Nasdaq ETFs

Amazon’s ingenuity and diversification in shipping early on has placed it in an optimal position in the midst of supply chain snarls that have heavily impacted retailers during the pandemic. Six years ago, Amazon began looking into building its own ocean freight business; now, it charters its own private cargo ships, leases planes, builds its [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Options-based exchange traded fund strategies may help financial advisors diversify a traditional stock and bond portfolio to meet any challenges ahead. In the recent webcast, How Options-Based Strategies May Provide Protection, Ben Jones, senior index strategist at Nasdaq, highlighted the importance of the Nasdaq-100 Index as a prominent component in many investors’ tool kits. The [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In late October, Advocate Capital Management launched the Advocate Rising Rate Hedge ETF (RRH), an active fund that uses Treasury securities and derivatives for a strategy that looks to benefit, should long-term yields increase faster than short-term yields. Recently, ETF Trends and ETF Database’s managing editor Lara Crigger sat down with Advocate’s founder and CEO/CIO Scott [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

According to the Financial Times, some Evergrande investors have not yet received bond payments. With the 30-day grace period expiring on Monday, Evergrande moves closer toward a formal default. Back in late September, Evergrande failed to make an interest payment, sparking volatility across global markets and whispers of a new financial crisis. The danger of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The end of the year generally sees a flurry of activity within the ETF space as advisors and investors move in and out of funds while looking to maximize their tax-loss harvesting. This year is proving to be no different, and the Wall Street Journal recently ran some simulations to discover just how much can be [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

It has been a half a century since consumers were last seriously concerned about inflation, but supply shortages and rising prices have some harkening back to the gas lines and stagflation talks that dominated financial discussions the 1970’s. In this article, we look at the case for continued growth in inflation, explain how officially reported [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Investor sentiment is changing, and while it has yet to change the direction of flows that are buoyed at year’s end by overall strong equity performance, it could be a rising tide going into next year. Volatility continued to see equity markets struggling for the second week in a row, with news of the newest [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The CEF Muni Income ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 323,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 36,000. Shares of XMPT were up about 0.8% on the day.

SUMMARY Buyer fatigue battles positive year-end seasonality and the fear of missing out. Which will prevail? While the NDR Catastrophic Stop Loss Model remains fully invested (bullish), prudence dictates identifying risk tolerance levels into year-end and, if necessary, tightening short-term stop-loss points. SHORT-TERM MESS Before September, certain internal measuring tools negatively diverged from Large Cap [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF, where 22,400,000 units were destroyed, or a 7.2% decrease week over week.

A lot of the strength in copper hinges on China, and the country’s central bank could help catapult copper prices higher given its latest policy moves. China cut its bank reserves requirement to help spur economic growth, and hopefully industrial metals can benefit. Copper prices started the trading week on the right foot. “Copper prices [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Active management has seen a boost in the last year from the interest in ESG funds and the increasing conversion of mutual fund strategies to active ETF counterparts. Peter Lynch thinks the fundamentals have always been strong for active investing and believes that those who are making the move to passive investing are missing out, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Goldman Sachs Future Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity ETF (GREI) is one of the new kids on the block in the world of real estate exchange traded funds, but it’s got the look of a well-timed addition to that fray. Broadly speaking, the real estate sector is impressing this year, and some market observers [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Rob Williams, Director of Research A recent trend in commentaries has had some disturbing elements, including suggestions that a traditional 60/40 portfolio no longer provides diversification, that bonds should be replaced with cash over the longer term, and that Treasuries no longer provide a hedge during equity drawdowns. As a fixed income manager, we’ve [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Tuesday, shares of the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (Symbol: EMXC) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $61.07, changing hands as high as $61.14 per share. iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China shares are currently trading up about 1.4% on

Emerging markets dividends shouldn’t be overlooked by equity income investors. In fact, payouts in developing economies are following developed markets higher this year. That growth highlights the allure of various exchange traded funds, including the Guinness Atkinson SmartETFs Asia Pacific Dividend Builder (ADIV). To be clear, ADIV, as its name implies, focuses on Asian equities, [...] 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 SPDR— S&P— Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (Symbol: XOP) where we have detected an approximate $284.7 million dollar

Merck & Co Inc (Symbol: MRK) has been named a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock by Dividend Channel, signifying a stock with above-average ''DividendRank'' statistics including a strong 3.8% yield, as well as being recognized by prominent asset managers as being a soc