Recent Commentaries tagged (iwm)
ETF Rewind – Bond Smackdown | Week 5 | 02.03.12
The bond complex took it on the chin as equities screamed higher into broad short-term overbought territory. Inspired by the Jobs report, the S&P 500 (SPY) finished a full +2.1% higher, while Twenty-Year U.S. Treasuries (TLT) were conversely taken down by roughly -1.0%. The small-cap focused Russ...
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Tags: etfs | calendars-economic-reporting | etf | iwm | spy | tlt
Are Portfolio Managers Too Cautious? - Real...
Bloomberg has an interesting article today titled "U.S. Stocks in Longest Valuation Slump Since Nixon." Written by Inyoung Hwang and Whitney Kisling, the piece highlights the fact that the S&P 500 hasn't traded above its long-run 16.4 mean P/E ratio for 446 days, which is the longest stretch sinc...
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Tags: real-time-insight | comp | dia | iwm | spx | spy | etfs
ETF Rewind – Dollar Pullback | Week 4 | 01.27.12
Equities took an expected breather last week, but ultimately leaving the S&P 500 (SPY) down just a tenth of percent. Perhaps more interesting was the U.S. Dollar (UUP) pullback, leaving Commodities (DBC) commensurately overbought. Small Caps (IWM), Real Estate (IYR), Materials (XLB) and the Trans...
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Tags: etfs | calendars-economic-reporting | etf | iwm | iyr | iyt | small-caps | spy | xlb
Free Money Thursday – Quoth Bernanke...
But where's my Trillion Dollars? Federal Reserve officials said they expect to keep short-term interest rates near zero for almost three more years and signaled they could restart a controversial bond-buying program in yet another campaign to rev up the disappointing economic recovery. The Centr...
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