Wednesday March 31st ETF Movers: PSTL, ITB
In midday trading Wednesday, the PowerShares Global Steel ETF (PSTL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.8% on the day. And underperforming Read more…
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Playing The Nuclear ETF (NLR) As Over 200 New Nuclear Plants Are In The Works
“We continue to talk about a Commodity Surge in the uranium industry, which is sure to explode in the years ahead, based on the over 200 new nuclear plants in various stages of planning or Read more…
Traders Seek Bearish Options In The iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)
“As Wall Street awaits the release of several economic reports, options traders sought bearish positions in exchange-traded funds that track specific segments of the market. Among the most Read more…
UBS Is Set To Begin Trading The E-TRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure ETN (MLPI) On April 1
UBS is set to begin trading the “UBS E-TRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure ETN” (MLPI) Tomorrow. The UBS E-TRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure ETN is designed to track the performance of the Read more…
Aberdeen Raises Its Closed-End Funds’ Profile
Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. (“Aberdeen”), a global asset management group managing more $10 billion in closed-end fund assets globally with companies listed on the NYSE, London and Read more…
Invesco PowerShares Licenses Standard & Poor’s SmallCap Sector Indexes
Invesco PowerShares, a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement covering nine Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Sector Indexes Read more…
ETFs With Little Volume But Big Returns
If you speak to a product sales representative from an ETF issuer, you’ll likely hear a consistent message from him or her. And it’s not “if you build it, they will come,” but instead, “if there’s Read more…
Certain Claymore-Advised ETFs Announce Adjournment of Joint Special Meeting of Shareholders
The Claymore-advised exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) listed below have announced that the reconvened Joint Special Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 30, 2010, has been Read more…
Low Volume From The Holiday Should Push These Key Market ETFs Higher
“Dow 11,000 is not far away. It is also possible the powers that be, Treasury, Administration, Federal Reserve will want to make headlines in the news, going into a holiday weekend by slamming Read more…
Tuesday March 30th ETF Movers: ENY, GDX
In midday trading Tuesday, the Claymore/SWM Canadian Energy Income ETF (ENY) is outperforming other ETFs, up about Read more…
Mutual Funds Are Costing Your Retirement In Excess Of One Million Dollars Over ETFs
Mitch Tuchman of MarketRiders.com, discusses with CNN’s Ali Velshi and Christine Roman how mutual fund fees devastate your IRA over many years. Mitch generated a simple list of constants to compare a mutual fund retirement portfolio to an ETF portfolio. What he finds, should make Read more…
How Will The SEC’s Review On Derivative Based Commodity ETFs Fair With The Natural Gas ETF (UNG) And The Oil ETF (USO)
“The SEC announced last week that it would be conducting a review of derivative-based ETF products, and that it would be putting a freeze on the release of additional derivative-based ETF Read more…
Investing In A Pure Play Nickel Exchange Traded Product With This Nickel ETN
“There is currently only one pure-play nickel exchange-traded product on the market right now: the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Nickel Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSE: JJN). You could do worse than Read more…
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