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Last week US stocks jolted investors from their somnambulism, at least for a day. Volatility, as we currently understand it, from the very low levels we’ve gotten used to, decided to rear it’s ugly head, but only for a day…. Continue Reading →

Emerging Market ETFs (EEM, VWO) led the week with gains of about 2%. Tech, mainly QQQ but in VUG (Vanguard Growth) also, was the other area that showed gains in what proved to be a difficult week for our ETFs…. Continue Reading →

Domestic ETFs were strong last week with the exception of small caps (IWM, IJR) which were basically flat on the week. Europe and Developed markets were even stronger than domestic ETFs with Europe (EFA, VGK) rising about 3% and Developed… Continue Reading →

The “Sell in May and Go Away” axiom is one of the most popular and also one of the best performing market timing strategies. The S&P 500’s historic return from May 1st to October 31st has been deminimus, with just… Continue Reading →

Last week many of our covered ETFs had daily gains, and losses, of almost 1%. At the end of the week the gains prevailed and most of our ETFs rose about 1%. Domestic  Small and Midcap ETFs ( IWM, IJH,… Continue Reading →

The Easter holiday seemed to start early as trading was very light last week. Domestic ETFs fell 1%, plus or minus, but foreign ETFs fell a little less with declines of 0.5%, plus or minus. Only two ETFs posted gains… Continue Reading →

Even with a number of seemingly significant negative events during the past week (e.g. weak auto sales, FOMC thoughts about the stock market being overvalued and the idea that the Federal Reserve should reduce the size of its balance sheet,… Continue Reading →

The first quarter was solid with gains for all our covered ETFs, and most of those were in the 5%-10% range. At the higher end for the quarter were Emerging markets and QQQ with low double digit gains. Large cap… Continue Reading →

While Foreign focused ETFs posted modest gains Mid and Small Cap ETFs led the domestic decline, falling 2%-3% last week. Domestic Large Cap ETFs were down 1.5% plus or minus a little. These are slight declines from near term highs… Continue Reading →

Domestic large capitalization ETFs were flat last week but smaller stocks, after slipping some the previous week, and foreign markets showed gains of about 2%. Emerging markets (EEM,VWO) led the way with gains of almost 4%. As can be seen… Continue Reading →