04/13/2026 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending April 10, 2026 U.S. equity markets continued to show constructive momentum this week, with broad-based gains across major ETFs led by strength in technology and industrial sectors. Growth-oriented funds such as the NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM) and Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK) posted solid advances, while the industrial sector … Read more

Marching Through Iran – A First Quarter 2026 Review

The month of March followed the old aphorism nicely from a weather and climate perspective. For most of the country, it went in like a lion with harsh weather conditions while the month ended like a lamb with relatively mild weather.  The stock market, however, was another story altogether.  It came in with hopeful trepidation … Read more

03/16/2026 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending March 13, 2026 U.S. equity markets experienced broad-based weakness this week as investors remained cautious amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty and continued sector rotation. Most major equity benchmarks declined, with technology, industrial, and consumer discretionary sectors leading the pullback. Despite the broader market softness, the energy sector showed relative strength, … Read more

Geopolitically Themed Investment Risks and Opportunities Take Center Stage

The past 10 months has been characterized by rotation from dominance by the “Magnificent Seven” mega-cap tech companies to almost everything that had been beaten down prior to these market rotation trends.  As documented in these blogs and our weekly market and strategy updates, the period from July 1, 2025 through January 24, 2026 were … Read more

02/16/2026 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

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

Perspectives on Rotations Into Value, Small-Cap, Developed and Emerging Markets

After hearing for five years about the valuation bubbles that would cause QQQ and SPY to suffer imminent crashes, net cash flows from major institutions are starting to agree.  Themes of rotation out of large cap US growth stocks and into small cap and/or value stocks and/or international stocks continue to dominate market commentary.  The … Read more

02/09/2026 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending February 06, 2026 Market action last week depended heavily on where investors chose to look. Beneath largely unchanged headline index levels, sharp rotations continued across style, size, and geography. Value stocks outperformed growth by a wide margin, while large-cap technology names increasingly served as sources of funds for smaller-cap, … Read more

02/02/2026 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

Weekly Market Recap – Week Ending January 30, 2026 Equity markets finished the week with a mixed tone as leadership continued to rotate across sectors and styles. While large-cap growth and technology-oriented exposures showed modest weakness, select income and defensive segments posted gains, underscoring an environment driven more by rotation than broad market momentum. Energy … Read more

01/05/2026 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

U.S. equity markets entered the first trading days of the new year on a mixed footing, with weakness concentrated in mega-cap growth and technology while selective strength appeared across small caps, energy, and industrial sectors. Dividend-oriented and defensive exposures also showed relative resilience. The dispersion in sector and factor performance underscores an ongoing rotation theme … Read more

11/10/2025 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary

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