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☆ This ETF's 2024 gains nearly match the Nasdaq Composite — with less volatility
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Invesco S & P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV) has advanced close to 13% in 2024, while the Nasdaq Composite is up 13.8%. SPLV follows the S & P 500 Low Volatility Index, which is based on 100 stocks within the broad market index with the lowest realized volatility over the past 12 months. SPLV YTD mountain Invesco's S & P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV). On Tuesday, the S & P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average posted their worst session since the early-August slide as a batch of weak manufacturing data spurred investors' worries over the economy. Elsewhere, the ‎CBOE Volatility Index has ticked up above 20 since September has started, and it surged over 65 during the early-August rout, which was its highest level since 2020.

Persons: SPLV, Warren Buffett's Berkshire, Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab Organizations: Nasdaq, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Mobile, Dow Jones Locations: Warren

☆ Final Trades: Live Nation, Delta Air Lines and SPLV
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFinal Trades: Live Nation, Delta Air Lines and SPLVThe Investment Committee gives you their top stocks to watch for the second half.

Organizations: Delta Air Lines, Investment

☆ Big tech is still the hope in a sideways stock market
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

With the S & P 500 down 1% this month, and essentially flat for the quarter, the best you can say is that the overall trend has moved from down in 2022 to mostly sideways in 2023. Lowry, the nation's oldest technical analysis service, has taken to calling the rally in tech "the mega-cap mirage." Lowry noted over the weekend that "core indicators of market health have demonstrated significant deterioration from the early February market high through recent days." Even as the S & P 500 was near a new rally high for the year recently, the S & P Midcap 400 and S & P Smallcap 600 were 12% and 17% below their February 2nd highs last week. Only 46% of S & P 500 stocks are above their 200-day moving averages, hardly a sign of broad market strength.

☆ This low volatility ETF is ripe for a rebound, UBS says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Jesse Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

David Perlman, an ETF strategist at the bank, said in a note to clients that UBS added the Invesco S & P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV) to its list of favorite exchange traded funds. The SPLV, which holds the 100 stocks in the S & P 500 with the lowest realized volatility over the past 12 months, was rebalanced in February and now holds sizeable positions in some of UBS's favorite sectors. Notably, this suggestion means that UBS is calling for investors to ignore what has worked in 2023 so far. The fund has outperformed the S & P 500 over the past year, with a loss of 6% on a total return basis versus down 10.9% for the SPDR S & P 500 ETF, even when accounting for SPLV's 0.25% expense ratio and its poor first quarter. UBS removed several energy funds from its list of preferred ETFs, including the iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP) .

☆ How to position your portfolio following the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco — and why markets are wrongly anticipating a Fed pivot — according to a researcher whose clients include Wall Street's top money
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were shut by regulators in recent days. Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank over the last few days, some market participants are expecting the Federal Reserve to back off from its hawkish stance. Goldman Sachs' Chief US Economist Jan Hatzius said on Sunday night that he expects the Fed not to hike rates at its next meeting before resuming them later in the spring. The Fed's next moves are relevant to recent events because higher interest rates contributed to the downfall of Silicon Valley Bank. For example, Jeffrey Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital, told CNBC on Monday that the central bank will hike rates by 25 basis points at its next meeting.

☆ A Bank of America indicator just signaled the economy is tipping into a recession. Their stock chief shares 5 trades that are likely to outperform the rest of the market based on decades of history.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bank of America shares where to invest in a recession: high quality; low risk; large caps; small caps; and stocks that generate high free cash flow. It can be difficult to pinpoint where in a market cycle stocks are — to be able to tell whether there's further downside in a sell-off, or whether stocks have already seen their lowest point. "We have found that factor behavior is relatively predictable during different phases of the US Regime Indicator," Subramanian added. Bank of AmericaFurther, Subramanian said stocks that generate high cash flow should also outperform in the current late cycle environment and into the downturn phase. "As the market cycle matures, companies that continue to generate healthy free cash become scarcer and sought after," she said.

☆ Forgotten parts of the market lead the way in 2023 as advisors wrestle with how to play the economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Everyone here is amazed at how forgotten segments of the market have rebounded in 2023: international, growth, small cap and bonds. Advisors here are having a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that there would be a recession ins 2023, and now maybe not. "With real wage growth, large payroll growth and earnings beating expectations it equals a soft landing at worst and maybe no recession near term." Most advisors here are coming to grips with Powell's insistence the Fed will not lower rates this year. Their Equal Weight S & P 500 ETF (RSP) has also attracted significant inflows from investors wary of market cap weighted indexes.

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