Paul Henneman Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending February 27, 2026 Markets closed the week with measured gains across major equity ETFs, even as geopolitical tensions escalated and volatility expectations rose sharply. Broad-based funds such as QQQM (+0.97%), SPYM (+0.59%), and VB (+0.94%) advanced modestly, while sector performance was more pronounced in Communication Services (XLC +2.33%) and … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending February 13, 2026 Volatility continues to define the early weeks of 2026, with markets swinging back and forth in short one-to-two day cycles. While headline indexes have struggled to establish sustained momentum, sector rotation remains active beneath the surface. Investors are increasingly reallocating capital away from extended mega-cap growth … Read more
Typically, the first full blog of the year reviews returns of benchmark index ETFs and opines on what prevailed in the past year through five years, then provides analysis that could provide insights into the future for US equities and other asset classes. This year is no different in that respect. Financial Advisory Services based … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending December 12, 2025 Markets delivered a choppy and highly differentiated week, with performance driven less by broad index direction and more by sector and style dispersion. While several economically sensitive and defensive sectors posted solid gains, technology and growth-oriented exposures lagged meaningfully. This divergence reflects a market that is … Read more
Following on last week’s top 10 list, this week’s blog focuses on ETFs related to the stocks in the list. We begin with lots and lots of data in the form of several tables, and end with our written analysis. Skip to the end if you prefer to jump to the conclusions we make on … Read more
“The Magnificent Seven” was the most popular sobriquet among stock market strategists, portfolio managers and reporters in 2023. Stocks such as Google, Nvidia, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple dominated performance and volume charts. Almost unnoticed, Broadcom pushed its way to 4th in Market Cap in the Nasdaq and more than doubled in price last year … Read more
I’m frequently asked for a top ten picks list for the new year. The nature of ValuEngine Ratings is that the ten stocks picked for the highest 1-year price gain among the 6,000 in our universe are better suited for high-risk tolerance traders than mainstream advisors and their retail clients. Therefore, in compiling this top … Read more
The Editor-in-Chief of well-respected publisher ETF Stream, Tom Eckett, published a rare editorial Friday March 24 saying the big selloff in banks due to fear of contagion was close to over. He said at these levels, bank ETFs were at rarely seen low levels compared with earnings expectations and should not be thrown off too … Read more
WEBINAR: AAII New York & Twin Cities March Program– “Magnetize” Your Portfolio by Combining Fundamental and Technical Analysis Mar 8, 2023 06:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Jordan Kimmel shows us how to blend Fundamentals with Technicals to identify the best candidates to build a portfolio. It is not enough to … Read more
The following news item is an excerpt from an Investment News Article dated August 18, 2022. The full article can be viewed HERE. Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin announced a ‘sweep’ of firms offering the new ETFs, which he compared to gambling at a casino. With the first single-stock ETFs only about a month … Read more