Performance Summary: Week Ending February 7th, 2025
COMMENTARY: The S&P500 fell slightly this week, down 24 basis points. The index produced meaningful gains through Thursday and gave most of it back during
February 8, 2025
Author: Deane Gyllenhaal
Deane Gyllenhaal
Deane Gyllenhaal is an ETF and Index strategies industry expert who contributes to ETF Insight, a NY-based digital marketing firm. Deane brings two decades of investment leadership and portfolio construction experience with him. Previously, he was a senior portfolio manager at Geode Capital, Hartford Investments, and State Street Global Advisors.
Performance Summary: Week Ending January 31st, 2025
COMMENTARY: The S&P500 fell this week. Sensitivity to AI related news pushed the markets down early in the week, followed by a slight mid-week recovery.
February 1, 2025
Performance Summary: Week Ending January 24th, 2025
COMMENTARY: The S&P500 rose this week up 1.74%. Some of the economic drivers were; stronger corporate earnings expectations, projected GDP growth, retreated US government yields,
January 26, 2025
Performance Summary: Week Ending January 17th, 2025
COMMENTARY: The S&P500 got back into the green this week, up 2.91%. Wednesday the 15th was the best-performing day since November, driven by a tame
January 18, 2025
Performance Summary: Week Ending January 10th, 2025
COMMENTARY: The S&P500 gave up its prior week’s gain and fell 1.9%. These returns may be driven by investors’ concerns that inflation doesn’t continue its
January 12, 2025
Performance Summary: Week Ending January 3rd, 2025
COMMENTARY: Welcome to 2025! ETFsector.com published great content in 2024 and will be bringing you even more to think about in 2025. Stay tuned!!! The
January 5, 2025
Performance Summary: Year End December 31st, 2024
COMMENTARY: As the ETFsector.com team reflects on 2024, a few of the themes that drove performance this year included: Expanding profit growth: Earnings improved across
January 3, 2025
2024 Representative Fixed Income Index Returns:
After a challenging 2022 and a strong 2023 bounce back, 2024 has been a solid year for fixed income. The Federal Reserve implemented rate cuts
January 3, 2025
Performance Summary: Week ending December 27th, 2024
COMMENTARY: Like everyone settling down for their holiday dinners this week, the markets calmed down relative to last week. Even with a late-week selloff, the
December 28, 2024
Performance Summary: Week ending December 20th, 2024
COMMENTARY: The Grinch got ahold of the markets this week, the S&P500 was down 2% for the period. The S&P500 recovered a bit on
December 22, 2024