SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

NYSE ARCA: SPY
$568.25
-$0.98 (-0.2%)
Closing Price on September 20, 2024

SPY Articles

October may have been one of the best months of many of our lives in equities. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) rose by 10.9%. in October, but the year-to-date gain has been a mere 1.2% from the...
The month of October was a solid month for stocks, one of the best months of our lifetimes.  We have two groups today and the first is the stocks which rose the most in the S&P 500 Index from...
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) has now reported its third quarter earnings report at $3.28 EPS and $26.2 billion in sales.  Thomson Reuters was looking for $3.22 EPS and...
It has become the newest game on Wall Street in the last month to lower global growth targets for 2011 and 2012 over the last six weeks.  What is amazing is that there is still a phantom growth...
The CBOE Volatility Index, or ‘The Fear Index,’ is reaching levels not seen since the height of the August selling panic.  That peaked around 47 in August and we just briefly went back over the...
The DJIA (NYSE: DIA) was trading down 500 points today before a late-day rally.  More European concerns and serious slowing in China’s manufacturing data only brought on more selling.  The week...
Each morning we review our top upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research notes.  We then look back over these at the end of the week to more closely review calls which...
Credit Suisse is downgrading the benchmark targets for the stock market and for economic growth.  Before you panic too much, the Global Equity Strategy group is still maintaining an Overweight...
Federal officials may consider cuts in food stamp programs that serve 46 million people. (Reuters) Housing prices probably continued to fall in July. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Ford (NYSE: F) to...
Usually you would think that a 400 point drop or a 500 point drop in the DJIA (NYSE: DIA) implies that capitulation is upon us.  Right now, the word “hopefully” comes to mind as the greatest...
Updated for the 4PM closing bell….  Do you call it a crash or do you call it a bear market?  Technically this is correction territory now that the 10% pullback has been seen in the Dow Jones...
We have seen a steady climb up again this week in stocks.  The market may have not been in a straight line but it did trend higher.  What we wanted to look at were the key semiconductor ETFs to...
Investors are still trying to key off of which banks can and cannot hike their dividends under Federal Reserve approval.  In short, it is the healthy versus the unhealthy.  We have stated that...
It was just two years ago today that the U.S. markets reached an absolute bottom.  Investors were reeling and the public was literally getting ready for a breakdown of the system.  After bailouts,...
It is almost hard to say it, but the world of exchange-traded products (ETFs, ETNs, etc) hit an almost unbelievable milestone.  The exchange-traded market is now over $1 trillion in assets. ...