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The etf industry, big numbers are par for the course. Our analyst Eric Balchunas is used to big numbers. Eric this is no exception. This is the end of the year, the last show, so normally go over weekly. You today numbers are big. 324 billion. That is the second biggest year of etf flows ever. 7 organic growth. Lets look at the top leaderboard of the year. Bti broad market. 31 , that is the best return for the s p since 1997, even though it did not feel like that. Usmv was a shocker. Interesting...

Services and luxury retail. Love them or hate them, etfs are here to stay, and etf nerds get a read on the Broader Market trends. Eric balchunas is very comfortable being known as bloombergs head etf nerd. Eric every week we talk about flows going into etfs. And we talk about flows into active. If you add them together you get a negative number, 150 to 180 billion has flown out of the whole enchilada this year. Thats what this shows, the cumulative flows into u. S. Stock funds have been drifting...

Mixed bag. The dax is down almost 0. 5 . The carmakers dragging on the dax. The ftse 100 is a different story, up 0. 3 . Some individual Companies Making gains. The british pounds giving back more of the gains of the week, 1. 3075. Pearson up after giving up the Penguin Random house it owns. Lets get to more with luke kawa, Bloomberg Cross asset reporter. It seems like this market is more and more moving on individual Company Names and less on a trade resolution or British Election resolution. L...

Overshadowed by allegations of sexual assault. The Prime Minister denies those allegations. The u. S. Ways place down turnt, but asian stocks lower. The king of ipos, ab invevs Budweiser Brewing unit surges on its first day of trading in hong kong. Breaking the trend of lackluster debuts party debuts. We are 30 minutes from the start of european trading. Take a look first off at the treasuries trade in my terminal. This is a threeday chart. A big spike as investors are selling the debt. The ques...

Good afternoon from asia. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Stoxx 600 down. We are expecting more choppy trading on the back of the testimony this week from jay powell. Prospects after we had conflicting signals from the world economy. 1. 12. Ollar coming up, paul the fx calls all the fx calls with david bloom. Tensions between japan and south korea are threatening to wallop much now depends on whether shinzo abe and moon jaein can work out a compromise. A cycle of measures and countermeasures would...

S p 500. You are talking about how investors are happy with the fed decision. This chart suggests they may get happier. A chart of the s p 500. We see theseyear, areas of consolidation as the bulls took outcome of the buyers taking out above the 50 day moving average. In may, that bearish action. There was an area of congestion that went to the sellers. The buyers have stepped up in this area of congestion into todays meeting. Broke to the upside yesterday. You can see less than 1 away from allt...

Reachable . Gus brown, pie in the sky forecast or is this legitimate tax liabilities a reduction are lead to Margin Expansion, share buybacks, 20. 5 times multiple as earnings go up and that gets you 3,000 on the s p. I mean, its not pie in the sky historically, but theres a decent probability that that could happen doesnt mean it will happen or anyone can actually foresee that happening. I think he makes a good case though i thought the note was fairly rational, but think about it, he could hav...

A bowl in this market as well, as it has been for much of the year. It looks like investors are pricing in a high likelihood that the tax bill is going to get past, after some back and forth regarding senator marco rubios vote today. We learned that it sounds like concessions to what he would have happened on the tax credit is getting into the bill. The index isof touched major intraday records today. It is outpacing the gains we are seeing in the major averages today. Thats get a temperature on...

Just a drift now. This is not unusual, going into the end of the year, to see more sideways movement. When we are looking at heist tech stocks or low tech stocks, heres a look at the high tax and low tax index. You do see a gaffe a gap between them. It began this week when it was clear that the bill was going to pass. Again, the lift and then the sideways movement, more or less, even for both of those divisions that we have been watching. Wanted to look at some individual groups as well. Fedex c...

Growth in overall business conditions. Higherthanexpected retail sales, and Online Shopping actually increased more than expected. That underscores the rosie manufacturing data we have been seeing. We are still seeing the conundrum of anemic wage growth, despite the tight job market. We have one company in boston reporting anecdotally that 20 out of a remained open factory with 100 positions, and they were struggling to find highly skilled labor. The Silver Lining though, increased wages are gen...