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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: EWQ, FXI, XLF

Jared Cummans — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:07 +0000

This week sees earnings season kick into full gear, and most companies will be trying to shake off the blow that JP Morgan delivered with light revenues on Friday. Earnings season is always a major market mover, but for the US, the past few strong earnings periods have been overshadowed by things like the euro crisis. Financials will be especially key this week as investors will be anxious to hear the projections from big banks and how the euro crisis will affect domestic equities. Below, we outline three ETFs to keep a close eye on as a big week unfolds [see also Lessons Learned From Gold in 2011]: MSCI France Index Fund (EWQ) Why EWQ Will Be In Focus: Early on Friday, it was confirmed by an anonymous EU government source that France would lose its coveted ‘AAA’ rating. Speculation had been swirling ever since December when Standard and Poor’s announced [...]

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ETFs To Play AAA Europe

Michael Johnston — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:49 +0000

As most investors are painfully aware at this point, Europe is not in the best of fiscal shape at present. The continent is in the midst of a prolonged debt crisis that is now threatening the continued existence of the euro, and has transformed the region into a form of portfolio Kryptonite; most investors won’t go anywhere near it. Much of the attention has focused on the handful of countries that maintain massive debt burdens that continue to grow, such as Ireland, Spain, and Italy. As the likelihood that these countries will be able to repay their debts deteriorates, their stocks markets have been beaten down as international investors have fled to calmer markets [see Euro Free Europe ETFdb Portfolio]. And unfortunately, the debt crisis is hardly an isolated incident; a number of European economies, including several fairly large components, are struggling mightily to stay afloat. Many European markets have [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: XHB, EWQ, GTIP

Eric Dutram — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:00:00 +0000

This past week was one of the most volatile in recent memory as traders digested news of an S&P downgrade of American debt and continued uncertainty in the euro zone. Markets oscillated by more than 4% on most days with sharp changes in the final hour of trading being pretty much the norm throughout the week for most well-known equities. Thanks to this turmoil, the original safe haven, gold, added close to $100/oz. in the first three days of trading this week only to see its price retreat from the $1,800/oz. mark to close the week as margin hikes and demand for risky assets limited the yellow metal’s appeal. Investors also saw wild swings in the Treasury market as well, as yields slumped across most maturity levels as investors piled into American government debt to wait out the storm, despite the loss of the AAA credit rating by the world’s most famous [...]

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Four Volatile ETFs For Active Traders

Jared Cummans — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:00:33 +0000

As the ETF industry has continued to expand, now with 1,300+ products to choose from, investors now have more ways than ever to make a play on their favorite market, sector, or region. One of the biggest advantages of ETFs over their mutual fund counterparts is their abundant liquidity; they can be traded intraday just like any other stock, opening up the world to active traders seeking to cash in on the lucrative opportunities offered through the exchange traded world. In fact, there are numerous products that are designed specifically for traders to use on a daily basis, as they offer exposure to volatile sectors that tend to exhibit large movements on an intraday basis. One popular option for trading comes in the form of volatility products; funds that track the VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) tend to experience large movements on a daily basis. But not all investors are comfortable [...]

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Friday’s ETF To Watch: iShares MSCI France Index Fund (EWQ)

Jared Cummans — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:00:31 +0000

Yesterday saw the Dow hit a bump in the road, as major indexes endured a relatively flat day, ending the DJIA’s winning streak. Perhaps the rough day came from a patch of unfavorable earnings from industry leaders like Cisco, or from the report that the Fed’s budget deficit grew another $50 billion during the month of January. Still the biggest news to hit the street yesterday was the address to the nation from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who stated that he will not be resigning, a surprising announcement, as many were under the impression that he would be leaving his post in order to quell the turmoil in his home country. The focus will stay overseas to close out the week, as a major earnings report comes from one of the world’s biggest energy firms based in France [see also Three ETFs To Watch If Roubini Is Right About Europe]. [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch If Roubini Is Right About Europe

