SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF News

After years of underperformance, value investing came back. Investors could tap the strength in value in the basket form through ETFs.

Clearly, I'm a big believer in market sentiment as a primary driver for market direction.

Stocks and bonds both lost 6% in the quarter ending 3/31/2022. Read more to see what's happened so far since the Fed began fighting inflation.

The employment report was very strong and price pressures are still an issue. Last week, the markets had a natural sell-off. Click here to read more.

The investment scene morphed into a very complex situation and the global economy is showing some weakness. Click here to read the latest edition of the Week on Wall Street.

The yield curve inverted and the stocks turned negative. Click here to read the latest edition of the Weekly Indicators.

This is a presentation of my general theories of market analysis culled from my articles and presentations throughout the years.

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The expected return from a roulette spin is negative (-5.26%). An operation that has a negative expected return is not an investment. Read more.

It's very likely that the current monetary tightening cycle will cause a recession. Will the Fed be able to engineer a soft-landing like in 1995? Click here.

The Fed is talking tough on inflation by projecting a large and rapid rates increase but we think it won’t fully deliver. S&P 500 scored its biggest weekly gain since 2020; bond yields rose.

The news has been terribly bearish over the last month. At some point, investors will have to learn what moves markets, as news following gets most on the wrong side of the market turns.

The latest Fed meeting held on Mar 16 came across as hawkish as the Fed hiked rates by 25 bps and eyes several more hikes this year.