IHS Markit

One of the market themes that’s been emerging as the vaccination rollout continues and economic optimism improves is that investors have been switching out of growth stocks and into names that stand to benefit as the economy recovers. While that’s beneficial for the likes of the ...

The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: In light of hopes for a sustained economic rebound, U.S. broad market indices pushed to new all-time highs. Remember This: “[T]he third wave is now hitting the economy harder than we thought and that the damage is likely to keep adding up in coming...

The Securities and Exchange Commission bars fund issuers from using the word “blockchain” in fund names, but there are some exchange traded funds that are positioned as blockchain funds. The oldest of those funds is the actively managed AMPLIFY TRANSFORMATIONAL DATA SHARING ETF (...

Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT) shares bounced back on Thursday morning but remain below the company’s $72 IPO price. After less than a week of trading, it's already clear Lyft will serve as a battleground for short sellers and long buyers. Short Sellers Paying High Price IHS Markit reported this...

Long disappointing and downtrodden, eurozone stocks and the corresponding exchange traded funds are rebounding this year. As Feb. 5, the iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF (CBOE: EZU) and the SPDR Euro STOXX 50 ETF (NYSE: FEZ) are up an average of 7 percent year-to-date. What Happened While 2019 is...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are in the books, but there's still plenty of time left for retail stocks and the related exchange traded funds to gain investors' favor this holiday season. Down more than 11 percent in the fourth quarter, the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSE: XRT) could use some...

Surging domestic supply hindered natural gas prices over the past several years, but the commodity has recently been a solid performer. Demand expectations could provide some upside for natural gas and the related exchange traded funds. The United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), a futures-based...

The Supreme Court of the United States last month ruled in the case of South Dakota vs. Wayfair (NYSE: W) that states could force retailers based in other states to pay sales tax on purchases made by residents of the states where the retailer is not based. To clear that up using a hypothetical...

The Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB) and other materials exchange-traded funds struggled to start 2018, but the group has recently shown signs of perking up. Last week, XLB gained about 3 percent, pushing its June gain to 4 percent, a move that's erased a year-to-date loss. What...

The iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (NYSE: TUR), the lone exchange-traded fund dedicated to Turkish stocks, is lower by more than 12 percent this year. As if that's not bad enough, the specter of another presidential election looms over the country's often volatile financial markets. Earlier this...

The Global X MSCI Greece ETF (NYSE: GREK), the only U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund dedicated to Greek stocks, is up 2.72 percent year-to-date. GREK is easily topping the 2018 performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, a relevant comparison because Greece is classified as a developing economy...

U.S. dividend growth remains impressive even as interest rates are rising. The dividend growth theme is expected to continue, particularly in the current quarter. “IHS Markit is forecasting that quarterly dividends declared by firms in the S&P 500 will top $115 billion in the current...