ETF Analysis & Opinion

President Joseph Biden has made it clear that infrastructure, especially for a sustainable economy, is high on his administration's agenda. His policies are likely to incentivize infrastructure...

The NASDAQ 100 is at a record high, up about 43.6% over the past 12 months. By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are up around 6.4% and 16.4%, respectively.While the...

Almost a year ago, in mid-February 2020, broader markets stalled and went into freefall in a matter of weeks as COVID-19 became a global pandemic. Then came the rally that took many stocks to record...

Growth stocks have been one of the catalysts of the recent rally in global stock markets. A growth stock typically increases revenue and earnings at a faster rate than its peers. They tend to operate...

In March 2020, the cash price of copper hit a multi-year low of $4,617 per tonne on the LME. Then, recently, along with many asset classes, copper surged to reach the current multi-year highs of...

Financial services and bank stocks are in the spotlight as the likelihood of an additional US fiscal stimulus package increases. In 2020, financial shares underperformed, but renewed hopes for better...

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, were hot in 2020, when 248 went public, raising well over $80 billion. New SPACs are issued nearly every week, and many regard them as one of the...

Healthcare became one of the most important areas in daily life and equity markets in 2020. We previously covered several exchange-traded funds in the industry, such as the Health Care Select Sector...

The earnings season has brought increased volatility as well as downward pressure on broader U.S. indices. As of yesterday, the S&P 500 index has now given up the 2021 gains and is in negative...

Innovation comes in many forms. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines innovation as “the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or...

In many ways, 2020 was an unforgettable year for investors. Despite rapid initial declines in equities in February and March, stocks not only recovered but hit record highs in subsequent months. And...

Recent days saw the four major U.S. indices hit all-time highs. Yet, not every sector had a strong 2020. Namely, shares of companies in the energy, leisure, travel, insurance and real estate sectors,...

Wall Street is on track this week for a flood of quarterly earnings reports from some of the US's biggest companies. Investors will be paying special attention to Big Tech}} and other businesses whose...

Investors in cannabis stocks and cannabis-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had a roller-coaster 2020. Until the end of October, many of them had lost around half their value or, in some cases,...