinking the next course for interest rates and...
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Health Care Sector Surges: Not Just For Playing Defense?
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 4:05pm | 867The health care sector is no longer just a corner of the stock market for investors to play defense. This category has chalked up the best performance in the S&P 500 index (SPX) year to date, climbing 9.2% through May 22 (versus a 3.3% gain for the S&P 500). Plus, it’s been the...
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S&P Capital IQ Analyst: Twitter Results Are Causing People To Scratch Their Heads
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 2:28pm | 391Stock of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) plummeted heavily on Tuesday on back of the online leak of the company's quarterly results and the revenue and guidance coming in worse than expectations. Revenue for the quarter came at $436 million, while analysts were expecting $456.8 million. Sam...
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S&P's Sam Stovall - Looking For Gains Here & in 2011
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 1:36pm | 355Sam Stovall, the chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor is mildly bullish. He was on Nightly Business Report last night. The investment committee at S&P, in which Stovall sits on, recently raised the 12 month target for the 500, and is looking for a double-digit gain about a year...