Nasdaq ETFs

While stocks and index ETFs have been consolidating recently, some analysts are seeing signs of a summer rally in the Russell 2000. After charging in front of the S&P 500 earlier this year, growth stocks, as measured by the Russell 2000 have begun to slow their pace, largely consolidating over 2021. The iShares Russell 2000 ETF(IWM), which [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Yield is still at historically low levels, but China’s debt market still offers attractive options through assets like the KraneShares CCBS China Corporate High Yield Bond USD Index ETF (KCCB). KCCB seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, track the price and yield performance of a specific fixed income securities index. The [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Low volatility and quality are two distinct investment factors and while they may intersect in some ETFs, it’s often not by design. On the other hand, the FlexShares US Quality Low Volatility Index Fund (NYSE: QLV) makes a point to combine reduced volatility and quality stocks, making it a potentially compelling alternative to standard “low [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

For growth investors seeking disruptive exposure in the healthcare sector, genomics is often a favored destination. The industry pushes an array of advances that can improve diagnoses, disease screening and treatment, and patient outcomes. One frontier for investors to stay abreast of is base editing – the concept of shifting one DNA pair to another. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With stocks trading near their all-time highs as the economy continues to bounce back from the pandemic lows of 2020, Wednesday represents a special day for equity traders and stock index ETF investors: the 125th birthday of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow Jones, which debuted over a century ago with just 12 members, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Capitol Hill and Wall Street are in two different cities, but when they interact on a regular basis, the results can beneficial for investors. A prime example of investors deriving benefit from a policy push is the recent passage of the American Rescue Plan, which fixed income market observers view as a plus for municipal [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Amid ample chatter about rising inflation, investors are scurrying for ideas and strategies to guard against the impact of rising consumer prices. Although much of the talk revolves around transitory inflation, meaning a high Consumer Price Index (CPI) could be fleeting, investors should prepare for a longer-than-expected period of higher prices, and active management may [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With the S&P 500 hovering around its all-time high, short interest in the $357 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY has spiked to the highest this year, according to IHS Markit Ltd. Data, as quoted on Bloomberg. About 4.8% of the fund’s shares is now out on loan.

Chinese stocks offer plenty of promise and growth potential, but integral to allocating to the country is avoiding sources of controversy and geopolitical risk, including state-owned enterprises (SOEs). For advisors, a prime destination for ensuring clients’ emerging markets exposures tilt toward quality while avoiding SOEs is WisdomTree’s emerging markets multi-factor model portfolio. The exchange traded [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Warren Buffet once said that, “diversification is protection against ignorance”. Of course, the other side is true as well: strategies that aren’t adequately diversified run a substantially higher risk of ruin. The goal of this paper is to find a useful approximation for portfolio size that a. increases the potential for alpha (return over benchmark) [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The iShares Global Financials ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 2.1 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 242,000. Shares of IXG were up about 0.6% on the day.

In trading on Wednesday, the Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.9% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Arcimoto, up about 18.5% and shares of Beam Global, up about 17.8% on the day.

Bitcoin has been in the news lately and it is often an inquiry that many investors make.  Most recently, it has been in the news cycle for not the best of reasons.  A little over a month ago, a Bitcoin was priced at nearly $65,000 USD.  As of Friday’s close, it was off -45% from [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The overall earnings picture for the retail sector this season has been solid. Total earnings from 64.7% of the sector’s total market capitalization reported so far are up 61.2% on 12.7% higher revenues, with 90.9% beating EPS estimates and 81.8% beating top-line estima

With the threat of rising interest rates, fixed income investors are opting to shorten duration risk with ETFs like the Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF (VUSB), which has amassed $500 million in assets in just six weeks. Bond portfolios containing longer duration debt are susceptible to rising interest rates, forcing investors to find alternatives. This is [...] 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 ProShares ProShares Short 20+ Year Treasury, where 4,450,000 units were destroyed, or a 11.9% decrease week over week.

Comparing units outstanding versus one week ago at the coverage universe of ETFs at ETF Channel, the biggest inflow was seen in the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF, which added 9,600,000 units, or a 0.8% increase week over week. Among the largest underlying components of IEFA, in m

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the CLOU ETF (Symbol: CLOU) where we have detected an approximate $114.1 million dollar outflow -- that's a 8.2% decrease week over week (from 53,860,00

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco S&P 500— Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF (Symbol: RCD) where we have detected an approximate $75.6 million dollar outflow

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF (Symbol: FLOT) where we have detected an approximate $142.2 million dollar inflow -- that's a 2.3% increase week over