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The third full week of July saw stocks pull back again with bonds lower too. This has been happening a lot recently, though the first full week in July had strong stocks. Last week, I cautioned on an Energy ETF, XLE. A Look at the Market The S&P 500 has returned 8.9% with dividends included, and the price is up 8.4% for SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) in 2026 so far. This leaves the market on track to post a return for the full year below 20%. At the same time, iShares Core US Aggrega

Last week, I discussed why I like three dividend-focused ETFs, all of which are in my ETF model portfolio. That post was on my blog at Seeking Alpha, to which I no longer have access for writing articles. Why? As I stated last week, I am in the process of closing my two cannabis-related services, 420 Investor and New Cannabis Ventures. While NCV remains open, 420 Investor closed. With the closure, I can no longer post new posts to the blog, which I launched in 2009. I love Se

The ETF market has gotten massive. What is an ETF? It stands for Exchange-Traded Fund, which was invented in Canada in 1990 and introduced in the U.S. in 1993 with the launch by State Street Global Advisors of the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY), which represented the overall market as measured by the Standard & Poors 500, a popular large-cap index. Now, there are so many ETFs, and they have expanded their scope beyond broad markets to very narrow ones. They have moved beyond just s

Stocks had their worst week since the start of the pandemic. Now what?

Rates are falling, but they are rising too! Today, the FOMC is likely to leave short-term Fed Funds unchanged.