Silver Was the Top Performing Commodity in 2020. Will Copper Be Next?
What a way to kick off the new year.
If you happened to watch the storming of the Capitol unfold live on TV on Wednesday of last week, you might have mistaken it for a movie adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel.
Despite the turmoil, stocks have incredibly continued to trade up. On Friday, the S&P 500 opened at a new record high as disappointing jobs numbers sparked hopes of additional fiscal stimulus.
Such spending seems even more likely now that the Democrats have managed to gain control of both chambers of Congress, following Georgia’s special Senate election.
3 Stock Market Predictions for Another ‘Year Like No Other’
By Robert Ross
Investors might have thought they’d seen it all in 2020. But the stock market action was merely a preview of what’s to come in 2021.
Just to take a quick look back, the market gave everyone a scare in 2020 when it bottomed in March. But then the S&P 500 surged 67% between March 23 and year-end.
Certain stocks like
And now, we are going from one “year like no other” to another.
Here’s what I expect the new year will bring for investors…
Prediction No. 1: The Bull Will Still Run in 2021
Compare the best S&P 500 ETFs Well you’re in luck, as there are now many ways you can do this. Mutual funds have been the traditional way that people invested money in the performance of various indices, but in recent times these have lost ground to the simpler and more efficient option of using Exchange-Traded […]
January 14, 2021
Thursday has brought the first ETF focused on exposure to a more ESG-based economy. Direxion officially announced the recent launch of the
Direxion World Without Waste ETF (WWOW). WWOW invests in 50 companies at the forefront of the move to a circular economy from a linear one.
Until recently, the ‘take-make-consume-waste’ of resources within a linear economy has prevailed. Raw material transformed into a product, and after its utility was over, its lifecycle ended, and it became waste. Alternatively, the regenerative framework provided by a circular economy affords companies the ability to address environmental and sustainability priorities, drive innovation, and push for competitiveness while generating growth.
Roaring Back, in Quiet Fashion: 3D Printing and the PRNT ETF
st century. It’s roaring back in quiet fashion as highlighted by the
PRNT debuted nearly three years ago as the first US-listed ETF dedicated to the 3D printing theme. The fund is one of two passively managed products from New York-based Ark Investment Management. ARK believes 3D printing will revolutionize manufacturing by collapsing the time between design and production, reducing costs, and enabling greater design complexity, accuracy, and customization than traditional manufacturing.
Passively managed PRNT offers leverage to its namesake as its benchmark “is composed of equity securities and depositary receipts of exchange-listed companies from the U.S., non-U.S. developed markets and Taiwan that are engaged in 3D printing-related businesses within the following business lines: (i) 3D printing hardware, (ii) computer-aided design (“CAD”) and 3D printing simulation software, (iii) 3D printing centers, (iv) s