Nasdaq ETFs

Given the prolonged market uncertainty of the last 18 months, it’s no wonder that investors increasingly turn to covered calls to maximize equity income potential. Covered call ETFs continue to experience strong inflows this year as investors look to mitigate volatility and capture income opportunities. The enormous popularity of funds like the JPMorgan Equity Premium [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

While concentration has overall increased over the past few months, some sectors have seen more dramatic changes than others. Many investors opt for an equal-weight strategy when getting sector exposure to reduce concentration risk in portfolios. By weighting each constituent company equally, a small group of companies is not able to have an outsized impact [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Invesco’s wide-ranging bank ETFs are among the top-performing equity ETFs over the past week. Bank stocks rallied this week after reporting upbeat second-quarter earnings. The Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), the Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB), and the Invesco KBW Property & Casualty ETF (KBWP) are included in this week’s list of best-performing equity ETFs [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Will economic fundamentals support the new wave of optimism? By the BCM Investment Team Market running ahead of fundamentals. The prospect of an AI-fueled investment cycle as well as strong May jobs numbers propelled the market higher in Q2. Although we believe that many companies have already re-calibrated for a changing economic environment and will [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

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The U.S. has seen lowering inflation, stable growth, and a resilient labor market. However, that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods just yet when it comes to a possible recession. Vanguard forecasted late last year that a recession was imminent in 2023. Now that we’re at the mid-year point, the asset manager still believes [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

It is no secret that the biggest virtual event of the summer is the coming July 24 Fixed Income Symposium. Here’s why advisors can’t afford to miss this event. There’s Never Been a More Exciting Time in Fixed Income Often looked to as the steady (if boring) part of the portfolio, fixed income historically doesn’t [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs ecosystem, reported today that Thematic ETFs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$6.62 Bn during June, bringing year to date net inflows to US$19.11 billion. 

With the Fixed Income Symposium taking place on Monday, July 24, the VettaFi Voices gathered at the water cooler to discuss the current state of fixed income markets. After years of ultra-low interest rates and the current ongoing rate hikes, are fixed income markets back to normal? Does fixed income currently fill the role it [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With the Fixed Income Symposium taking place on Monday, July 24, the VettaFi Voices gathered at the water cooler to discuss the current state of fixed income markets. After years of ultra-low interest rates and the current ongoing rate hikes, are fixed income markets back to normal? Does fixed income currently fill the role it [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

To say the technology sector is dominating the 2023 investment landscape is an understatement and the implications of the group’s impressive year-to-date run extend beyond sheer performance.

It’s been a challenging year for trend-following strategies such as managed futures. Despite prolonged market uncertainty, many funds continue to recover from first quarter crashes. One such fund is the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (DBMF), which seeks to outperform its hedge fund peers over the long term through fee savings and alpha. DBMF [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Invesco S&P 500— Equal Weight Technology ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 364,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 44,000. Shares of RSPT were up about 0.9% on the day.

In the midst of one of the biggest seasonal periods for car buyers in the United States, online used auto retailer Carvana is surging on Wednesday, lifting online retail ETFs, thanks to a debt restructuring agreement that will lower the company’s existing by over $1.2 billion, according to sources from the company. The Tempe, Arizona company, known [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Invesco S&P 500— Equal Weight Technology ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 364,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 44,000. Shares of RSPT were up about 0.9% on the day.

Adoption of renewable energy sources, including wind and solar, is accelerating around the world. In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is developing a penchant for underestimating demand for renewables. That’s a point to consider when evaluating exchange traded funds such as the KraneShares Electrification Metals ETF (KMET). The futures-based KMET holds contracts of the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Friday, the ARK Genomic Revolution ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Twist Bioscience, up about 7.3% and shares of Codexis, up about 6.9% on the day.

The overwhelming majority anticipate that rate hikes will eventually dissipate, but there’s no telling what the U.S. Federal Reserve will do. As such, staying mobile in the fixed income market is important. The Fed has been battling stubborn and sticky inflation, but the June rate pause could mean the central bank has reached a proverbial [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

U.S. stocks have managed to flip one of the main tenets of economics on its head in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis. The U.S. stock market produced a world-leading annualized return of 12% from 2010 through the end of 2022 while maintaining a small deviation from the volatility of the global equity market [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Friday, shares of the Vanguard Utilities ETF (Symbol: VPU) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $147.32, changing hands as high as $148.16 per share. Vanguard Utilities shares are currently trading up about 1.1% on the day. The chart below shows the one