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Target Date ETFs For Retirement Investors
Image Source: Pixabay BlackRock recently launched the industry’s first suite of 10 target-date ETFs that hold a mix of stock and bond funds and automatically adjust asset allocation over time. The world’s largest asset manager had previously offered target-date ETFs but shuttered them in 2014 due to a lack of investor interest.Target-date funds, earlier offered only […]
Qualcomm Q4 Earnings And Revenues Beat Estimates
Image Source: Unsplash Qualcomm (QCOM – Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.02 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.92 per share. This compares to earnings of $3.13 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 5.21%. A quarter ago, it was expected […]
Fed Does Nothing And The Market Likes It
Image Source: Pixabay In today’s video we look at the bullish response to the Fed leaving rates unchanged. We discuss peak interest rates. We also discuss how the Fed signaled justification to raise rates and the reason why they didn’t raise rates.Video Length: 00:17:34More By This Author:Fed And Earnings – And Plenty More Volatility Financials Pump […]
Market Talk – Wednesday, Nov. 1
ASIA:The Bank of Japan has removed its 10-year bond yield ceiling of 1%, challenging the long-standing belief in a central bank ‘put.’ This belief, dating back to the days of Alan Greenspan, suggested that central banks like the Federal Reserve would always step in to support falling asset markets with monetary easing. The distinction between […]
Stocks Extend Rally On Unchanged Interest Rates
The Federal Reserve refrained from hiking interest rates for a second straight month. While the central bank did not eliminate the possibility of future hikes, it kept interest rates unchanged between 5.25% and 5.5%, noting the economy is growing at a “solid pace”.Stocks rallied in response to the largely anticipated move. The Dow and Nasdaq added […]
U.S. Federal Reserve Keeps Its Options Open With Another Hawkish Hold
The Fed funds rate target range was held at 5.25-5.5% by a unanimous vote, with a hawkish tone retained to ensure financial conditions remain tight and aid in the battle to constrain inflation. Higher household and corporate borrowing costs are starting to bite though and we don’t expect any further hikes this cycle.US Federal Reserve […]
Why Target Date Funds Fail Investors: A $3 Trillion Delusion
Morningstar estimates that as of 2022, there is nearly $3 trillion invested in target-date mutual funds. Per Morningstar: Target date strategies remain the investment vehicle of choice for retirement savers.Whether retirement savers in target date funds know it or not, and we presume most don’t, they are mindlessly investing their wealth. The allocations between stocks and bonds […]
No Market Roar Due To War
The devastating damage to humanity from the Israeli-Hamas war that is in and around the Gaza strip should not be diminished or understated – innocent lives on both sides suffer in any conflict. However, the economic impact should not be overstated either. In other words, the hundreds of billions of dollars in financial stock market […]
September JOLTS Report Shows Continued Deceleration In All Trends – Except Layoffs
All of the major metrics in last month’s JOLTS report for August improved, most slightly, but the decelerating trend continued. In this morning’s report for September, that trend continued, as most of the metrics improved or declined very slightly, but the trends remained intact.Here are openings (blue), hires (red), and voluntary quits (gold), all normed […]
Major Asset Classes Performance Review
October was another rough for global markets. With the exception of cash, all the major asset classes fell last month – the third straight month of red ink for all but a handful of markets, based on a set of ETF proxies.Safety has become the indispensable asset, as last month reminds. The iShares Short-Term Treasury […]
