After a sixth consecutive week of losses, investors will be looking for some indication that the steady losses have been a bit of overkill and that a bounce back is warranted in coming sessions. Equity markets have tumbled past key technical and psychological levels in recent weeks, and anxiety is once again running high both in the U.S. and overseas.
Amidst this string of sell-offs, many of our technicals-based actionable ETF ideas have performed quite well (including a 1.5% jump in JJS last week). With a week full of important data releases ahead, we’re back with three more technical trade ideas featuring a time horizon suited for medium to longer term swing traders given their longer technical analysis perspective and lighter trading volumes during summer days.
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iShares, the issuer behind the $20 billion Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (TIP), has introduced two new ETFs offering exposure to inflation-protected bonds from issuers outside the U.S. The new iShares ETFs include:
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 [...]
U.S. equity markets have posted a strong showing final months of the year following a frustrating “range-bound” period between June and September. December has been a cheerful month overall for investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both soaring to multi-month highs [consider The Problem With Dow ETFs]. Gold has not been [...]
With another round of QE underway and strong demand for raw materials from emerging markets, inflation is once again on the mind of investors. Those looking to protect their portfolios from a surge in CPI have a number of options, ranging from gold to broad-based commodity baskets to equities of commodity-intensive companies. But among the [...]
It’s baaaaaaaack. After a brief hiatus that saw investors rushing to determine the best ways to battle deflation, inflationary concerns have begun to surface again. The cause of the latest bout of inflationary anxiety is of course the QE2 program recently announced by the Federal Reserve that calls for the purchase of hundreds of billions [...]
This past week saw no shortage of events that had the financial world buzzing with activity. The Fed implemented a portion of their controversial quantitative easing plan, buying a number of U.S. Treasury securities in an effort to jump-start our struggling economy. While this policy has been met with mixed reaction at home, it has [...]
Thanks to Ben Bernanke’s $600 billion foray into the U.S. Treasury markets in the hotly debated QE2, many investors have begun to worry that a severe bout of inflation is right around the corner. Renewed anxiety has pushed Treasury Inflation Protected Bonds, or TIPS, to a negative yield in recent auctions, underscoring just how robust [...]
As investors have become more comfortable with the marriage of fixed income exposure and the ETF wrapper, billions of dollars have flowed into bond ETFs in recent years. Impressive innovation in the space has provided investors with more options than ever before, including enhanced granularity in virtually every corner of the fixed income market. Still, [...]
As the ETF world continues to grow, the competitive landscape continues to evolve. In recent years, a growing number of firms have attempted to differentiate themselves by offering unique exposure to asset classes and strategies not previously available–such as funds tracking the Philippine stock market or ETNs linked to the price of industrial metals such [...]
It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that investors around the world were bracing for the fallout from massive stimulus plans implemented to lift the global economy out of a recession. The consensus opinion was that the increase in global money supply stemming from billion dollar capital injections would put firm upward pressure on [...]
