ETF Trends’ CEO Tom Lydon discusses the Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce ETF (EMQQ) on this week’s ETF of the Week podcast with Chuck Jaffe of the MoneyLife Show. Lydon explains that while some investors remain interested in emerging markets, others are very wary of investing in emerging market funds right now. EMQQ has had a difficult [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 495,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 36,000. Shares of IGN were up about 0.4% on the day.
Shopify Inc. has announced that it is providing funding to nine new tech startups as part of the e-commerce company’s carbon removal purchase plan. The funding, which the Wall Street Journal is reporting totals $13.5 million, will allow these companies to scale, so they can provide more customers with effective and affordable carbon removal solutions. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Passive investing has long been a popular and successful approach to investing, but sometimes opportunities are lost in seeking to track an index due to the constraints that indexing can carry. Gerard O’Reilly, co-CEO of Dimensional, appeared on a recent webcast moderated by Tom Lydon, CEO of ETF Trends, and Todd Rosenbluth, head of research [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Amidst market volatility, high inflation, geopolitical uncertainty, and rising rates, high-yield fixed income may be a good bet this year. Dave Sekera, chief U.S. market strategist for Morningstar, cites a strong economy, low sensitivity to rising interest rates, and a yield advantage over higher-quality corporate and government bonds as the primary factors providing high-yield bonds [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Volatility seems to have been the theme of this first quarter of 2022; inflationary concerns, geopolitical tensions and risks, and rising rates in the U.S. have all created a difficult investing environment. Most major asset classes such as stocks, bonds, and real estate have largely been down for the year so far, and some long [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The revamped R3 Global Dividend Growth ETF (GDVD) launched on the NYSE today. GDVD is actively managed, investing in dividend-paying equity securities. The advisor uses quantitative screens (such as dividend yield, return on invested capital, free cash flow, and revenue growth metrics), followed by qualitative, bottom-up research on both an industry and a company level [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Rising interest rates are souring the taste for refinancing transactions, according to CNBC. When rates rise, this could open up opportunities for exchange traded funds (ETFs) like the Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares (VMBS). As expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points recently, giving mortgage-seekers another [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Russell 3000 ETF (Symbol: IWV) where we have detected an approximate $425.7 million dollar inflow -- that's a 3.5% increase week over week i
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco QQQ (Symbol: QQQ) where we have detected an approximate $679.1 million dollar inflow -- that's a 0.3% increase week over week in outstanding
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust (Symbol: MDY) where we have detected an approximate $358.4 million dollar inflow -- that's a 1.8% increase week ov
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SCHP ETF (Symbol: SCHP) where we have detected an approximate $195.0 million dollar inflow -- that's a 1.0% increase week over week in outstanding u
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (Symbol: QQQM) where we have detected an approximate $116.3 million dollar inflow -- that's a 2.8% increase week over week in
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (Symbol: XLY) where we have detected an approximate $188.6 million dollar inflow -- that's a 0.9%
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco S&P 500— Pure Value ETF (Symbol: RPV) where we have detected an approximate $122.5 million dollar inflow -- that's a 3.3% increase
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF (Symbol: IDEV) where we have detected an approximate $116.4 million dollar inflow -- that's a
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (Symbol: DIA) where we have detected an approximate $228.9 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.7% decre
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Semiconductor ETF (Symbol: SMH) where we have detected an approximate $275.4 million dollar outflow -- that's a 3.1% decrease week over week (from 3
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (Symbol: XLE) where we have detected an approximate $464.9 million dollar outflow -- that's a 1.2% decrease week