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For the investors who had been preaching on the need to brace for a surge in inflation in the wake of massive capital injections, credibility continues to slip away. Recent CPI readings have been tame, to say the least; deflation is a more immediate concern even in an environment where inflation rates are expected to remain near record lows for the foreseeable future. [click to continue…]
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Before the onset of the recent global recession, a decade-long commodity boom had delivered handsome returns to investors who established exposure to natural resources, as the prices of everything from apples to zinc climbed steadily on mounting scarcity concerns. During this prolonged run-up grains prices skyrocketed as food crises materialized, with a sharp economic pullback arriving just in time to cool demand and dissolve severe global shortages. [click to continue…]
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In recent years, ETF assets have climbed towards $1 trillion and the number of products has surged past 1,000. Much of the growth in both products and assets has been attributable to commodity ETFs, as investors have embraced the exchange-traded structure as an efficient way to add the benefits of natural resource exposure to their [...]
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After falling off a cliff when the global economy began to sputter in late 2008, most commodities enjoyed a relatively strong recovery throughout the final three quarters of 2009. But when the calendars turned to 2010, fortunes reversed and natural resources began to slide, as a stronger dollar and weakening demand weighed on prices. While [...]
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Recent years have seen the launch of hundreds of new exchange-traded products, many of which offer increasingly granular exposure to various asset classes. The latest innovation comes in the commodity space, where Vermont-based Teucrium Trading LLC filed with the SEC for an ETF that invests in Chicago Board of Trade Corn Futures. The Teucrium Corn [...]
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The surge in popularity of ETFs is often credited with bringing buy-and-hold investors a cost-efficient alternative to traditional actively-managed mutual funds. But ETFs are also responsible for bringing several asset classes previously available only to the largest and most sophisticated individuals and institutions within reach of investors on all levels. While this “democratization” of investing [...]
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Markets trended higher in the holiday shortened week, as the S&P 500 flirted with and then crossed the 1,100 mark. The dollar strengthened throughout the week as debt clouds continue to hang over the euro zone and after the Fed raised the discount rate to 75 basis points. Below, we offer our picks for the [...]
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It’s been an interesting week in the world of ETFs: Greek government debt was downgraded and world leaders continued their climate conference in Copenhagen. Here are the ETF Database staff picks of the week’s most important and interesting stories from around the Web:
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