A Look Ahead: This Week’s ETFs to Watch

For the first time in four weeks, the S&P 500 closed lower last week, throwing ebullient bulls a curve ball in a process. As is often the case with today's intimately intertwined global financial markets, U.S. stocks were pressure not so much by news here, but headlines from other parts of...

Sell in May and go away? Try again next year. After last week's gains, the S&P 500 is sitting on a 4.4 percent gain for the month heading into Monday's trading session. The benchmark U.S. index now resides less than 40 points away from the lofty 1,700 level. Indeed, this rally has plenty of...

Against the backdrop of some strong earnings reports, a spate of interest rate cuts and other cheery news from global central banks, U.S. stocks again soared last week. The S&P 500 added 1.2 percent while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed one percent. The Nasdaq Composite was the best...

Buoyed by a stronger-than-expected jobs report last Friday, U.S. stocks surged to new highs as the S&P 500 jumped above 1,600 for the first time ever. The Dow Jones Industrial Average spent some trading above 15,000 while the Nasdaq was the best performer of three major U.S. indexes on the...

Last week was another fine one for U.S. stocks as the broader market fought off an array of data points that can only be considered mixed at best to again close higher. With last week's 1.4 percent pop, the S&P 500 is now up 0.8 percent this month and has soared 2.8 percent since April. Still...

Market participants cannot look back on the dour performance turned in by U.S. stocks last week. The one where the S&P 500 slumped 2.1 percent and turned not only its worst weekly performance of 2013, but its worst one week slide since November. Indeed, those statistics must be put in the...

Last week was another strong one for U.S. stocks as the S&P 500 climbed 2.3 percent in what was benchmark index's best performance since the first week of the year. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) is now up 8.7 percent year-to-date. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 2.1 percent and...

At the hands of a mixed batch of economic data last week that culminated in Friday's disappointing March jobs report, U.S. stocks suffered their worst weekly performance of 2013. When all was said and done, the S&P 500 lost nearly one percent on the week and buyers stepped in Friday...

The big news last week was that the S&P 500 finally managed to notch a new all-time high just 1,570 and the benchmark U.S. index did so in a holiday-shortened week. The first quarter is now in the books and it was the best first quarter for U.S. stocks since 1998. Now, a rally that has...

The S&P 500 slid to just its second weekly loss of 2013 last week due in large part to Cyprus roiling global equity markets. Last week started with investors pensive that Cyprus, a nation of just 1.1 million citizens, could be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and departure from the...

U.S. stocks ended last week on a slightly downbeat note, but Friday's glum action was a mere bump on the road of more weekly gains for the major U.S. indexes. Investors might want to cherish the memory of those gains, at least for the next day or two, because Monday's open could be nasty one....

Stocks just keep on chugging higher. Buoyed by a surprisingly strong February jobs report, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial each gained about half a percent last Friday. For the week, the S&P 500 added 2.2 percent and is now just one percent below its all-time high. The Dow made a...

Coming off a volatile week that saw stocks swing between gains and losses due to eurozone flare-ups and the U.S. sequestration issue, investors could be in for more of the same in the week ahead. Stocks are flirting with record highs, but signs are abound that this rally is being challenged and...

Coming off the S&P 500's first weekly loss of 2013, stocks have investors pondering the notion of a near-term decline. With suddenly elevated headline risk, a deep pullback could be in store. This week alone, investors will digest Italy's election results and be forced to contend with the...

U.S. stocks are coming off their sixth consecutive week of higher finishes as earnings news has been supportive of continued upside. About 75 percent of the 341 S&P 500 companies which reported fourth-quarter results have beaten estimates, according to Bloomberg data. Earnings ebullience has...