The USDA had no surprises for corn and beans last week. Now the market will wait for national yield estimates in the August USDA report. 25% of the corn belt is dry, so the next 2 weeks will be ...

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has lost its momentum lately on surging yields, which has led to fears of overvaluation. In fact, the tech sector, which outperformed during the pandemic and has ...

With thousands of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, out there, it's easy for investors to pick a specific strategy and buy into it with just a single holding. Want to invest in tech stocks? There are ...

Suppose you believe that the market is going to go down, what would you do? The normal answer is sell what you have and get out. However, what if you have nothing to sell? Until a couple of years ago, ...

These funds seek to generate returns equal to an inverse fixed multiple of short-term returns of an equity index. The compounding of short-term returns results in performance that does not correspond ...

A version of this article was published in the July 2016 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. It is hard to overstate the risks of owning leveraged and ...

Inverse ETFs are investment vehicles designed to deliver daily returns opposite to a specific index, using derivatives like futures to hedge against market declines or capitalize on bearish trends. As ...

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index entered into correction territory (down 10% from the peak) last week thanks to a steep drop in the big tech stocks. This marks the 70th correction in its 52-year ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...