A Look Ahead: Next Week's ETFs To Watch

To say that time is running out on a Santa Claus rally is to put things mildly. The reality is we probably want be getting one this year as the performance of U.S. equities this week clearly indicates. All three major U.S. indexes ended the week down more than 1.5%. That's bad enough, but...

Stocks ended the week in fine fashion as traders bought dips seen in previous session and ignored a Moody's downgrade of France's three largest banks. There was less bad news out of Europe as policymakers reached an agreement to bolster Euro Zone budget rules. A temporary Band-Aid when a tourniquet...

Seven days, seven straight losses for U.S. as investors have little to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. So bad have things gotten that even the holiday-shortened week brought little in the way of relief for wary investors. Europe remains the primary catalyst of evil behind the seemingly never...

Thanks a lot Europe. That might be the sentiment of anyone that was long equities and other risky assets this week as fresh concerns about Europe's ability to do something about its sovereign debt crisis sent U.S. stocks tumbling. When the dust settled today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was...

Stocks ended the week on a glum note as the October jobs report disappointed. That was enough to send the S&P 500 to its first weekly drop since September. That index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both lost just over 1% for the week while the Nasdaq was the outperformer, sort of, with a...

Despite a lethargic day on Friday, this was by all accounts a very nice week to be long the market as all three major U.S. indexes jumped more than 3%. Friday's action wasn't surprising after the stunning rally put in by equities and other riskier assets on Thursday, but one negative is that a...

That was a nice way to end the week as a batch of good earnings reports and hopes that real progress is being made in Europe sent the S&P 500 higher by 1.9%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the week in fine form with four straight gains and a 2.3% jump on Friday alone. Ahead of a...

Good news: U.S. stocks shrugged off troublesome out of Europe Thursday after the close to focus on earnings reports, including a stellar one from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). Should that trend continue, the rally will continue to legitimize itself and send stocks and other riskier assets into year-end in...

A decent September jobs report not withstanding, stocks finished the week on a down note after Fitch Ratings took the ax to its debt ratings on Italy and Spain. No surprise there, but Moody's Investors Service made matters worse by placing Belgium's Aa1 local and foreign currency government bond...

Another down week at the office for stocks as the third quarter drew to a close with U.S. equities notching their worst quarterly performance the fourth quarter of 2008. You know, the dark days of the financial crisis. During the third quarter, the S&P 500 shed 14% and the Dow Jones Industrial...

Wow, that was nice. Five straight up days for U.S. stocks as the S&P 500 shot to its third-best weekly run since 2009. Europe, of course, continues to occupy center stage. This time around it appears as though policy makers are actually making some headway with Greece. Then again, we've been...

What else is new? Europe's sovereign debt woes continue to mean big problems for investors all over the world. Making matters worse is an ever-diminishing list of safe havens. Gone is the Swiss franc from the safe haven lexicon, so now we're down to gold, silver (sort of) and...U.S. dollars? The S...

For some reason, it doesn't feel like, but this was the best week for stocks in a month and even though Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did not grace us with a third round of quantitative easing, the Dow Jones Industrial Average still soared to a triple-digit gain on Friday. The S&P 500...

Mr. Market's pain train was running at full steam this week as Europe (what else?!) and slack economic data here in the U.S. (again, what else?!) combined to send stocks and anything else that could be viewed as a risky asset (we're talking about you, oil) tumbling. Safe havens? That phrase as a...

Mr. Market's pain train was running at full steam this week as Europe (what else?!) and slack economic data here in the U.S. (again, what else?!) combined to send stocks and anything else that could be viewed as a risky asset (we're talking about you, oil) tumbling. Safe havens? That phrase as a...