Actively managed exchange traded funds may be better suited than traditional indexing in helping investors better diversify in any type of market environment. In the recent webcast, Navigating Fixed Income Markets: Market Update and Outlook, T. Rowe Price’s head of fixed income, Andrew McCormick, outlined the current conditions we are facing with the interest rate [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Chinese developers could be getting a giant boon from the central bank as defaults continue for smaller companies and Evergrande once again narrowly misses default with a last-minute bond payment. Stocks and bonds in the sector are climbing as a result, reports the Wall Street Journal. Chinese regulators are looking into easing the rules regarding [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF (PBD) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show. This ETF offers exposure to the global clean energy index, including both U.S. and international stocks in the underlying portfolio. PBD also diversifies across various types of clean energy—such as wind, solar, and [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Bitcoin just hit another high near $70,000 the other day, but ether, the native token of the Ethereum network, continues to not only hit record highs but also steal market share from the golden child that is bitcoin. Ether hit close to $4,850 in a new record and has grown more than 560% so far [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The Direxion Daily Technology Bear 3X ETF (TECS) gained 5% during Wednesday’s trading session as a tech sell-off ensued, following inflation data showing that the consumer price index reached a three-decade high. TECS seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300% of the inverse (or opposite) of the daily performance of the Technology Select [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Social media giant Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) is forging into the cryptocurrency and blockchain arenas, potentially the latest sign that major companies see long-term utility in these still-nascent concepts. San Francisco-based Twitter has previously floated crypto-related ideas, but the formation of Twitter Crypto is a meaningful expression of the company’s intent to become a blockchain/crypto player. It [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Small-cap stocks are back in style as of late, and the quality factor, well, that never goes out of style. Put it together, and now is a good time consider the small-cap/quality marriage. Enter the Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF (XSHQ), one of a small number of small-cap exchange traded funds dedicated to the quality factor. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Special envoys from China and the U.S. have announced a cooperation between the two largest greenhouse gas emitters over the climate crisis, reports Financial Times. The two countries made a joint declaration and commitment to working together to tackle climate targets, with China seeming to agree to five-year climate targets that it had previously opposed, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The Fed has announced the beginning of its tapering of bond purchases, 30-year record inflation was recorded for last month, and markets are beginning to build in at least two interest rate increases by the central bank next year to combat inflation. Markets are wobbling, and investors are seeking inflationary hedges as supply chain woes [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The S&P 500 peeled back over the past couple of days, but the benchmark domestic equity gauge is still higher by 7.52% and close to all-time highs. That’s enough for many investors to remain bullish on stocks, and with the S&P 500 up 25% year-to-date, it’s been hard to be bearish. Data also suggest that [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Fiat currencies are relatively new in the history of of humanity, but gold and silver have been around throughout time. Silver often gets overlooked, despite being a store of value like gold as well as an industrial metal with many uses. Here are the top ten reasons to own silver, per a brochure from Sprott [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Investors are putting aside broader investments in sectors and industries in favor of more targeted approaches, reports the annual Global Factor Investing Study by Invesco. The study found that factor investing was on the rise in lots of investment areas, and while it was a good complement for active portfolios, active still had advantages over [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The iShares U.S. Consumer Discretionary ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 333,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 82,000. Shares of IYC were up about 0.1% on the day.
On Thursday, VanEck announced the launch of the VanEck Green Metals ETF (GMET), a new fund that provides comprehensive global exposure to the producers, refiners, processors, and recyclers of the green metals that are essential to the world’s ongoing transition to a low-carbon economy. “New technologies, from electric vehicles to offshore wind farms, cannot function without green [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched three new actively managed thematic ETFs to add to their suite of funds focused on innovation and disruption: the Goldman Sachs Future Consumer Equity ETF (GBUY), the Goldman Sachs Future Health Care Equity ETF (GDOC), and the Goldman Sachs Future Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity ETF (GREI). The funds [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Domestic dividend growth is on a torrid pace this year, and that’s a boon for investors, particularly long-term market participants, because dividends contribute a significant percentage of a portfolio’s total returns over long time horizons. Resurgent payout growth is a boon for an array of exchange traded funds, including yield-oriented strategies such as the ALPS [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The pandemic caused countries and their respective governments to institute travel bans, but as more individuals get vaccinated, more demand for global real estate could result. More countries are starting to lift these travel bans, which comes at a time when interest rates are still relatively low by historical standards. More foreign investors are looking [...] 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 Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares
(Symbol: TNA) where we have detected an approximate $188.2 million dollar outflow -- that's a 11.5% decrease week ov
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco KBW Bank ETF (Symbol: KBWB) where we have detected an approximate $95.6 million dollar outflow -- that's a 2.7% decrease week over week (fro