Investors appear to be warming to small caps as the group is finally outperforming large caps, not just over the trailing week, but also the past month and quarter. Small-cap stocks have had a rough go at it over the past several years, particularly in relation to their large-cap peers in the S&P 500 which […]
A Minor Pullback and the Abandoned Baby
This week, the market saw its fifth-largest pullback since the start of 2019. The S&P 500 peaked the day before Thanksgiving and fell about 2.80% over the following three sessions. We’ve been quite bullish on Stocks over the past few months, and this recent pullback hasn’t changed our outlook. If anything, we view it as healthy, […]
The New High in XLI
One of the US Equity sectors I pay the closest attention to for a read on the broader market is Industrials ($XLI). This is also true for Financials ($XLF) and Technology ($XLK) as these three Sectors are home to many of the most ubiquitous and vital companies in the US economy. They are also some […]
The Lifeblood of Bull Markets: Sector Rotation
We spent a lot of time this year talking about “the safety trade.” We used this term to describe the outperformance we were seeing from some of the defensive sectors of the market, namely Utilities, REITs, and Consumer Staples. These three sectors are now falling out of favor as investors rotate into more cyclical, “risk-on” […]
The Big Banks Are Back
One of the most consistent market criticisms bears have pointed to over the past several years is the lack of participation from banks and Financial stocks as a group. The concern has certainly been warranted as Financials are the worst performing sector outside of Energy and Materials since the market registered record highs back in […]
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