Nasdaq ETFs

By Mike Clark, Consulting Actuary, the Principal Financial Group Much of my role as an actuarial blogger is explaining the behavior of numbers through words, but it takes a lot of words to explain numerical behavior sometimes which leads unfortunately to acronyms. One of the most significant acronyms used in managing pension risk is “LDI” for [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy, WisdomTree The Treasury’s announcement that it would end some of the facilities used by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in the wake of the pandemic-related market dislocations certainly caught observers by surprise. But it’s also important to remember that the key funding market facilities (commercial paper funding, money market mutual fund and primary [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Natalia Gurushina, Chief Economist, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy, VanEck Turkish assets are under pressure – in part due to thin pre-holiday liquidity, but also due to skepticism about the reform agenda. South Africa’s double rating downgrade – not surprising but not welcome either. Turkish assets got “roasted” early during the Thanksgiving week, with [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Eric Fine, Portfolio Manager, VanEck The VanEck Emerging Markets Bond Fund (EMBAX) utilizes a flexible approach to emerging markets debt investing and invests in debt securities issued by governments, quasi-government entities or corporations in emerging markets countries. These securities may be denominated in any currency, including those of emerging markets. By investing in emerging markets debt [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Healthcare stocks and ETFs are continuing to outperform as investors are optimistic about an upcoming vaccine for the coronavirus, which has been a blight on the globe since early this year. There has been some debate as to exactly when the vaccines will be available however. President Trump said on that vaccine deliveries will begin [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With stocks and index ETFs continuing to seek out higher ground, precious metals are falling again, with gold and silver futures augmenting their downtrends from last week. Gold broke below the 200-day SMA, at $1,800 area, to hit its lowest prices in nearly five months, at $1,775, but has since bounced back a bit to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

After almost round-the-year coronavirus-induced fear, the season of festivities — Holiday Season — has now officially set in. It is time for consumers to stack up their shopping carts. Over the last few years, online sales have gained precedence. The coronavirus outbreak has

With much of the world now more accustomed to a shelter-in-place mentality, the coronavirus pandemic has also driven retailers to augment their holiday shopping season, which now includes an early start to Black Friday deals, something that has been a boon for retail ETFs. Black Friday is off to a healthy start, with retail stocks gaining [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A pivotal part of the retirement income-generating and planning equation is setting realistic goals, but it’s common for investors and retirees to want more than is practical. Wanting more usually requires more income, something the Nationwide Risk-Managed Income ETF (NYSEArca: NUSI) is designed to accomplish. NUSI can act as a complement to traditional equity and [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Stocks and index ETFs are attempting to make a run following the Thanksgiving holiday, as Black Friday looks to close out a robust week of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 38 points, or 0.1% before pulling back to breakeven. The S&P 500 advanced 0.3%, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1%. The major stock [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Friday, shares of the SPDR— Gold Shares ETF (Symbol: GLD) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $168.51, changing hands as low as $166.78 per share. SPDR— Gold Shares shares are currently trading off about 1.4% on the day. The chart below sho

Wall Street has been super upbeat in recent sessions on vaccine hopes. The key equity gauges have been hovering around record highs. However, there is an emerging trend, which calls for a shift from growth to value equities. This is because value stocks are really cheap and are c

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (Symbol: TLT) where we have detected an approximate $253.9 million dollar outflow -- that's a 1.4% decrease week

Vaccine optimism has brought back the lure for the cyclical sector ETFs. This is especially true as a vaccine is being viewed as “a beginning to the end” of the pandemic that should lead to a swift recovery in economic growth, leading to higher spending and confidence.The pot

By Fei Mei Chan, Director, Index Investment Strategy, S&P Dow Jones Indices So far, 2020 has brought us a global pandemic, a coordinated global economic shutdown, and, in the U.S., a notably contentious election. So it’s no surprise that volatility has been, and remains, elevated. Despite all this, equities have fared reasonably (some would say surprisingly) [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Amid the latest stock market surge buoyed by COVID 19 vaccine optimism, the energy sector has been on the forefront. Notably, the S&P 500 Energy Index is on track for the best month ever, gaining nearly 40%.The three companies have released encouraging vaccine results from th

Panic With Friends podcast host Howard Lindzon hosted Invesco’s John Hoffman and Nasdaq’s Sean Wasserman to discuss ‘the Mother of All ETFs’ QQQ and investing in innovation. Lindzon is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage and Co-Founder of StockTwits. “Invesco, a global asset management firm, is the father of the QQQ ETF, which launched with [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

China and its financial markets are among this 2020's more remarkable stories.

The holiday season has kicked off with Thanksgiving Day, and now it’s time for Black Friday — one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more Americans have shifted to online shopping in order to avoid gatherings and maintain social distancing

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research, WisdomTree Last week, we had the pleasure of interviewing Baruch Lev, Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance at NYU Stern, on his views about the distortions in earnings statements that make these reports less relevant to investors. Lev wrote The End of Accounting and the Path Forward [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.