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Less than three months into 2016, at least one thing is clear about exchange-traded fund flows: Advisors and investors love bond funds. That much is highlighted by the fact that six of this year's top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are fixed income funds. However, distribution of fixed income ETF...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL)’s reign as the world’s largest public company was very short-lived. After the stock briefly eclipsed Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) as the world’s largest public company following a solid Q4 earnings beat, Alphabet’s market cap has now plummeted...

According to FactSet, fourth quarter earnings estimates continue trending lower. Wall Street analysts as a whole are now expecting S&P 500 earnings per share to fall 4.4 percent year over year in the fourth quarter. Wall Street analysts entered the fourth quarter with expectations for...

The Consumer Discretionary SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLY) is the best performer among the nine sector SPDR exchange-traded funds this year, and the competition is not even close. With a year-to-date gain of 14.1 percent, XLY tops second-place Technology SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLK) by 650 basis points. Likewise...

Youssef Squali of Cantor Fitzgerald commented in a note that "strong results" from Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG), Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), and LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD) "bode well" for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook is scheduled to report its third-quarter results on...

The FactSet Top Idea Tournament is a quarterly research contest open to investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds, and private equity funds. Travis Cooke, the Founder and Managing Partner of Voss Capital, took home the most recent prize with his short thesis on Royal Caribbean Cruises...

After a record setting 2013 bull market, investors are showing signs of holding companies earnings to higher standards. The Wall Street Journal reported that “some of the most recognizable names in American business have suffered large share-price declines following quarterly reports deemed...

According to Barron’s, it’s “good-bye” time, not “buy” time for Best Buy (NYSE: BBY). It did not help that holiday sales fell almost a full percent compared to the two percent gain analysts expected. In addition, the company expects to report a decline in Q4 operating profit on February 27....

Big investors have been dumping shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) since late September and Apple bulls are mostly unfazed. No reason to worry, they say. The company will continue to innovate with new products that will drive growth going forward. Keep buying on weakness. Recent institutional selling...

This past weekend in Barron's online: who benefits as the PC era wanes, the prospects for Annie's, Texas Industries and National Oilwell Varco, as well as four rising dividend plays. Cover Story "Bye-Bye PCs" by Tiernan Ray. As the personal computer era wanes, this week's cover story says, Dell...