ETF Analysis & Opinion

Financial stocks, including bank shares, have come under pressure recently. For instance, the Dow Jones Financials Index, which hit an all-time high June 7, have lost about 5% since then....

US equity markets slid last week, following the Fed’s modestly-hawkish stance in response to surging inflation levels. The central bank aims to “achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of...

China is the world's second-largest economy behind the US. And as recent data from the World Bank highlights, China will help fuel a large part of the globe's economic expansion: “The global...

Healthcare, especially vaccine development and rollout efforts, has become one of the most widely-followed topics during the pandemic. And due to the pandemic, a large number of elective surgeries...

U.S. benchmark indices, like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 have seen significant returns over the past 12 months. They are up 37%, 41% and 45%, respectively. The...

The S&P 500, which is up 13% in 2021, is hovering near an all-time high. Similarly, a number of sectors have also seen above-average increases this year. Amid such juicy gains, many investors wonder...

Passive-income seekers typically prefer investing in robust stocks that provide stable—and preferably—growing dividends, which can also provide price appreciation in the long run. Given...

This has become the year when “meme stocks,” like movie theatre operator, AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC), have captured Wall Street’s imagination. So far in 2021, AMC shares are up...

Digitalization is having a substantial impact on the financial services industry. Therefore, financial technology (fintech) has been one of the most important investment themes of recent...

Investing in green bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as part of a socially-responsible portfolio was our discussion recently. Today, we move on to the opposite end of the spectrum, and look at...

An increasing number of investors seek to put their capital into assets that align with their views and ethical values. As a result, terms like "environmental, social and governance" and "socially...

Many of Wall Street’s tech darlings have taken a breather recently. Having hit multi-year highs in the last number of weeks, tech shares and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have given up some of...

Last month brought new highs to both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. However, the tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 index could not go past its all-time high registered in late April. Meanwhile,...

In low interest rate environments dividends are important for many long-term investors. Buying dividend stocks and reinvesting them to buy more shares is likely to result in considerable growth in...