August 13, 2025 US equities touched another all-time high yesterday on the S&P 500 index. We’ve touched on our concerns about narrowing market breadth and an absence of new themes here. A lack of dynamism at the stock level is a growing concern for us, even though our trend following model remains bullishly aligned for […]
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August 6, 2025 With August getting under way and US equities starting the month with some corrective price action, we’re looking abroad to see if investors are starting to rotate to any of the havens they sought in our previous correction from February through early April. That correction, which was basis points short of a
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July 23, 2025 As the dialogue on tariffs has evolved over the past months, investor perspective has evolved from a glass half empty (Q1’s near 20% correction) to a glass half full (April/May recovery) to something more optimistic (New all-time highs for US and EAFE equities). At a conceptual level, realignment on global trade away
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July 16, 2025 As the S&P 500 consolidates new highs and positive expectations ramp on global trade resolution we’ve seen ex-US equities in aggregate struggle to keep pace with domestic equities. In our last WWW column we talked about the idea that ex-US equities are likely to remain a haven trade. We also, outlined areas
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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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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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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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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
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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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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