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Old Mutual Global Index Trackers to Close U.S. ETFs, Focus on Segregated Account Index Management (GSW, GSR, GSZ, GSO, GSD)

September 26th, 2010

Old Mutual Global Index Trackers (OMGxT), a South Africa-based index tracker asset manager, announced today that the Board of Trustees of Old Mutual Global Shares Trust has approved the Read more…

NYSE:GSD, NYSE:GSO, NYSE:GSR, NYSE:GSW, NYSE:GSZ

Inflation Scorecard: Euro Resists Gold Again (GLD, GDX, GDXJ)

September 26th, 2010

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NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD

What’s Crushing The France ETF? (EWQ, EWG, EWI, EWP, EWU)

September 25th, 2010

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s bold declaration that the European debt crisis is over may have gone a bit too far, but most investors agree that the outlook for the Read more…

NYSE:EWG, NYSE:EWI, NYSE:EWP, NYSE:EWQ, NYSE:EWU

Christopher Jylkka: Bearish Winter For Natural Gas (UNG, UNL, FCG)

September 25th, 2010

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NYSE:FCG, UNG, UNL

Why An ETF Can’t Collapse (XRT)

September 25th, 2010

The last week has been an eventful one in the ETF industry, and not just for the flurry of new product launches from Vanguard, PIMCO, and WisdomTree. A recent article penned by Andrew Read more…

XRT

The Alerian MLP ETF’s Dirty Little Secret (AMLP)

September 25th, 2010

$128 million can’t be wrong – or can it?  Since its launch on August 25, 2010, the Alerian MLP ETF (NYSE:AMLP) has attracted an impressive amount of assets, nearly $128 million in less than a Read more…

NYSE:AMLP

(CANADA) BMO ETFs Reach $1Billion in Assets Under Management

September 25th, 2010

BMO Financial Group today announced that its Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business has reached $1 billion in assets under management only 15 months after entering the ETF market. Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Vanguard to Change Benchmark, Introduce Additional Low-Cost Share Classes of Total International Stock Index Fund

September 25th, 2010

Vanguard plans to change the target benchmark of its Total International Stock Index Fund from the MSCI® EAFE® + Emerging Markets Index to the MSCI All Country World ex USA Investable Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

WisdomTree Launches Industry’s First Commodity Currency Basket ETF (CCX)

September 25th, 2010

WisdomTree (Pink Sheets: WSDT), an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) sponsor and asset manager, announced today the launch of the WisdomTree Dreyfus Commodity Currency Fund (NYSE:CCX) Read more…

NYSE:CCX

Asia’s Digital Dragon: $80 Billion and 1.1 Billion Users by 2015 (CHIB, CQQQ, FXI, EWT, AAPl, ALU, CHA, CHL, BIDU)

September 25th, 2010

With just over 1.3 billion people (as of mid-2008), China accounts for about 20 percent of the world population and needless to say, is the world’s largest and most populous country. Although Read more…

NYSE:CHIB, NYSE:CQQQ, NYSE:EWT, NYSE:FXI

S&P 500 Completely Evades Weekly Gravestone Doji (NYSE:SPY)

September 25th, 2010

Today the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) and all other market indices completely evaded the potential bearish weekly gravestone candlestick that was in force as of yesterday.  The weekly trend Read more…

SPY

This Leveraged ETF Looks To Be A Good Short-Term Trade Here (NYSE:FAZ)

September 25th, 2010

“The Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE:FAZ) — This exchange-traded fund (ETF) seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300% of the inverse of price performance of Read more…

NYSE:FAZ

Precious Metal Sector Reaches Major Resistance (GLD, GDX, GDXJ, SGOL, UGL, DGL, DGP, IAU, DZZ, GLL, UBG, DGZ)

September 25th, 2010

It’s been my expectation that gold would manage to rally at least to $1300 before dropping into the now due daily cycle low. We are now ready to test that theory as gold has tagged $1300 this Read more…

IAU, NYSE:DGL, NYSE:DGP, NYSE:DGZ, NYSE:DZZ, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:GLL, SGOL, UBG, UGL

The Hartford Enters Active ETF Arena

September 25th, 2010

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Connecticut based company with over $380 billion in assets, has filed with the SEC for exemptive relief to launch actively-managed ETFs through a Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

No Starring Role For These ETF Investments (FAZ, SH, SDS, QID, TBT, UGL)

September 24th, 2010

“I have long warned investors about the potential dangers of leveraged and inverse leveraged funds. These funds typically use financial derivatives such as options and futures to leverage the Read more…

NYSE:FAZ, QID, SDS, SH, UGL

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