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The Federal Reserve continues its inflation crackdown and recently announced a 50-basis points interest rate hike, keeping with market expectations. With this hike, the Fed has raised rates to a targeted range between 4.25% and 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. Given this scenario, exposure to leveraged loans could be beneficial for investors. Invesco Senior […]

CEOs, investors, and analysts are sounding recessionary alarms for the U.S. economy. Experts are primarily concerned about the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes to bring inflation to its 2% target. Indicators such as the inversion of the U.S. Treasury yields, the decline in pending home sales, and the plunge in global freight rates are also increasingly pointing toward a […]

The stock market has experienced a lot of volatility this year, with a sharp spike in inflation and the Federal Reserve’s attempt at taming it by dishing out aggressive rate hikes six times. Recently, the central bank raised rates by 75 basis points for the fourth consecutive time. Although a slowdown of monetary policy tightening is […]

The U.S. economy has posted positive quarterly growth for the first time this year. The economy grew at a 2.6% annualized rate in the third quarter. However, the Fed is widely believed to deliver a fourth consecutive 75-basis-point interest rate hike at its next meeting. The aggressive rate hikes to tame high inflation has caused widespread recessionary […]

The ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) is the flagship fund from ARK Invest, an advisory firm led by renowned investor Cathie Wood. This actively managed ETF seeks long-term capital gain by investing in companies that exhibit disruptive innovation. The companies within the fund cover areas including automation, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics & energy storage, and fintech. […]

The Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU) provides exposure to the utility sector in the United States. The fund uses a replication strategy to track the performance of the Utilities Select Sector Index. Securities from companies in the gas utilities, water utilities, independent power producers, multi-utilities, and utilities for the production of renewable and independent […]

ProShares Short QQQ (PSQ) offers inverse exposure to the NASDAQ-100 index, an index of 100 tech-heavy companies listed on NASDAQ that excludes financials. This exposure is achieved by the fund using a combination of NASDAQ-100 futures, the NASDAQ-100 ETF (QQQ), and swaps on the index itself. After the August inflation report came in hotter than […]

ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) is the flagship actively managed fund from ARK Invest, an advisory firm led by renowned investor Catherine Wood. This ETF seeks long-term capital growth by investing in companies that exhibit disruptive innovation. The companies within the fund cover areas including automation, artificial intelligence, robotics & energy storage, and fintech innovation. ARKK […]

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU) offers exposure to the U.S. utility sector. The fund seeks to track the Utilities Select Sector Index performance, employing a replication strategy. The index includes securities of companies from the electric utilities, water utilities, multi-utilities, independent power and renewable electricity producers, and gas utilities industries. The utility sector provides a […]