After the first week of 2012, Top Equity News sees the January effect in full effect. Last week, the NASDAQ (2.65%) led the way with all the main indexes up more than 1%. Not only did the index add points, it tallied at least three technical buy signals. The NASDAQ surpassed its 200 day-moving-average for [...]

That was a heck of a start for the year of the Dragon. Apparently, at least for the first trading day, it’s the year of the bull, too. Fittingly, the dragon is the symbol of power and wealth. That’s exactly what stocks did, powered their way up 1.5% and creating wealth for long investors. But [...]

By: Rich B. Meier In yesterday’s Top Equity News’ sector review, we made it a point to highlight sectors that traditionally lead in times of growth planted their flags in the sell column; while more defensive stocks were headed towards the front lines of performance. More evidence that Wall Street, at least for now, is [...]

As Top Equity News glanced over yesterday’s best performing ETFs, clusters from similar veins crowded the top of the leaderboard.  The two most prominent are small/micro-caps and growth-at-a-reasonable price type stocks. However, the exchange-traded-fund that stood out, fatter than the rest is iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility (USMV).  Minimum Volatility, how good does that sound [...]

Written by Rich B. Meier TopEquityNews.com Digging into some of the top-performing ETFs is a great way to find stocks that are moving right now. Since all exchange-traded-funds are designed to mimic the performance of a specific index, Top Equity News looks for clusters of similarly themed ETFs. For example, if a handful of Biotech [...]