Another choppy session for equities on Friday gave way to a solid afternoon surge as markets rose to close out the week on a positive note. The Dow jumped by 40 points while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq surged by 0.6% and 0.8%, respectively. While equities climbed higher, commodities slumped in Friday trading as gold and oil were both off marginally and grains and softs also retreated. In the Treasury market, T-Bills continued their slide as yields surged by close to 0.10% for the five, seven, and ten year bonds while the short-term market saw a slight decrease in yields for the day. [click to continue…]
U.S. markets plunged across the board, as rate hike fears in Asia compounded with Irish sovereign debt issues to spook American investors. The Dow and S&P 500 both tumbled by 1.6% on the day, while the the tech heavy Nasdaq was especially hard hit and slid by 1.8%. Commodity markets experienced yet another down session [...]
Equity markets sank across the board on Wednesday, as weakness in the tech sector helped to push stocks down in early trading and major indexes weren’t able to fully recover. The Dow and S&P 500 finished the day lower by 0.7% and 0.4%, respectively, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled by 0.9% after market bellwether Cisco [...]
Innovation has always been a hallmark of the ETF industry, as recent years have seen issuers get creative in efforts to expand the universe of assets available and refine the mechanisms through which such exposure is offered. Some of the latest initiatives have focused in on the commodity space, where issuers are scrambling to come [...]
American equity markets wobbled in the final day of October trading, as investors digested earnings reports and modest GDP growth for the U.S. economy. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 both finished the day at their starting points while the Dow managed to squeak by with a gain of 0.1%. In commodity markets, gold managed to [...]
U.S. stock markets experienced a rocky trading session on Wednesday, as equities plunged to start the day but fought back after noon to pull back almost to breakeven. The Dow and S&P 500 sank by 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively, while the Nasdaq even managed to finish the day in positive territory after surging in the [...]
With the U.S. dollar plummeting, resource-hungry emerging markets racing ahead, and concerns over inflation beginning to pop up, hard assets have been red hot. And ETF issuers are seemingly taking notice, coming up with creative ways to offer investors exposure to natural resources. Just days after JPMorgan filed papers with the SEC detailing plans for [...]
Innovation throughout the ETF industry has been one of the primary themes of recent years, but perhaps no corner of the market has seen more progress on the product development front than the commodity space. U.S. investors now have the ability to invest in dozens of natural resources, primarily through exchange-traded funds than consist of [...]
While many commodities have surged higher in recent weeks, a few have stood out as some of the biggest beneficiaries of a suddenly weak dollar and resurgent global economy. Prices of corn and sugar have jumped significantly higher thanks to supply issues, while silver and gold have surged as investors lose confidence in paper currencies [...]
As optimism over a quick return to growth in the U.S. has waned, many investors have begun to turn their attention to rising superpowers in the developing world. This trend, combined with ongoing speculation over further easing measures, have sent the U.S. dollar tumbling in recent sessions, as several rival currencies have touched new record [...]
U.S. equity markets sank across the board in Wednesday trading with the tech heavy Nasdaq leading the way on the downside, sliding by 0.6%. These losses were followed by more moderate declines in the S&P 500 (down 0.5%) and the Dow (down 0.2%) as traders weighed the prospects of more quantitative easing and weak housing [...]
