WisdomTree completed a number of previously announced changes to its ETF lineup this week, making minor changes to seven of the company’s equity funds. Four ETFs received new tickers as a result of the overhaul: [click to continue…]
Equities across the globe continued their sluggish performance for most of last week, and while broad indexes managed to climb into positive territory the last few trading sessions, the week as a whole was fairly turbulent with no real movement in either direction. Gold climbed higher amidst uncertainty in the financial markets, closing the week [...]
With more than 1,200 products in a lineup that adds dozens of new funds every month, navigating through the ETF universe has become an increasingly challenging task in recent years. Innovation in the space has given investors more options than ever before for accessing asset classes and investment strategies that may have previously been out [...]
Last week was relatively quiet on the domestic front, with most major indexes posting a string of relatively uneventful sessions. The real action came overseas, where investors kept a careful eye on the development in Egypt, which have cast uncertainty over much of the global economy for the last few weeks. After Mubarak stepped down [...]
Last week was a roller coaster ride for equities, as markets began the week by plunging, then surged based on strong U.S. data. The week closed out with markets straddling the gain/loss line as U.S. unemployment saw an unexpected jump from 9.6% to 9.8% on Friday. Europe was one of the the main focuses of [...]
In the post-financial crisis world, many have proposed that the global economy is finally starting to “decouple,” as evidenced by the impressive expansion in emerging markets as growth grinds to a halt in the developed world. As the economies of the U.S. and Western Europe have sputtered, soaring economies in some of the world’s fastest [...]
Only a few days into the ninth month of the year, September is shaping up to be a far better month than August, when many benchmarks were pummeled by negative outlooks and a wave of bearish sentiment on Wall Street. After a better-than-expected jobs report sent markets surging to close trading last week, investors will [...]
With the housing market cratering, consumer confidence sagging, and catalysts for real economic growth nowhere to be found, many investors have quietly become pessimistic over the outlook for the U.S. economy. And then there’s the camp that has been much more vocal with forecasts of doom and gloom, a group that includes the always entertaining [...]
After weekend elections failed to produce a clear cut winner in Australia, the country’s political future remains uncertain as the two major parties scramble to hammer out deals with would-be kingmakers. That uncertainty has weighed on financial markets down under in recent days, as investors await resolution on major pieces of policy whose fate could [...]
After surging in the early part of the week, U.S. equity markets slumped back after weak data to finish slightly in the red, further clouding the American economic outlook heading into the key election season in November. The main catalyst for this week’s slump was a sharp rise in new unemployment claims which hit the [...]
While many investors have focused in on emerging markets in order to bring much needed growth to their portfolios, it is a developed economy that has earned the title of the world’s top-performing equity market–since the beginning of the 20th century at least. According to a recent study by Credit Suisse, the Australian stock market [...]
