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Another Sector ETF To Consider This Month
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 2:15pm | 512Read More...The post-election ebullience surrounding the industrial sector, the fifth-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has been well-documented. The Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLI), the largest industrial exchange-traded fund by assets, is up more than 11 percent over the past month,...
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It Might Be Time For This Type Of Volatility ETF
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 8:39am | 545Read More...For investors focusing on dedicated, equity-based volatility exchange-traded funds, “low” has been the name of the game this year. However, that trend could be starting to change amid a significant recent influx of new assets to the PowerShares S&P 500 High Beta Portfolio (...
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Big Things In A Small Package For This Staples ETF
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 2:29pm | 520Read More...Before proclaiming consumer staples stocks as boring and small-caps as disappointing to this point in 2016, have a look at the PowerShares S&P SmllCp Csmr Stpls Pfo (NASDAQ: PSCC). The PowerShares S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples Portfolio is small-cap cousin of the popular Consumer Staples...
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So Long, Internet Explorer: What Can Microsoft's New Browser Do For The Company?
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 3:59pm | 318Read More...Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has confirmed that it will be doing away with its browser, Internet Explorer (IE), after 20 years and is developing a new browser code-named Project Spartan. Capital IQ analyst, Angelo Zino, was on CNBC Tuesday to discuss what dropping the IE brand will mean...
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U.S. Treasury Seeks To Dampen Corporate Inversion Flood
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 12:01pm | 276Read More...The U.S. Treasury announced Tuesday morning its new action plan to dampen the rate at which mergers and acquisitions are happening. M&A activity has been furious from the end of 2013 and throughout 2014. The Treasury Department thinks that a majority of M&A activity as of late has been...
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Potential M&A Targets In Packaged Goods And Meat Industry
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 3:30pm | 270Read More...Capital IQ Global Market Intelligence team analyzed the metrics in place when General Mills, Inc. (NYSE: GIS) purchased Annies Inc (NYSE: BNNY). At the time of the announcement, Annies had posted revenue growth of 19.3 percent and EBITDA growth of 2.9 percent over the previous 12 months...
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Capital IQ Weighs In On The Details Of Corporate Inversion Statistics
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 3:12pm | 352Read More...Corporate inversions have become a buzzword on Wall Street over the past few weeks. On Monday morning, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said his administration would seek ways to prevent corporate tax inversions. Simply put, data from Capital IQ shows that only 1.4 percent of the global M&A...
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Fox's Canceled Deal With Time Warner Ranks As Second Largest In U.S. History
Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 1:18pm | 268Read More...Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA) canceled bid for Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) ranks as the second-largest cancellation of a U.S. merger and acquisition transaction. Capital IQ stated the total worth of the bid at $98 billion. The only larger deal canceled came in 2000, when MCI Worldcom...
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Risk-Adjust Returns Show Rational Investor Allocation
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 12:23pm | 618Read More...Markets continue to march higher as the Q2 earnings season gets underway. The S&P 500 has returned roughly eight percent YTD. Investors have been correct in choosing equities and high-yield bonds and many participants are wondering how much longer those choices will outperform alternatives...
