Tag: S&P 500
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Significant S&P 500 Reshuffling: Palantir, Dell, and Erie Indemnity Set to Join the Benchmark Index
In a major shakeup of the S&P 500, three companies are poised to make their debut on the prestigious index: Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR), Dell Technologies Inc. (DELL), and Erie Indemnity Company (ERIE). These newcomers will replace American Airlines Group (AAL), Etsy, Inc. (ETSY), and Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), marking a significant shift in the composition…
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S&P 500 Record Highs – a Warning for Investors
As Wall Street’s S&P 500 reached its first record close in more than two years on Friday, the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and asset management organisations is issuing fresh warnings to investors The “urgent alert” from deVere Group’s Nigel Green comes as the large-cap benchmark index SPX finished at…
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The US Economy is Rolling Over
[box type=”alert”]Yet another “unmassaged” data point has shown that the US economy is rolling over.[/box] If you’ve been reading me for a while you know that one of my biggest pet peeves is the fact that headline US economic data (GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, etc.) is massaged to the point of being fiction. For this…
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S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report
NEW YORK, July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), one of the world’s leading index providers, announced today that, for S&P 500® companies with full reporting information for 2014, the percentage of sales from foreign countries increased after five years of stagnation. According to S&P DJI’s annual S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report,…
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Stock Market Speculation with Inverse ETF’s
An inverse exchange-traded fund is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), traded on a public stock market, which is designed to perform as the inverse of whatever index or benchmark it is designed to track. These funds work by using short selling, trading derivatives such as futures contracts, and other leveraged investment techniques. By providing, over short…
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Gasping for Air up there
The S&P 500 has run 170 points (13.8%) essentially unabated since July’s low of 1230. It’s as if the market earns brownie points each day for setting new multi-year highs, just as an alpha male earns brownie points for flattering remarks toward his girlfriend. The problem here is that the air up here is getting…
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Rydex ETF equal-weights S&P 500 stocks
BOSTON – Exchange-traded funds that invest in widely-held S&P 500 companies can look markedly different, depending on how much they allocate to individual stocks. The Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF (RSP) invests the same amount — 0.20 percent — in every stock in the S&P 500 index (SPX), rebalancing quarterly to maintain the portfolio. The…