Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending November 21, 2025 The week closed with a mixed tone as sector performance varied sharply across the equity landscape. Technology and communication services led the downside, while defensive sectors such as utilities and consumer staples provided modest stability. Meanwhile, select international and emerging-market names delivered strong 30-day momentum, reflecting … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending November 14, 2025 The past week saw a clear defensive tilt across major ETFs, with only a handful of pockets showing resilience. Utilities, consumer staples, and select dividend strategies managed modest gains, while growth-heavy benchmarks such as QQQM and technology-sector ETFs slipped more than 2%. At the individual-stock level, … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending November 07, 2025 A wave of caution swept through markets in the first week of November, reversing much of the year’s earlier optimism. Technology and growth ETFs, which had powered returns through October, led the declines as heavyweight benchmarks like QQQM (-3.5%) and XLK (-4.6%) sold off sharply. Defensive pockets such as Energy (XLE … Read more
The Consumer Discretionary sector of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) was established in 1999 to represent cyclical industries. It has undergone several significant revisions to reflect the evolution of the global economy, primarily in 2018 and 2023, as business models shifted. All research 5,000+ stocks and 700+ ETFs updated on www.ValuEngine.com When GICS was … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending October 17, 2025 U.S. equities ended the week on a resilient note, with broad-based gains across most sectors. The S&P 500 ETF (SPLG) rose modestly ay 0.21%, while the tech-heavy Invesco Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQM) added 0.31%-extending its strong year-to-date leadership. Notably, defensive and rate-sensative segments led performance this … Read more
Strategists, economists, and all manners of pundits have been somberly telling us since January why market euphoria is misplaced. There has been no shortage of rationales for their bearish forecasts. Tariffs, systemic instability, recession, inflation, ridiculously unprecedented valuations and more have explained why a major correction or potential crash has been inevitable this year. Their … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending September 5, 2025 The first trading week of September began with volatility but closed more moderately as markets digested economic data and sector-specific news. Technology, small caps, and gold miners stood out as leaders while energy lagged. www.ValuEngine.com as always for access to all of the research on over … Read more
Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending August 29, 2025 Markets ended the week on a mixed note, with sector ETFs largely stable but with notable strength in Energy, Financials, and Small Caps. On the stock side, technology and select growth names posted outsized gains over the past 30 days, highlighting continued investor appetite for innovation-driven … Read more
Our quick answer from a quantitative perspective is no. Of the 15 Sectors covered in reports by ValuEngine, the Technology sector ranks fourth in expected 12-month price return according to our forecast model. Our sector ratings are equally weighted indicating that this broad sector has strongly rated stocks throughout the market cap spectrum and beyond … Read more
The twist is that iShares ETFs are used throughout this analysis. This way we can analyze the first half of the year while also reviewing iShares unique history along with their strengths and weaknesses for investors in the context of today’s ETF marketplace. This article also relies heavily on the nomenclature system of ETFdb.com, a … Read more