Hello, again: Quick! What’s the best performing sector among the S&P 500’s SPX, +0.02% 11 this week? It’s financials . Incidentally, financials are also the best performing sector so far in August, up over 5%, with Morgan Stanley MS, +0.12%, JPMorgan Chase JPM, -0.02% and Goldman Sachs Group GS, -0.39% helping to drive up values in exchange-traded funds that offer exposure to the sector.
We’ll also talk a little about the playbook for new infrastructure legislation, bets on small-caps versus large and the power move by JPMorgan Chase into ETFs. Rosenbluth notes, however, that JPMorgan’s tactic is different from competitors, like American Century and Fidelity, who recently launched semi-transparent ETFs under the same name as popular mutual funds.
“The XLU historically has been a bond proxy, of course. But its correlation to the 10 Year Note largely has fallen apart in 2021. Whether we blame the Fed for this or not, we shouldn’t ignore the move just because rates aren’t confirming it,” Cappelleri writes.Thinking small? Jefferies’ equity strategist Steven DeSanctis thinks that there’s further value in small-caps, even as inflows into small-cap ETFs have cooled in recent weeks.
DeSanctis and his crew see small outperforming large-caps by 5.50 percentage points in the next year.
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