Nasdaq ETFs

By Natalia Gurushina, Chief Economist, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy, VanEck Central banks in Turkey, South Africa and Brazil delivered hawkish messages. The currencies’ reaction shows that the ones in Turkey and South Africa were more credible. The Turkish central bank kept its policy rate on hold at 17%, as expected. The next batch of inflation prints [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Alejandro Saltiel, CFA, Associate Director of Modern Alpha, WisdomTree Across the globe, quality stocks were among the best performers in 2020, as companies with high profitability maintained an earnings edge despite Covid-19’s impact on the economy. The WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRW), which seeks to track the WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Index (WTDGI), selects companies [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Initial unemployment claims fell by 26,000 last week to 900,000. This was better than expected thanks to a downward revision to the previous week’s tally, but still counts as the second highest level since August and suggests that the sharp increase earlier this month was more than just seasonal volatility. This also marks the second [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Suzanne Smetana, Head of ESG Investment Integration, State Street Global Advisors EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In a dramatic change from the previous administration, we expect the administration of President Joseph Biden to implement a broad range of policy changes meant to mitigate climate risk and bring the US back into the global sustainability conversation. We will be [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By David Schassler, Portfolio Manager and Head of Portfolio and Quantitative Investment Solutions, VanEck The VanEck Vectors® Real Asset Allocation ETF (RAAX®) uses a data-driven, rules-based process that leverages over 50 indicators (technical, macroeconomic and fundamental, commodity price, and sentiment) to allocate across 12 individual real asset segments in five broad real asset sectors. These objective indicators identify [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Key Points: Social media’s suspension of President Trump’s social media accounts should be troubling to everyone, whether you support him or not. Recall Ben Franklin: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Privacy seekers are downloading Signal to replace WhatsApp. Biden’s proposed relief package, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Robert Ross Dear Reader, One of my favorite reads to start off a new year is Byron Wien’s list of 10 surprises, which he’s published for 36 years. While I could spend an entire article debating each point in his 2021 list, today I want to tackle the last part of No. 8: “The equity [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Can Amazon Make It? That was the headline plastered on the front page of BusinessWeek magazine in July 2000. Amazon’s future looked bleak after the tech bubble burst earlier that year. The online shopping pioneer was hemorrhaging cash, forcing it to cut 15% of its workforce. Top fund managers cut Amazon from their portfolios.  And over the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In the past month, Astoria Portfolio Advisors has attracted considerable coverage from acclaimed financial media and news outlets, providing investors with Astoria’s macro-economic and cross-asset perspectives. Topics include: Top ETF picks for 2021 Key investment themes for 2021 Portfolio construction How to prepare one’s portfolio for higher inflation A steepening yield curve Media Links Below [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product, VanEck In this episode, I hang out with Tom Lydon and Dave Nadig of ETF Trends to chat about the advisory business, the shift to digital, ETFs, and what’s ahead for 2021. What Advisors Want Tom and Dave are two stalwarts of the ETF industry providing education and [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

As small cap equities continue to surge, investors may want to consider sprinkling in some gold with the Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEArca: SGDJ). SGDJ tracks small cap gold miners, but weighs its components based on revenue growth and price momentum. SDGJ focuses on price momentum, which helps identify leading junior gold miners driven [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Looking for the next big growth success story? History suggests many top performing companies are those led by a passionate entrepreneur who has the entrepreneurial spirit to take a growing firm to the next level. In the upcoming webcast, Incorporating Entrepreneurial Leadership in Your 2021 Portfolio, Dr. Joel Shulman, Founder, Managing Partner & CIO, ERShares; [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Thanks to an increased reliance on technology last year, given the shift to working at home, among other reasons, thematics really took off. This charge forward should be carrying into 2021. With that in mind, on Thursday, ProShares, a premier ETF provider, launched its first leveraged thematic investing ETFs. ProShares Ultra Nasdaq Cybersecurity (UCYB) seeks investment results, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

After a recent surge in agricultural futures and related ETFs over the past few months, Chicago soybean futures slid almost 4.5% on Friday to their lowest in over a week, as rains across South America boosted crop prospects, generating expectations for increased world supplies. Since supply runs inverse to price generally, the rains resulted in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A China country-specific exchange traded fund targeting environmentally friendly companies has been climbing as the emerging country doubles its new renewable energy capacity. The KraneShares MSCI China Environment Index ETF (KGRN) has increased 53.3% over the past three months, and jumped 160.7% over the past year. The KraneShares MSCI China Environment Index ETF tracks the performance [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Wall Street has cheered the swearing in of President Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. In fact, the S&P 500 witnessed its best Inauguration Day returns of 1.39% since Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, according to Dow Jones Market Data, as qu

A rare earth metals exchange traded fund has been rallying as the Biden administration looks to bolster the country’s future technologies in a new age of defense and security. The VanEck Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX) has increased 33.3% over the past month and 100.9% over the past three months. The VanEck Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

First off … thank you! 2020 is over (finally) and we are grateful to all our Advisors, Brokers, and partners who trust us with your business. We love being able to do this every day and look forward to the future—and in this issue of Markets in Motion ™ we want to focus on two [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds slipped Friday after disappointing earnings results out of Intel and IBM, along with growing concerns over the spike in coronavirus cases across the country. On Friday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) fell 0.1%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) was down 0.3%, and iShares Core S&P [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Cloud computing has been a hot investing area lately thanks to higher demand and stupendous stock market gains of the industry players. It is a process in which data or software is stored outside of a computer, but can easily be accessed anywhere, at any time via the Internet.