Tuesday’s Chart To Watch: SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)

February 7, 2012

Stocks drifted lower to start the week as resurfacing Euro zone debt woes brought back the bears. Domestic equity indexes retreated into red territory after European leaders put pressure on Greek lawmakers to meet and accept the conditions of the proposed $171 billion bailout. Investors were spooked as worries intensified after Greek leaders failed to [...]

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Daily ETF Roundup: FXI Slumps On Risk Aversion, UNG Jumps On Cooler Weather

February 6, 2012

Stock markets kicked off the week on a fairly dismal note as Euro zone woes resurfaced over the weekend. On the home front, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq both lost 0.13% on the day, while the S&P 500 clawed its way back up, shedding just 0.04% as the trading session drew to a [...]

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ETF Insider: Will Euro Woes Rain On The Bull’s Parade?

February 6, 2012

Equity markets soared to multi-month highs last week as investors digested encouraging economic data on the home front coupled with positive corporate performance surprises. Wall Street ended the week on a high note after the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%, paving the way for the bulls before Superbowl weekend. Looking forward, with earnings seasons dwindling [...]

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iShares Rolls Out Another India ETF

February 6, 2012

iShares continued to debut new products at an impressive pace on Friday with the introduction of another India ETF. The new MSCI India ETF (INDA) will list on the BATS, joining several other iShares funds on the third-largest U.S. exchange. Last month iShares became the first ETF issuer to list on the BATS, spurning the [...]

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January Roundup: Launches, Filings, and Closures

February 6, 2012

The coming of the new year hasn’t slowed down the rapid pace of the ETF industry, with January showing high levels of activity on the product development front. The first month of the year witnessed the debut of a number of first-to-market products as well as several long-anticipated funds from both large and small issuers [for [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: FXE, IEO, XLP

February 6, 2012

As earnings season comes to an end, investors will have one more week to focus on blue chip quarterly results to help guide their trades and positions. Last week saw earnings come in as a mixed bag, but that all changed on Friday when unemployment figures shattered the mold and dropped to 8.3% with 243,000 [...]

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This Week In ETFs: Three ETF Blogs Worth Bookmarking

February 5, 2012

For advisors and individual investors looking to further their “ETF education,” there is an abundance of material within reach that covers both elementary and advanced aspects of ETF investing. Unfortunately, there’s also quite a bit of bad information out there as well–and separating the wheat from the chaff is sometimes a tall task. Below are [...]

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ETF Insider: Make Way For The Bulls

February 4, 2012

Our bearish suspicions proved incorrect last week as bullish euphoria on Wall Street was bolstered by a string of better-than-expected economic reports. On the home front, construction spending, motor vehicles sales, and jobless claims all beat analyst expectations. The big story was Friday’s employment report, which tipped stocks higher to close out the week after [...]

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Daily ETF Roundup: XLY Surges On Jobs Report, VXX Tumbles 5% On Market Strength

February 3, 2012

Today was one of the best trading days in recent memory. The Dow rose 1.2%, hitting its highest levels since 2008, while the Nasdaq surged 1.6% to its highest level in 11 years; the S&P 500′s return of 1.5% wasn’t too shabby either. The big day was spurned by a better than expected unemployment report [...]

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Oil ETF Review: CRUD Crushing Competition

February 3, 2012

For advisors utilizing ETFs in client portfolios, the details matter. Whether it be the difference in product structure, weighting methodology, or degree of currency exposure, seemingly minor details often end up having a rather significant impact on bottom line returns and overall volatility. The importance of nuanced elements of product structures is particularly important when [...]

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iShares Rolls Out Commodity-Focused Equity ETFs

February 3, 2012

iShares, the largest U.S. ETF issuer in terms of both assets and number of funds, continued the aggressive expansion of its product lineup this week with five new products offering exposure to commodity-related stocks. Each of the new ETFs will compete with existing products offering indirect exposure to natural resources through stocks of companies that [...]

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Friday’s ETF Chart To Watch: iShares Russell 3000 (IWV)

February 3, 2012

Stocks drifted sideways on Thursday as investors were glad to see a better-than-expected jobless claims report, but held off from jumping into the market ahead of today’s pivotal unemployment data. Confidence in the recovery improved as Ben Bernanke testified before Congers, while the latest jobless claims report showed that 367,000 people filed for unemployment, versus [...]

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