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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December 9, 2025 Every market cycle has its rhythms, but few relationships are as reliable—and as frequently misunderstood—as the link between rising commodity prices and outperformance in the Energy and Materials sectors. Investors tend to treat commodities as macro noise or inflation signals, yet for the companies that extract, process, or transport those raw inputs,
November 12, 2025 Commodity markets have surged to multi-year highs in the near-term, signaling a broad-based reflation across the raw-materials complex. The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is up roughly 9% year-to-date and gained more than 4% in the third quarter, reflecting strength across metals and precious commodities even as energy and agricultural segments remain mixed.
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November 4, 2025 After a relentless rally fueled by artificial intelligence enthusiasm, resilient corporate earnings, and a dovish monetary narrative, the mood across Wall Street has shifted toward unease. In the past week, several top banking executives, including Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick, have warned that the U.S. equity
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October 28, 2025 Falling interest rates and restrained inflation have been a key context supporting the current equity bull market. A supportive Fed has guided rates lower in the absence of new inflation drivers which has been a boon to asset prices. Given our focus on potential interest rate risk, we wanted to talk about
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September 23, 2025 In 2025, financial markets have exhibited a striking divergence. Commodity-linked equities, particularly in the Energy and Materials sectors (chart below, top panel), have underperformed the S&P 500 and other major benchmarks despite inflation running above central bank targets. At the same time, global equity markets have rallied, even in the face of
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September 17, 2025 Global equities continue to print all-time highs with EM shares leading in the near-term, US shares leadership for the longer-term cycle and EAFE shares typically functioning as the lagging safe haven trade when the tape comes under pressure. At the sector level, the dynamic has been even more exclusive with Tech and
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August 26, 2025 The S&P 500 is showing some signs of rotation below the surface despite the index price continuing to sit near all-time highs. The story of August has been profit taking from the Tech Sector, specifically AI hyper-scalers and other attendant parts of the AI eco-system. The Fed has made dovish noises which
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August 19, 2025 Low vol. stocks have lagged since equities have put in their low in early April of 2025. While we can see from our sector performance chart (below) that this has affected the performance of traditional low vol. sectors in a negative way, it has also had a deleterious impact on the Financial
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July 29, 2025 As July winds down with US and European Equities at all-time highs and EM equities appreciating as well, we come to the tactical concern of how to manage potential profit taking within a strong bull trend. Historically, the seasonal returns for the months of August-October have been the weakest average returns over
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