Is This a Summer Rotation Which I See Before Me?   The normally quiet summer season in markets was anything but this week, as stocks saw two pronounced days of selling on Tuesday and Thursday.   Sandwiched in between those two days was the rebound in Wednesday trade, where stocks reverted to their hitherto resilient

In case you missed it, I encourage you to read my e-letter article from last week, which features part three of this article   http://www.stockinvestor.com/29606/etfs-music-markets-part-iii/  

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There has been record hot weather in many parts of the country this week. If you had any doubt that summer was here, well, that notion likely has been disabused. Here at the Southern California ranch land where I’m writing to you from today, it is nearly triple-digit heat. And though we’re used to hot

I love music, and I love exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Both allow us to hear the “music of the markets” play out in real time. In the third and final installment of our series, ETFs & the Music of the Markets, we look at the tune being played in two sectors leading the market rally… semiconductor ETFs

One of the reasons we have an Aggressive Portfolio in this service is so we can recommend exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are seeing big money flows. During this bull market rally, there have been a lot of those sectors, but one wider segment has been technology. We’re currently taking advantage of that bull trend in

This week, the action in markets was primarily driven by the Fed’s decision on interest rates, and the political developments in Washington. We’ll get to politics in a moment, but first let’s recap the Fed decision and the one surprise out of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcement. As expected, the FOMC raised interest

By Richard C. Young John Neff was the long-time manager of the Vanguard Windsor Fund (formerly the Wellington Equity Fund). Neff was brought in to turn around an ailing fund that was tarnishing the reputation of Wellington Management and hurting business at the firm’s flagship Wellington Fund. The prior management team at the Wellington Equity

By Richard C. Young Many decades ago in Young’s World Money Forecast, I concentrated only on the big picture, and did not write about individual securities at all. I felt that if I could get the big picture right for my clients and subscribers, they could deal with individual securities selection. I still devote the

  ETFs and the Music of the Markets, Part II ETF Talk: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Fund Excels On Avoiding Investor Overconfidence Firmness, Not Strut ETFs and the Music of the Markets, Part II One of the beauties of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is that they allow us to hear the “music of the markets” playing