Nasdaq ETFs

By Michael W Arone, CFA, State Street Global Advisors “Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no I got to keep on movin’” — Break My Stride, song lyrics by Matthew Wilder, 1983 Throughout summer investors have been inoculated against various potentially infectious market diseases — the Delta variant surge, China’s regulatory crackdown across [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

This season of “The Switch” is focused on the mechanics of ETFs. In this episode, host Ren Leggi, Client Portfolio Manager for ARK Invest, and ETF Trends’ CEO Tom Lydon and CIO Dave Nadig discuss the creation/redemption process, the secret sauce that makes ETFs so special and distinct from mutual funds. When you, the investor, give [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Kara Marciscano, CFA, WisdomTree The semi-annual review and rebalance of the WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD) provides a window into recent developments in cloud companies—with a fresh pipeline of new additions following their initial public offerings (IPOs), which we believe is key to sustaining WCLD’s performance. WCLD follows a rules-based methodology that resets constituents and weights back to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Natalia Gurushina, VanEck Will China’s unexpectedly weak activity gauges lead to a more aggressive policy response? Please note: Emerging Markets Debt Daily will not be published on September 1st– September 6th. We look forward to resuming our daily updates on September 7th. There are downside surprises and there are shockers. China’s August services PMI1was the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

On an August afternoon in 1994, 21-year-old Dan Kohn made history. Kohn had just sold a CD to a man in Philadelphia through his clunky website. The man paid $12.48 plus shipping for a copy of “Ten Summoner’s Tales” by the rock star Sting. Why was this such a big deal? That CD was the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Well, it’s labor day weekend, so I was going to write about labor. But as soon as I started thinking about labor, I started thinking about value, and, well, Ethereum-based smart contracts with a URL pointing to a rock — that’s all NFTs are — are trading for millions of dollars, most advisors scratching their heads [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Scott Welch & Joseph Tenaglia, WisdomTree This article is relevant to financial professionals who are considering offering Model Portfolios to their clients. If you are an individual investor interested in WisdomTree ETF Model Portfolios, please inquire with your financial professional. Not all financial professionals have access to these Model Portfolios. We last wrote specifically [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Michael Cohick, Senior ETF Project Manager, VanEck. At the beginning of July, Moody’s Investors Service released its annual municipal bond market snapshot, US municipal bond defaults and recoveries, 1970-2020, with updates through 2020. In addition to emphasizing their resilience in the face of the COVID-19 (“Covid”) pandemic, the report continues to affirm two hallmark benefits offered [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Patrick Watson, Mauldin Economics. You may have noticed your favorite restaurant is short on staff. The same in retail stores, hotels, and other service businesses. Workers are hard to find now, and it’s not just unemployment benefits. Bigger things are happening. But it’s still odd so many jobs go unfilled, even at higher wages than the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Matthew Poterba, CFA, Senior Analyst Highlights: Latin America remains our favorite Emerging Market region. Sharply accelerating profits, supportive leading indicators, and bargain valuations make Brazil and Latin America overall seem very attractive. At the other extreme, Chinese equities (our favorite from 2019 to early 2021) appear very unattractive because of peaking profits growth, expensive [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The SPDR S&P China ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 917,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 82,000. Shares of GXC were down about 0.4% on the day.

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Sugar exchange traded products are enjoying a nice rush as sugar prices hit a four-year high due to supply concerns in Brazil, where frost decimated cane crops. Year-to-date, the iPath Series B Bloomberg Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: SGG) rose 33.3%, and Teucrium Sugar Fund (NYSEArca: CANE) gained 44.3%. Meanwhile, prices on raw sugar [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

U.S. markets were mixed Friday with growth stock-related exchange traded funds pushing higher after a slowdown in jobs growth eased concerns that the Federal Reserve would tighten its monetary policy any time soon. The Labor Department’s employment report revealed employers only added 235,000 jobs, compared to economists’ expectations of 720,000 new jobs, the Wall Street [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Precious metals and gold and silver ETFs are making moves higher on Friday, reaching month-long highs following August’s disappointing U.S. employment report. Both metals have been moving off their recent lows since early last month, with silver climbing over $2.50 per ounce during that time and gold rallying more than $150 an ounce. On Friday, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) isn’t a dedicated value exchange traded fund. It’s not explicitly dedicated to any of the prominent investment factors, but there are times when MOAT will lean toward growth, value, quality, or a mix of all three. That flexibility is advantageous because MOAT, which tracks the Morningstar Wide [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been a strong play this year, which investors can get with additional global exposure using the FlexShares Global Quality Real Estate Index Fund (GQRE). “Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been stellar performers so far in 2021,” a Kiplinger article said. “The real estate sector’s roughly 30% total return [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The fourth quarter is less than a month away, and investors can start positioning themselves to lessen their tax burden this year with assets like municipal bonds and ETFs like the Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond ETF (VTEB). It’s a prime alternative, especially with tax hikes looming. VTEB allows investors to reap the benefits of municipal bond income [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Housing prices and gold may have more in common than investors think, prompting two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to come into focus. Needless to say, the housing market is scorching hot. While more supply is starting to come into the market, low mortgage rates could still buoy home prices. “Home price growth in the US has [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Innovation-driven by rising demands on the healthcare system can create a strong growth environment for traders using the Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X ETF (CURE). The rising population and improved medical technology is causing individuals to live longer. As such, the healthcare system will be forced to take care of an aging population, which could [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.