On June 3rd, President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 into law suspending the debt ceiling until 2025 and averting a potential U.S. default. One provision of the law will require student loan repayments to resume for millions of Americans at the end of August[1], reducing discretionary income that can be spent in [...]
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It was a busy week for ETF launches and closures. A total of 15 ETFs launched during the week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday, defying the typically slow launch count for weeks surrounding three-day weekends. At the same time, closures continued their steady march to an annual record for 2023. Not only did Fidelity complete [...]
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Evan Harp sat down with financial advisor Ramona Maior. Maior reflected on how financial advisors can better serve LGBTQ+ clients. She offered a number of quick and useful tips for advisors. Evan Harp: What is the biggest challenge financial advisors have when it comes to how they handle LGBTQ+ clients and their issues? Ramona Maior: [...]
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In trading on Monday, the Oil Services ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.3% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Transocean, up about 5.9% and shares of Liberty Energy, up about 3.8% on the day.
The iShares Russell 3000 ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 338,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 125,000. Shares of IWV were trading flat on the day.
Two BulletShares ETFs are seeing sizable flows as investors look for opportunities in the front end of the yield curve. Many investors staying within the short to intermediate part of the curve, opting for balanced fixed income exposure as opposed to making big bets. Jason Bloom, Invesco’s head of fixed income and alternatives ETF Product [...]
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Recent regulatory filings from ONEOK (OKE) and Magellan Midstream Partners, LP (MMP) provide insight into the expected deal synergies. Midstream corporation ONEOK announced last month it will acquire MLP Magellan in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $18.8 billion. The merger is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023, subject to ONEOK and Magellan [...]
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Representatives from KraneShares recently visited China for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. The robust activity they found signals that China is an economy on the mend as business recovers, despite macro challenges. Xiabing Su, cultural analyist at KraneShares, met with members of KraneShares in their first visit to China since 2020. [...]
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2023 has been an extraordinarily confusing year for portfolio managers. Investors have generally brushed off SPY’s +15% YTD rally, presuming it to be merely green shoots in a bear market with a seemingly inevitable correction coming. As Q2 comes to an end, however, it may be time to acknowledge some improvement in macro fundamentals and [...]
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Lithium’s role in clean energy storage and the rechargeable batteries used for hybrid and electric vehicles make it vital to achieving global net-zero decarbonization goals.
One of the world’s most innovative tech companies just debuted a new product in recent days – the Apple Vision Pro. This is a spatial computer headset that blends virtual and actual realities together, creating an augmented reality. Apple is having a go at pricing this new device around $3,500. Will consumers bite at this [...]
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Once again, crypto ETFs led the way among the top weekly ETFs according to data from Logicly. The latest edition of crypto performance suggests that the summer may continue to that out the crypto world. Crypto ETFs took a big hit last year but have offered some of the best performances in ETF land so [...]
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Author: Thomas A. Martin, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager The new Bull Market broke out at the beginning of June. That’s if you go by the 20% rule and use the S&P 500 as your representative index. That’s almost exactly one-and-a-half years since the bear market started at the very beginning of 2022. The bear market [...]
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Last Week’s Macro Data: Headline inflation continued to soften in May as annualized CPI (Consumer Price Index) eased for the eleventh straight month and notched its lowest level since March 2021. Almost all prints cooled from the prior month: Headline CPI was up 4.0% year over year, coming in slightly below the 4.2% forecast and [...]
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Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco QQQ (Symbol: QQQ) where we have detected an approximate $1.3 billion dollar outflow -- that's a 0.7% decrease week over week (from 542,850,0
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares MSCI Mexico ETF (Symbol: EWW) where we have detected an approximate $80.2 million dollar inflow -- that's a 5.2% increase week over week in
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (Symbol: XSD) where we have detected an approximate $157.8 million dollar outflow -- that's a 9.6% decrease week over
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (Symbol: DGRO) where we have detected an approximate $88.1 million dollar inflow -- that's a 0.4% increase week ove
In trading on Monday, shares of the WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund ETF (Symbol: DLS) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $58.88, changing hands as low as $58.27 per share. WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund shares are currently trading d