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Performance Summary: Week Ending January 16th, 2026

Analysis, Analysis, Weekly Performance Summary / Deane Gyllenhaal

COMMENTARY: For the week ending January 16, 2026, the S&P 500 slipped about 0.4% as investors balanced encouraging corporate earnings with ongoing economic and policy concerns. Strong results from technology and semiconductor companies supported the market at times, but mixed earnings from financials and uncertainty around Federal Reserve policy kept sentiment cautious. Investors also rotated […]

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Factor Friday: Recent Developments Continue to Support Value over Growth

Factor Friday / Patrick Torbert / MAGS, SOX

January 16, 2026 As 2026 gets underway the clear near-term message from US equities, style profiles and sectors is a near-term shift from Growth towards Value and cyclicality. In many cycles this shift is driven by a combination of earnings abundance and inflation dynamics that underpin “late-cycle” environments. That may be exactly where we are

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MAGS, SOX

Tactical Sector Opportunities as 2026 Begins: Playing a Late-Cycle Expansion with Discipline

Analysis, Tactical Tuesday / Patrick Torbert

We outline tactical opportunities from a longer-term perspective as 2026 starts with sector rotation towards pro-cyclical exposures.

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Performance Summary: Week Ending January 9th, 2026

Analysis, Analysis, Weekly Performance Summary / Deane Gyllenhaal

COMMENTARY: The S&P 500 advanced 1.6% for the week ending 1/9/26, as markets responded positively to a combination of easing inflation signals, stabilizing interest rates, and renewed confidence in earnings growth. Softer economic data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve can remain on hold, keeping financial conditions supportive for risk assets. Leadership expanded beyond mega-cap

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Sector Positioning to Start 2026: Growth, Value, and the Anatomy of a Late-Cycle Expansion

Macro Mondays, Narrations of a Sector ETF Operator / Patrick Torbert

Early 2026 is defined by late-cycle rotation rather than regime change. Broadening earnings, rate volatility, and improving productivity favor cyclical Value sectors tactically, while structural Growth leadership remains intact. Selectivity and balance—not binary style bets—are increasingly critical as expansion matures

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Factor Friday: Value’s Early-2026 Resurgence: Tactical Rotation or Durable Shift?

Analysis, Factor Friday / Patrick Torbert

Value’s early-2026 resurgence reflects rising rate uncertainty, widening earnings participation, and investor demand for near-term cash flows. While not yet signaling a lasting regime change, the rotation underscores late-cycle discipline as markets rebalance away from concentrated Growth leadership toward broader, valuation-aware exposure

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Thematic Thursday: Setting the Table for 2026, From Narrative to Proof

Thematic Thursday / Patrick Torbert

As 2026 begins, thematic investing is shifting from hype to proof, with AI, infrastructure, robotics, and space driven by capital intensity and visibility, while clean energy demands greater selectivity and patience after valuation resets

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Sector Investing in 2025: Bottom Performing Sector-Related ETFs of Last Year

Analysis, Tactical Tuesday / Patrick Torbert / AMZA, DFAR, FCG, FTXN, FXG, JPRE, KBWY, PSCH, RSPR, RSPS, WCLD, XHE, XLP, XOP, XSW

Within ETFSector.com’s roughly 130-ETF universe, 2025’s laggards clustered in real estate, staples, software, and upstream energy as concentration favored AI infrastructure. These underperformers weren’t broken—just out of phase—setting selective rebound potential in 2026 if rates, breadth, or commodities turn improve.

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AMZA, DFAR, FCG, FTXN, FXG, JPRE, KBWY, PSCH, RSPR, RSPS, WCLD, XHE, XLP, XOP, XSW

2026 Sector Investing Outlook: Will the Technology Boom Dominate another Year?

Analysis, Macro Mondays, Narrations of a Sector ETF Operator / Patrick Torbert

Interest-rate direction is a key driver of sector leadership. Falling or stable yields support Technology and Communication Services by easing valuation pressure on long-duration earnings. Rising or volatile rates tend to favor Financials, Energy, and cyclically oriented Industrials, where cash flows are nearer-term and valuations less sensitive to discount-rate shifts.

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Sector Investing in 2025: Top Performing Sector and Sector Related ETFs of 2025

Macro Mondays / Patrick Torbert / FTXL, ITA, MISL, SHOC, SOXQ, SOXX, USD, XAR, XME, XNTK

January 2, 2026 An ETFSector.com Sector Fund Universe Review At ETFSector.com our research encompasses major US sector fund families as well as industry and niche funds that are organized along the GICS structure. In all we curate a universe of more than 150 funds to bring insights to sector investors. Sector ETF performance in 2025

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FTXL, ITA, MISL, SHOC, SOXQ, SOXX, USD, XAR, XME, XNTK

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