How Much Is Consumer Spending Still Being Impacted By COVID-19?
Based on Q4 data, it appears consumers have continued and accelerated their prior spending patterns due to trends caused by...
S&P 500 Earnings Season Update: February 5, 2021
More S&P 500 companies are beating EPS estimates for the fourth quarter than average, and beating EPS estimates by a wider margin...
2020 ETF Trends: Opportunity Expands, Fees Contract
Despite 2020’s pandemic, civil unrest, and market gyrations, assets flowed into U.S.-domiciled ETFs at record levels.
Private Markets Year in Review: 2020 Venture Capital Investments
Despite an initial pause in deal making due to the pandemic’s impact in the first half of 2020, venture capital (VC) funding...
Corpus vs. Houston: Reignited Battle for U.S. Crude Exports
Here we explore the competition for new and existing export terminals, and potential for winners and losers in the race to...
Analysts Continue to Raise Quarterly EPS Estimates for S&P 500 Companies in Q1
The first quarter marked the second-highest increase in the bottom-up EPS estimate during the first month of a quarter since Q2...
S&P 500 Earnings Season Update: January 29, 2021
Currently, more S&P 500 companies are beating EPS estimates for the fourth quarter than average and beating EPS estimates by a...
Cyclical vs. Defensive: What We Learned from 2020
In 2020, cyclical stocks performed better than defensive stocks even against the backdrop of a global pandemic and economic...
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day: SFDR’s Past, Present, and Future
SFDR is like many new financial regulations, which, by definition, involve complex data challenges and the design of new...
Analysts’ Dire Predictions for Fallen Angels Failed to Materialize in 2020
When COVID-19 first struck the U.S., analysts estimated that up to $400 billion of corporate debt could be downgraded to junk...
S&P 500 Reporting Net Profit Margin Above 10% for Second Straight Quarter
The blended net profit margin for the S&P 500 for Q4 2020 is 10.3%, below the five-year average of 10.5% and below the year-ago...
S&P 500 Earnings Season Update: January 22, 2021
More S&P 500 companies are beating EPS estimates for the fourth quarter than average, and beating EPS estimates by a wider margin...
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