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With growth rates nonexistent in the United States and expectations for future growth muted due to ongoing debt levels and credit problems, investors have turned to other regions of the world to boost their portfolios. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal started this week off with a little article titled “Far From Vanilla: Some Booming ETFs Need More Scrutiny.” Of course the author, TOM LAURICELLA, had to touch on the topic of ultra leveraged ETF’s and the uneducated investor. He uses as an example the ProShares Ultra Real Estate, which aims to double the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index, Read more…
“Coal stocks are generally more volatile than large oil companies. Adding more potential volatility to a portfolio during a bear market is probably a bad idea. Instead, investors should boost volatility after a big decline or as stocks rise. Read more…
“The industrial sector currently has a 10% weight in the S&P 500. Usually it makes sense to underweight the sector when the cycle gets long in tooth and then overweight it after a big decline. You can decide for yourself whether overweighting or underweighting is the better position right now. Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:FLM, PTRP, TAN, XLI
Are speculators driving the price of steel higher? Nobody seems to consider the price movement in steel the real deal. Steel has continued to rise this year despite the slowdown in the world economy. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Barclays Global Investors, N.A. (BGI), the world’s largest Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) provider1, announced today that Markit Group recently announced changes to the methodology of the iBoxx® $ Liquid High Yield Index. Read more…
Press Release
Source: Claymore Investments, Inc.
TORONTO, July 3 /CNW/ – Claymore Investments, Inc. (“Claymore”), the manager of Adjustable Rate MBS Trust (TSX: ADJ.UN – News; “ADJ”) and Claymore Global Monthly Advantaged Dividend ETF (TSX: CYH – News, CYH.A – News; “CYH”, and together with ADJ, the “Funds”) is pleased to announce the successful Read more…
Herbert Lash, writing for Reuters, wrote an article today detailing a recent information sweep performed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The sweep was conducted to determine the suitability of these non traditional & “leveraged” ETF’s for the fund’s Read more…
There is no need to open an account with a Forex dealer to trade currencies anymore. Trader’s will find that ETF’s offer a great way to trade currencies in most countries across the world like the ruble, rand, euro, bhat, zloty, yen, won and the USD along with many others. Read more…
Bloomberg reported this morning that IShares has reached an agreement with Peru’s pension funds that will increase the assets of the first Peruvian exchange traded fund in the U.S. According to Bloomberg, “The Peruvian pension funds, known as AFPs, will swap shares of local companies in exchange for shares in the iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund.” Bloomberg interviewed Gonzalo Presa, Read more…
There are several health care reform plans on tap that the Obama administration has proposed. These plans will cost trillions of dollars that United States does not have. If the US government decides to print more money in supporting these plans, you can protect yourself. Read more…
From ProShares PRESS RELEASE Bethesda, MD, July 2, 2009—ProFunds Group, the world’s largest manager of short and leveraged funds, announced today that it is launching the first ETFs built to provide short and leveraged exposure to the Russell 3000® Index. ProShares Ultra Russell3000 (UWC) is built to Read more…
Bob Pisani with CNBC did a short dissertation on the the Diamonds ETF (DIA) that tracks the Dow Jones Industrial. Bob goes into the weighting methods of the index and how that affects the overall index. Read more…
As the world is dealing with financial armageddon, recently The World Bank revised it’s outlook on the world stating it expects the global economy to contract by 2.9 percent. Some economies will suffer more than others though. Read more…
The First Trust NASDAQ® ABA® Community Bank Index Fund (NASDAQ: QABA) began trading today on the NASDAQ®. It is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that focuses on NASDAQ® listed community banks. First Trust Advisors L.P. (“First Trust”) is the investment advisor for the ETF. Read more…
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