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ETFSector.com Strategy Series:  Finding Your Strategy’s Wing Man, Elev8 and EQL

July 2, 2025 At Etfsector.com our goal is to help sector investors come up with strategies that are capable of outperforming the US equity market in any number of circumstances. Our elevate model is an example of an actively managed trend following sector rotation strategy.  That strategy seeks to overweight sectors exhibiting strong stock-level momentum […]

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Worldwide Wednesday: Are ex-US Equities Just a Safety Trade? 

June 25, 2025 Ex-US equities outperformed the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) by >10% from December 2024 through early April 2025.  During that same period (chart below, top panel), US equities lagged ACWI by 4% outlining a clear haven rotation to ex-US shares while equities remained under pressure from trade related anxieties. Two and

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Worldwide Wednesday: US Equities back in the Driver’s Seat vs. Rest of World

May 14, 2025 Positive developments on global trade have investors rotating back to US shares from havens overseas.  In this WWW report we look for clues of emerging leadership in the international space.  Germany and China had seen the most sustained improvement during the correction.  Will the re-emergence of US shares dampen that enthusiasm? While

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Worldwide Wednesday: Continued Outperformance from ex-US Equities Would be a Bearish “Tell” for the S&P 500

April 2, 2025 The rotation out of US Stocks has hit its first potential pivot point at the start of April.  The S&P 500 is retesting March lows after the end-of-month rally got snuffed out at the 200-day moving average last Friday.  The rally came at the expense of ex-US equity performance.  The chart below

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Worldwide Wednesday: Rotation into ex-US Equities has been a Theme of 2025

March 26, 2025 Rotation out of US equities has been a boon for ex-US stocks in 2025.  However, the last 2-weeks have seen a pull-back as investors kick the tires on discounted US shares and take profits from some parabolic moves in European and Chinese equities.  As we’ve mentioned in several of our recent columns,

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Worldwide Wednesday: EAFE Equities Outperforming to Start 2025

February 19, 2025 In mid-January, when we took our last chart-based tour around the globe, we noted that a brief reprieve for ex-US equities coincided with headwinds to US Mega Cap. Growth stocks and that international equities were acting similarly to the “average” stock in the US as proxied by the equal weight S&P 500

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Worldwide Wednesday: Rising Rates have Leveled the Playing Field Between US and ex-US Equities, January 22, 2025

US Large Cap. outperformance vs. the MSCI World Index has plateaued. We think higher rates domestically would likely benefit ex-US equity performance as well as the average US stock pursuant to our big theme “Mega Cap. Growth vs. Everything Else”

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