Nasdaq ETFs

By Stephen McBride I’m seeing them pop up more and more. Maybe you are, too. Bold headlines telling you to “forget 5G.” And get ready for—you guessed it—6G! I want to be very clear: At this point, there is no such thing as “6G.” It simply doesn’t exist. I suspect some marketer made up the term 6G [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By William Sokol, Senior ETF Product Manager, VanEck Undervalued bonds which provide excess spread relative to their fair value may be a source of outperformance versus the broad market in credit investing, thanks to their upside potential. However, this does not simply mean buying the highest yielding bonds. Yields and spreads imply risk, and investment [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

I hope all of my American readers and subscribers had a safe, happy Thanksgiving Day and weekend. This year has been exceptionally challenging for a variety of reasons, but I believe there’s still a whole lot to be thankful for. I trust you were able to spend some time with friends and family, whether in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The price of copper is on a tear right now thanks to news that a number of pharmaceutical companies have developed effective vaccines against COVID-19, raising hopes that the world economy will open to full capacity sooner than expected. The industrial metal rose 12.24% in November, its best month in four years. Today it was [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The developing economies are witnessing an increasing group of middle-income consumers who have become reliant on digital devices in the COVID-19 world. With a global pandemic forcing a more digitized lifestyle, we have witnessed an increased adoption of e-commerce or online shopping to meet everyday needs. In the upcoming webcast, E-Commerce and Coronavirus: A Boon [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Corporate America has hoarded the largest cash pile ever, potentially opening up the opportunity for greater mergers and acquisitions down the line and bolstering the case for small-cap companies and exchange traded funds. According to Moody’s Investors Service, cash holdings at non-financial companies expanded to a record $2.1 trillion at the end of June, or [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Energy markets and related exchange traded funds rallied Friday as traders looked to a potential U.S. economic stimulus package and promising coronavirus vaccines to help support the economic recovery, despite rising crude oil supply and Covid-19 infections. On Friday, the Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (NasdaqGM: PSCE) jumped 7.4%, SPDR Oil & Gas Equipment & [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

This has been a rough year for the greenback on an overall basis with Invesco DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund UUP losing about 5.4% so far. The start of the year was bullish for the reserve currency as acute demand for cash amid the coronavirus crisis boosted the greenback’s sa

U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds advanced Friday toward record highs after the disappointing jobs report helped raise bets on a coronavirus stimulus package to support a flagging economic recovery. On Friday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) rose 0.4%, the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) was up 0.7%, and the iShares Core S&P [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show. This ETF offers exposure to a strategy that is largely similar to the popular “Dogs of the Dow” approach that involves a portfolio consisting of the ten components of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Investors looking for high yield in the convenience of an ESG ETF wrapper can consider a fund that combines the best of both worlds. Enter the Xtrackers J.P. Morgan ESG USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (ESHY). In this low yield environment, finding income isn’t getting any easier. On the flip side, ESG exposure is [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Economic Overview December 1, 2020 As we enter the final month of 2020, the strong economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic experienced in Q2 and Q3 finds itself at risk due to a post-Halloween surge in cases both in the US and globally. Economic lock-downs are becoming more prevalent around the world and it’s likely [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The capital markets are banking on a vaccine rally to carry through to the end of 2020 and well into 2021. As the global economy recovers, ETF investors can look to strategies that capitalize on value-oriented holdings like the VanEck Vectors Morningstar Global Wide Moat ETF (GOAT). One of the highlights of GOAT is that [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The hunt for dividend in the equity market is always steady irrespective of how it is behaving. After all, who doesn’t like a steady stream of current income along with capital gains?

Saying that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is growing in popularity is starting to become a broken record in the capital markets. Still, ESG is music to the ears of investors and the issues they care about, which can only bring good karma via ETFs like the Global X Conscious Companies ETF (KRMA). KRMA [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

2020 taught investors many lessons in the capital markets. One resounding theme: you can’t have too much concentrated exposure. In this case, it was too much equities exposure, underscoring the prescience for a multi-asset strategy via ETFs like the Invesco Balanced Multi-Asset Allocation ETF (PSMB). While a multi-asset strategy might sound well and good, how [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Now that electric car maker Tesla is wearing the S&P 500 member’s club jacket, ETF investors might be wondering how they can get a piece of the action without concentrating too much risk in one stock. One strong way to play the automaker is with the iShares U.S. Consumer Goods ETF (IYK). IYK seeks to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Big or small, equities are having a blast amid this vaccine rally. Yet you can’t forget medium-sized companies, which are on their own bull run with ETFs like the Direxion Daily Mid Cap Bull 3X Shares (MIDU) pushing higher. MIDU seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300% of the daily performance of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

E-commerce and online retail are still fairly new concepts in the traditional retail arena, but the novel ideas don’t stop there. Enter the social commerce concept…and the ARK Web x.0 ETF (NYSEArca: ARKW). ARKW aims to capture long-term growth with a low correlation of relative returns to traditional growth strategies and negative correlation to value strategies. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 888,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 131,000. Shares of PICK were up about 2.6% on the day.