NVIDIA

Apple

Microsoft

Amazon

Alphabet

Tesla

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - Ordinary Shares - Class B

Broadcom

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

SPY tracks a market cap-weighted index of US large- and mid-cap stocks selected by the S&P Committee.

American Tower

Bristol-Myers

British American Tobacco

Enbridge

Johnson & Johnson

Altria

Philip Morris

Invesco QQQ

S&P Global

AT&T

When someone gives you a choice: ask if you can have both? Inflation might be transitory, it might also be here to stay.

Become Inflation Proof: Buy These 4 High Quality Dividend Growth Stocks

SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF

Plenty of economic data help give investors -- as well as the Fed -- a focused glimpse at how our economy is moving.

PCE Up, Durable Goods Down, Jobless Claims Slow-Melt

iShares Latin America 40 ETF

Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF

Vanguard Total World Stock ETF

Shares in Europe have taken the lead for 2021 returns among the world's main equity regions, based on returns for a set of exchange-listed funds through May 26. Analysts have also been advising that European stocks offer lower valuations vs. US shares, which suggests that expected returns are higher for the former.

European Stocks Lead World's Major Equity Regions Year To Date

Nordstrom

Goldman Sachs

Bank of America

General Electric

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Mark Hillman (Trades, Portfolio)'s Hillman Capital Management sold shares of the following stocks during the first quarter of 2021, which ended on March 31.

Hillman Capital Exits Nordstrom, Goldman Sachs

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is largely traded because it's standard and liquid, not because most of its users know or like all 500 names in it.

SPY: Tracking A 500-Stock Index With Just 5 Stocks

iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF

iShares Select Dividend ETF

iShares Gold Trust

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

A deep dive into the biggest changes in institutional ETF owners in Q1 2021.

Big Shifts In ETF Ownership

Ares Capital

Retirement doesn't need to scare you like a child in a thunderstorm. You must make an active choice to earn passive income.

Retirement: Passive Income For Daily Life

Stock market breadth continues to narrow as fewer and fewer stocks participate in the rally. Sentiment cares little about breadth for now.

Narrowing Stock Market Breadth Belies Improving Sentiment

Things will pick up a bit today, with the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home-price index, as well as the consumer confidence index, and new home sales The following public companies are slated to release quarterly earnings reports today, May 25: AutoZone Inc. (NYSE:AZO -- $1,448.40) retails and distributes automotive replacement parts and accessories.

Today's Stock Market News & Events: 5/25/2021

The market continues to be rudderless. And because of it, a classic “broadening formation” pattern continues to develop on the chart of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY).

SPY Forms Ominous Pattern

According to data from major banks, Americans and Europeans have put more money in savings during the Covid-19 pandemic, which could lead to a boom in consumer spending once new cases appear to subside enough. Wall Street observers are following this factor closely as the two continents are beginning to see economic growth again.

American and European Covid-19 Savings: The Dark Horse to Push Inflation Higher

VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF

SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund

Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in a row. Authorized participants (APs) were net sellers of domestic equity ETFs (-$3.7 billion), withdrawing money for the first week in 11.

U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Conventional Fund, ETF Investors Shun Equities Over Rising Inflationary Concerns

On Friday, cryptocurrency news drove stocks and index ETFs to pare gains from the prior session, when they recovered from three consecutive losing days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.32% Friday, after rallying in the previous session.

Stock ETFs Pare Thursday's Gains Thanks to Fresh Crypto Concerns

Another day, another bullish sign the U.S. economy. Business activity across the U.S. service sector gained momentum in May.

The US Service Sector Is Gaining Momentum

Market futures are up in the pre-market for the second-straight day, with the Dow poised to open +150 points.

Markets Up, Break-Even on the Week?

With the FOMC Minutes coming Wednesday afternoon, stocks and ETFs tumbled overnight and into a third consecutive day session, as investors dumped cryptocurrencies, spurring additional selling in speculative areas of the market. After dropping 586 points at its low of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded somewhat, to trade off by 0.76%.

Stock ETFs Tumble as Bitcoin Plummets

As we've seen in the past couple weeks, whatever gets pumped up into the markets gets deflated again over time.

For the Markets, Deja Vu All Over Again

Asian markets have recently sold off a bit. The bond market doesn't seem worried about inflation.

Beware Low Volatility (Technically Speaking For 5/18)

As long as leading indicators of economic growth continue to show positive momentum, risk assets like stocks are likely to perform well. The S&P 500 and ETFs such as SPY have a higher average return and lower drawdowns during periods of positive economic momentum.

SPY: The Trend Is Still Your Friend

iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF

iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF

Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF

Invesco S&P 500 High Beta edged up to a record close on Monday and remains firmly in the lead so far in 2021 for a broad set of ETFs tracking various slices of US equity factors. SPHB's sizzling year-to-date results are striking in relative as well as absolute terms at the moment.

High Beta Stocks Top U.S. Equity Factor Returns In 2021

Cohen & Steers

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Vanguard Real Estate ETF

A lot of investors fear that rising interest rates will cause REITs to underperform. This fear stems from a misconception. Historically, REITs have been some of the strongest performers during times of rising interest rates.

Why REITs Outperform When Interest Rates Rise

Virtus Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund

Liberty All-Star Growth Fund

BlackRock Capital Allocation Trust

BlackRock Science & Technology

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II

BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund

Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund Inc

Cornerstone Total Return Fund Inc

ProShares UltraShort QQQ

Teladoc

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

The proverbial shot-across-the-bow came last week as the markets finally reacted to inflation fears as reflected in the sizzling CPI (Consumer Price Index) and PPI (Producer Price Index) numbers.

Equity CEF Performances: Updated Through May 14, 2021

Inflation, the old villain that battered the U.S. economy in the 1970s, is back, as evidenced by a spike in both the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index statistics released in recent months.

Inflation: Transitory or Persistent?

Several statistics released on Friday that showed the U.S. economy is cooling off helped ease investor inflation fears and saved Wall Street from the worst week of 2021.

What Saved Stocks From the Worst Week of 2021

U.S. indices traded sharply higher Friday as stocks continued to rebound following a sell-off earlier in the week. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NASDAQ: SPY) closed higher by 1.54% at $416.58.

News for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ETF (SPY)