Nasdaq ETFs

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to investing. Not only do people have their own investing time horizons and risk tolerances, but every year, new investment themes unfold that all of us must navigate in our own way. Thus, our best Charles Schwab funds for 2022 have been s

Consumer Price Inflation rose by 6.8% last month, marking the highest inflation climb since June 1982. Gas prices have jumped 58.1% over the year ending in November, the largest change since April of 1980. “The data add to the case for Fed officials to turn more hawkish at the FOMC meeting next week,” said macro [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

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Confluence Investment Management offers various asset allocation products which are managed using “top down,” or macro, analysis. We publish asset allocation thoughts on a weekly basis in this report, updating the report every Friday, along with an accompanying podcast. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, news broke that a new variant of COVID-19 had been isolated in South [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The passively-managed ETFB Green SRI REITs ETF (RITA) launched on NYSE Arca yesterday. The fund tracks and the index is composed of a portfolio of exchange-listed real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) in developed markets meeting the business, financial, socially responsible investing (“SRI”) criteria, and a number of green investing criteria. It screens out real estate [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Over the past few years, the bar has been raised in ESG investing. No longer do ESG investments merely seek to limit portfolio exposure to controversial stocks or sectors. Today’s leading-edge ESG investments seek to provide portfolio outperformance while also making concrete, measurable impacts for the greater social and/or environmental good. In the upcoming webcast, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Income-minded investors should consider exchange traded funds that cover master limited partnerships or the midstream energy space. On Friday, Wells Fargo analysts provided a positive outlook on the midstream/master limited partnership/renewable energy infrastructure sector based off a midstream, utility, and renewables symposium, TheStreet reports. Specifically, the analysts singled out companies including Energy Transfer (ET), Oneok [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The buffered outcome exchange traded fund suite may be the right type of strategy to consider as we transition to year-end and look to 2022. In the recent webcast, Buffered Outcome ETFs: Participate in Markets, Prepare for 2022 Risk, Charlie Ripley, VP of portfolio management at Allianz Investment Management U.S. LLC, warned that the narrative [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The popular Chinese ride-hailing app Didi is delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and will move to list in Hong Kong instead, reports CNBC. It’s created a shockwave through an already beleaguered market for Chinese investments internationally, and KraneShares’ CIO Brendan Ahern recently spoke with ETF Trends regarding the process and what it means for [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Chinese technology companies looking to expand their operations overseas could push the Direxion Daily CSI China Internet Bull 2X Shares (CWEB) higher after being caught in a downdraft early in the year. Stricter government regulations are forcing technology companies to look outside the country for opportunities. This global expansion comes as companies are still early in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Some investors still view crypto as a fad and too speculative for their risk tolerance, but as the industry continues to grow and innovate, new investment options could help to mitigate the risk profiles that spot exposure carries. Bitwise Asset Management, the world’s biggest crypto index fund manager, offers one such opportunity in its fund [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

U.S. MARKET UPDATE During November, NDR’s global risk-off composite outpaced its risk-on counterpart by more than 500 basis points (bps), it’s largest one-month spread since March 2020. The growing risk-off appetite has been apparent in the Catastrophic Stop model (chart at bottom). At the beginning of the November, the model had an overall reading of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The ETF industry took in $800 billion in net inflows, making 2021 a memorable year thus far, and one area that came to the forefront was infrastructure. In 2020, pandemic-fueled equities favored disruptive technology that investors felt would thrive amid social distancing. In 2021 as global vaccination rates increased, the tide shifted, and that, in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB) has been taking in the most fund flows within the past week, highlighting the recent strength in bank stocks. With the Omicron variant slowly fading away into the background, inflation can now come to the forefront. The Federal Reserve is looking to taper its stimulus measures amid rising inflation, so [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Real estate is a beloved income destination, particularly when interest rates are low, as is the case today. However, investors need to assess the differences between various exchange traded funds in this category. Take the case of the ALPS REIT Dividend Dogs ETF (NYSEArca: RDOG). When it comes to income, RDOG has the goods. The [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Thursday’s trading session brought the debut of Facebook’s “Horizon Worlds,” which marks a step forward for its foray into the metaverse. The social media giant changed it name to “Meta” in October as CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the move to online communities that feature these virtual worlds. In the broader context, the metaverse [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 1.7 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 146,000. Shares of FTXN were off about 1.1% on the day.

The consumer price index released November’s data, revealing somewhat higher-than-anticipated inflationary numbers as inflation continues to accelerate at a pace not seen since 1982, reports CNBC. The CPI rose 0.8% for the month of November in a 6.8% increase year-over-year, the fastest rate of increase since June of 1982. Core CPI, which doesn’t include energy or [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With 2022 right around the corner, plenty of market observers and pundits are opining on what the new year will bring for equities. High up on the laundry list of concerns are inflation and bubble speculation. At this point, it’s clear that inflation is proving far more persistent than originally expected, but there are avenues [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Friday, the First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.2% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Oracle, up about 14.8% and shares of Broadcom, up about 7.3% on the day.