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Utilities, Anyone?

Asset Allocation, Bonds, Fox Feed, Interest Rates, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Portfolio Management, Sentiment Analysis, U.S. Government Debt, U.S. Stock Market, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

With 2016 officially half over, the celebratory nature of the stock market is being masked by another telling trend: Defensive sectors are outperforming higher risk areas. Formerly hot groups drenched with elevated risk like solar energy (NYSEARCA:TAN) and biotechnology stocks (NasdaqGS:IBB) have fallen out of favor and are down more than 20%, putting them into bear …

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Are Momentum Stocks Losing Momentum?

Asset Allocation, biotech, Fox Feed, Industry Sectors, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

Never mind how the U.S. stock market is posting modest year-to-date losses close to 2%. Momentum stocks are up and so is risk taking. A comparison of the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (NYSEARCA:MTUM) – a good proxy for the risk appetite of bullishly trending stocks – versus the S&P 500 (SNP:^GSPC) shows that momentum stocks have not …

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