By Natalia Gurushina, Chief Economist, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy, VanEck Global China’s recovery is progressing well, with more contribution from consumption and smaller companies. Turkey’s credit-driven growth is putting a lid on external adjustment. The main takeaway from China’s latest activity gauges (Purchasing Managers Indices, PMI) is that the recovery is gaining pace and getting more balanced (smaller supply-demand [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
One of the hottest initial public offerings (IPOs) this year—and the largest software IPO ever to come to the market—was Snowflake, which made its trading debut earlier this month. In last week’s “Behind the Markets” podcast, we hosted Matt Garratt, managing partner at Salesforce Ventures, the global investment arm of Salesforce, who led the investment in Snowflake. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Wall Street had an impressive run in the third quarter of 2020 despite a challenging September. In fact, the market witnessed the best August for the indices of Dow and the S&P 500 since 1984 and 1986, respectively. Moving on, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained aro
Following the previous evening’s U.S. presidential debate, equities responded to the upside in Wednesday’s trading session with a 300-point jump in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. However, the bond markets were sending a nervous signal to the capital markets that there’s still a lot of uncertainty ahead of the election. “Investors in Treasury markets showed [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Many financial advisors may be questioning how the market will look following the U.S election on November 3. Early predictions may show a relatively stable reaction, regardless of the outcome. ETF Trends spoke Chief Investments Officer for AGF Investments LLC, and Head of AGFiQ Alternative Strategies, Bill DeRoche, to discuss what advice there is for [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The world’s largest economy is on track for the most unusual presidential elections this year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc. The first of the three debates concluded in Cleveland. Experts have been describing the debate as raucous, fiery, chaotic and bru
Exchange traded fund investors looking to craft a well-diversified investment portfolio should consider various income strategies in an evolving market environment. In the recent webcast, Building Durable Income for Today’s Markets, Brian Griggs, Vice President, Solutions Specialist, Nuveen, highlighted the copious amount of both fiscal and monetary stimulus measures that have inundated the market, with [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
A recent article in MarketWatch covered a bevy of clean energy exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that investors can look at to shore up their portfolios in the energy sector. The space offers investors a wide variety of alternatives that they can explore, including broad-based funds or specific power sources like solar energy. Per the article, playing [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By J.P Morgan Asset Management As investors grapple with the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, we’re seeing more appetite for yield but less stomach for risk. With rates down and volatility up, the Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF (JMST) offers an opportunity to deliver tax-exempt income while actively managing credit and duration exposures. It’s high time for low duration [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By J.P Morgan Asset Management As investors grapple with the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, we’re seeing more appetite for yield but less stomach for risk. With rates down and volatility up, the Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF (JMST) offers an opportunity to deliver tax-exempt income while actively managing credit and duration exposures. It’s high time for low duration [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
After a sturdy August, Wall Street suffered in September.Doubts over a faster rollout of coronavirus vaccines, rising COVID-19 cases in the United States and Europe, reports of major banks engaging in transfer of illicit funds, profit booking on tech stocks and pre-election vola
By Nyle Bayer for Helios Quantitative Research Depending on who you ask, “it’s already priced in” may be the least helpful phrase in finance. Our friend Barry Ritholtz recently wrote a piece for Bloomberg titled, “The 10 Most Useless Phrases in Financial Markets” and the ninth most useless phrase was “it is already in the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
SPACs give emerging companies both flexibility and control, while investors finally have open access to some of the biggest investment deals in the market. Expanding on this concept, Defiance ETFs has announced the launch of the first SPAC ETF, the Defiance Next Gen SPAC Derived ETF (SPAK), which is now available for trading. SPAK tracks the Indxx SPAC & [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Global investment firm BlackRock is delving into a strategy that it hasn’t accessed in about 10 years. The strategy, using derivative contracts known as swaps, is the foundation for its new exchange-traded fund (ETF) introduced to the European capital markets. “BlackRock has performed a volte-face and launched a swap-based equity exchange traded fund, entering a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Technology stocks and ETFs have been star performers of this year. The coronavirus outbreak could not take the sheen out of this sector but rather added more to it. Social distancing norms enacted globally to mitigate the spread of the virus compelled people to stay at home, bin
The day after the first U.S. presidential debate between hopeful Joe Biden and current president Donald Trump saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average jump 300 points on perceived optimism for a Covid-19 vaccine. Furthermore, industrial exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a nice bump higher with tailwinds from positive economic data. “Exchange-traded funds focused on the industrial [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The initial public offering (IPO) market is red hot as economies continue the re-opening process following the Covid-19 pandemic. This global effort could also help feed into strength for IPO markets in emerging economies. “As COVID pandemic-induced uncertainty enveloped the world’s stock markets, initial public offering activity (IPO) in the emerging markets ground to a halt in the first half [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Marc Odo, CFA®, CAIA®, CIPM®, CFP®, Swan Global Investments 2020 has been an incredibly unpredictable year—but it’s not over yet. As we enter Q4, another rise in COVID-19 infections seems imminent, uncertainty surrounding the election’s outcome is rising each day, and Congress remains at a stalemate when it comes to a highly anticipated pandemic relief package. Since the start [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The iShares Silver Trust (SLV) and the Aberdeen Standard Physical Silver Shares ETF (SIVR) could deliver for investors as the end of year draws closer. Silver prices and related ETFs have surged on improving fundamentals with demand-side support due to the coronavirus uncertainty, stimulus measures, and recovering industrial sector. On the other side, supplies are dwindling [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Allianz Investment Management LLC (AllianzIM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life®), announced the AllianzIM U.S. Large Cap Buffer10 Oct ETF (NYSE Arca: AZAO) and the AllianzIM U.S. Large Cap Buffer20 Oct ETF (NYSE Arca: AZBO), which will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. AllianzIM Buffered [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
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