Nasdaq ETFs

By Kevin Nicholson, CFA, Global Fixed Income CIO, Co-Head of Investment Comittee SUMMARY We believe the median forecast for interest rates for the Federal Open Market Committee in 2024 is 2.125%. In this event, US Public debt would ultimately increase by 0.8% of Gross Domestic Product by our estimates. This increased interest cost should have [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Join an exclusive Market Outlook webcast with ProShares. Hear the company’s insights into today’s markets and the potential investing opportunities of 2022. In the upcoming webcast, 2022 Market Outlook: Optimism for Stocks, Concern for Bonds, and a Look at Digital Assets, ProShares’ Simeon Hyman, global investment strategist and head of investment strategy; Scott Helfstein, executive [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Top Performing Levered/Inverse ETFs Last Week These were last week’s top-performing leveraged and inverse ETFs. Note that because of leverage, these kinds of funds can move quickly. Always do your homework. Ticker Name 1 Week Return (SOXS B-) Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3x Shares 42.24% (UVXY B-) ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF 40.07% (LABD ) Direxion Daily [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

When should you start collecting Social Security to access your government-allotted income distributions? While a retiree can start receiving payments at age 62, they won’t get the full benefits at this age. To claim the full benefits, a retiree should sign up for Social Security at the full retirement age, which is 65 for those [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Elisabeth Kashner, CFA, FactSet In 2021, U.S. fund investors kept on, in high gear. Dollars flowed from active to passive management and from pricey offerings to cheaper ones, deepening secular trends. Flows levels, strategy preferences, and fund fees tell the same story. ETFs Define U.S. Fund Trends Exchange-traded funds (ETF) flows were the highest ever [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Alerian MLP Index is the leading gauge of energy infrastructure MLPs. The capped, float-adjusted, capitalization-weighted index’s constituents earn the majority of their cash flow from midstream activities involving energy commodities.  AMZ is disseminated in real time on a price-return basis, and AMZX on a total-return basis. AMZ’s index yield is 7.45%, compared to utilities [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Value stocks and related exchange traded funds led the rebound off Tuesday’s session lows as traders waited on the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting before committing to any real direction. U.S. benchmarks rebounded off early Tuesday lows, with the S&P 500 dancing around a correction territory, or 10% below its record high. “Uncertainty is what’s behind [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Tuesday, shares of the First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (Symbol: CIBR) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $45.28 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator

Strategas Asset Management announced today the launch of two new actively managed ETFs on the NYSE: the Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (NYSE Arca: SAMT), a rotating thematic fund that invests in three to five macro themes at any given time, and the Strategas Global Policy Opportunities ETF (NYSE Arca: SAGP), a global equity fund focused on [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Investors who are looking to capture strong players in the market can turn to an exchange traded fund strategy that seeks to unearth a new source of outperformance by specifically excluding companies with weak fundamentals. In the recent webcast, Moneyball Investing: To Win Big, Avoid the Losers, Julian Koski, co-founder and chief investment officer of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

There’s not a person on the planet who represents what the future could be more than ARK Invest’s CEO Cathie Wood. With her strong views and innovative thinking, Wood has been dominating headlines for years. Prior to founding ARK in January 2014, Wood has decades of investment, economic, and research experience at top asset managers, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Merger arbitrage is an absolute return strategy of investing in companies involved in pending mergers, takeovers, and other corporate reorganizations, with the goal of profiting from the completion of these transactions.  In the simplest form of a merger arbitrage opportunity, the buyer makes an offer for the target stock, almost always at a premium to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With inflation running hot, getting additional income could mean taking on more risk for the fixed income investor, but there are alternatives that don’t come at a high price. Rising consumer prices are certainly not relegated to the U.S. Countries around the globe are grappling with the same issue, giving fixed income investors headaches around [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Conventional wisdom dictates that high-dividend stocks and the related exchange traded funds are often vulnerable to rising interest rates. However, just because the wisdom is conventional doesn’t mean it’s always accurate. The prevailing thought is that high-dividend sectors often display bond-like traits, and when interest rates rise, pushing up yields on conservative Treasuries, investors find [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Stocks in the disruptive and innovative camps are enduring the brunt of market weakness in early 2022, and that might have some investors doubting the long-term viability of disruptive growth. Investors willing to exercise patience or those capitalizing on the recent spell of weakness in disruptive growth equities and exchange traded funds, such as the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The biotechnology industry is a bifurcated space. In one corner, you have nascent, small-cap companies that don’t yet have steady revenue streams because their new drug or treatment is still in development, hasn’t received FDA approval, or hasn’t been in the market long enough to establish a proven track record. In the other corner, you [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Here’s a look at the three most quoted and tracked large-cap indexes in the U.S, as well as the exchange traded funds (ETFs) that provide an opportunity to invest in them.

A combination of markets pricing in slowing economic growth and rising interest rates is pinching growth and technology stocks this month, but for astute investors, the retrenchment could ultimately prove to be a buying opportunity. It’s a matter of when, not if, technology stocks rebound, and for investors not wanting to stock pick amid the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 701,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 238,000. Shares of DSI were off about 2.5% on the day.

The Biden administration has plans to implement a government strategy around regulating cryptocurrencies next month. An upcoming National Security Council memorandum will instruct federal agencies to investigate the best ways to utilize the opportunities inherent in crypto and mitigate the risks. Cryptocurrencies have long been just outside the edge of the mainstream. But as more [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.