This week’s market action was dominated by sellers, and with the exception of some strong buying on Thursday, the bears where firmly in control. By Friday’s closing bell the Dow had given up 2.60% of its value, while the S&P 500 sank 4.02%. The NASDAQ Composite was the hardest hit index, plunging 5.08% for the week. Of […]

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The Fabian ETF Performance Report is updated on a weekly basis every Friday afternoon. You can click below to download the full PDF of the report or start using the ETF Screener here. Download the PDF of the Fabian Weekly ETF Performance Report here In this report, we have grouped the universe of ETF offerings by […]

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There’s no doubt about it, the bullish party Wall Street has enjoyed for so many months has finally settled down. In fact, there’s been a decided shift in the mood of the market from exuberant bullishness to what today has become an overwhelming feeling that the recent rally could finally have come to an end. […]

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 "The Great Depression was a failure not of capitalism but of the hyperactive state."  — Paul Johnson, introduction to Murray N. Rothbard’s, America’s Great Depression Capitalism has certainly taken its lumps over the past year — lumps that, in my opinion, it doesn’t deserve. If you want to know how capitalism started to really get

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It remains to be seen whether a tepid recovery of the housing market now starting to take shape can be maintained. The good news for investors is that there are two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that allow you to play the real estate market whether you are an investor with a positive outlook, or a more

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One clear sign that a market has reached the top is a rotation of market leadership. When sectors that have led the market higher begin to falter, and when laggard sectors begin to show signs of life, you know that a changing of the guard is underway.  During the past 30 days, we’ve seen several

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Over the past two weeks, there’s been a decided attitude adjustment in the equity markets. Sellers have stepped in and taken their profits off of the table, and the sell-off now has pushed the S&P 500 Index down to its short-term, 50-day moving average.  If we look at the chart below of SPX, we see

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The major market averages were a case study in volatility this week. On Wednesday we saw the S&P 500 breach the 1,100 mark by midday, but an afternoon sell-off sent the index sharply lower for the session. By Friday’s closing bell, the S&P 500 was down 0.74% for the week. The selling wasn’t relegated to just the S&P […]

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