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Investing in high quality equities makes strategic sense for long-term investors.

Trends tend to persist. Here, the most recent top upgrades and downgrades to ETFs when screened through the lens of momentum. A equals a strong bullish trend, D equals strong a bearish trend.

Refining margins are softening.

Gold, which has been out of favor the past few years, appears to be building a solid foundation for an extended recovery.