Eric Dutram — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:00:20 +0000

As the investment picture has become more clouded over the past few months thanks to mounting obstacles throughout the developed world, many investors have looked to those “experts” with a history of navigating through challenging environments. One increasingly popular economist who has seen his stock soar in the past few years is Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Roubini gained a cult following after his incredibly accurate predictions regarding the events of the recent financial crisis. He foretold the mortgage disaster that has left the American economy in shambles, telling economists at an IMF meeting in 2006 of the coming wave of foreclosures, the MBS mess, and the destruction that was soon to hit major financial institutions around the globe. While many were skeptical of these initial predictions, they were ultimately proven to be right on target–perhaps surprising even Roubini himself. Unfortunately, “Dr. Doom” [...]

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What’s Crushing The France ETF (EWQ)?

Eric Dutram — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:00:56 +0000

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s bold declaration that the European debt crisis is over may have gone a bit too far, but most investors agree that the outlook for the beleaguered continent has improved considerably in recent weeks. Many of the European countries least impacted by the crisis are making changes and implementing reforms in order to prevent a similar situation from affecting their economies in the future. Germany, often considered the most stable and promising euro zone economy, recently made changes to its pension system by raising the minimum age up to 67 years for retirement. The nation also recently cut a planned debt issuance by 30% thanks to higher levels of growth and a moderating budget situation, suggesting that the most populous country in the EU has successfully adverted a crisis and is back on its way to growth. In fact, the iShares MSCI Germany Index [...]

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AdvisorShares Launches Mars Hill Global Relative Value ETF (GRV)

Michael Johnston — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:01:03 +0000

Bethesda, Maryland-based AdvisorShares announced today the launch of the Mars Hill Global Relative Value ETF (GRV), the second ETF product from the company. The new ETF will be actively-managed; instead of seeking to replicate the performance of a particular benchmark, GRV will attempt to generate consistent positive returns in excess of the average annual return of the MSCI World Index. GRV employs a “relative value” approach created by Mars Hill. The idea behind the strategy is to combine long positions in the most attractive country, sector and industry ETFs with equal dollar amounts short in the least attractive country, sector and industry ETFs. In other words, GRV employs a long/short portfolio construction strategy, seeking to profit from the performance spread between long and short positions. Because they have the potential to generate positive returns in either bull or bear markets, long/short strategies have become a favorite tool of investors in [...]

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World Cup Of ETFs: Plays On All 32 Countries

Michael Johnston — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:00:57 +0000

One of the greatest spectacles in sports kicks off in South Africa over the weekend, with 32 countries gathering to compete in the final stages of the World Cup. Even the economists of the world have taken an interest in the upcoming matches; ABN Amro recently released a note predicting that the world economy would benefit more from a German victory than if any other national team were to win. In reality, any connection between success on the soccer pitch and an economic boost would be minimal. The biggest winner over the coming month could be South Africa, which has a chance to display its infrastructure and business environment to the world. To get in the spirit as the competition begins, we run through the 32 competitors, highlighting the ETF options available for each (for more ETF insights, sign up for our free ETF newsletter): Group A France: The iShares [...]

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What’s Killing The France ETF?

Eric Dutram — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:41:09 +0000

European ETFs have been in focus over the past month as debt issues in Greece and other Southern European countries have threatened the stability of the common currency system. With the passage of a nearly $1 trillion bailout plan, many thought that the sovereign debt crisis would be contained, at least in the short-term. However, speculation is already brewing that the plan will not be able to save Greece; even if it does, it will likely cause a recession across much of Europe. “Whether Greece over this time period is really in a position, to bring up the strength to make this effort, I have my doubts,” said Josef Ackermann the CEO of Deutsche Bank recently (see Why The European Bailout Is Just Postponing The Inevitable). While this crisis has caused the decline in many European markets, the damage has been very uneven across the continent. Members of the “PIIGS” [...]

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