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Michael Johnston: As the number of exchange-traded funds continues to multiply, investors have the ability to achieve increasingly granular exposure to narrow segments of the global economy. This development has worked out quite nicely for investors who utilize a “core and explore” strategy that calls Read more…
Jonathan Yates: The shipping industry exchange-traded fund, Claymore/Delta Global Shipping ETF (NYSEARCA:SEA) continues to sink, but rising fuel costs are also taking their toll on airline operators. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: American Airlines (NYSE:AMR) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Nov. 28, and the move reinforced once again what many have learned the hard way: The airline industry is an incredibly disappointing investment. Read more…
AMR Corporation (NYSEArca:AMR), American Airlines’ parent company, just filed for bankruptcy. But don’t panic at the news; this isn’t one more sign of a bad economy getting worse or, at best, staying stagnant. This is just the sun rising in the east and setting in the Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Bankruptcy filings by American Airlines (NYSE:AMR) today and from General Maritime (PINK:GMRRQ) earlier in the month emphasize the profitability of shorting the exchange-traded fund for airlines, Guggenheim Airline ETF (NYSEARCA:FAA), and for shipping, Read more…
Jonathan Yates: With Quantitative Easing 3 on the way and uber-investor Jim Rogers shorting stocks and going long on commodities, short- and long-term exchange-traded fund plays are in order. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Direxion, the company best known for its suite of leveraged and inverse ETFs, began the process of shutting down one of its few non-leveraged funds, the Airlines Shares ETF (NYSE:FLYX) earlier this week, citing a lack of assets as the main culprit for the fund’s demise. The fund stopped Read more…
Eric Dutram: The new quarter started on a down note across the board, as more fears over Greece and concerns over a hard landing in China weighed on markets. The losses were pretty significant in most sectors although the worst of it was contained to the financial and basic materials corners of the market. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Although Hurricane Irene wasn’t nearly as devastating as some had feared, the storm did knock out power to millions and ground thousands of flights across the Northeast. Yet, the worst of the storm now appears to be over as flights are returning to the skies in major airports in New Read more…
Though most investors will be focused on comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and our U.S. GDP results, there will be another name to remember as we head into the weekend; Irene. Now that we are midway through hurricane season, which lasts from the beginning of June through the end Read more…
This past week was a pretty poor one for markets as a number of solid earnings reports were not enough to shake fears of a U.S. debt default. Republicans and Democrats remained deadlocked over how best to reign in spending and raise the ceiling ahead of the August second deadline, sending Read more…
Todd Shriber: When investors hear the term “pairs trading,” most probably think of foreign currency trading where pairs trading is the most commonly used tactic. In forex trading, a pair is Read more…
As the president of Global Trends Investments and editor of ETF Trends.com, Tom Lydon spends lots of time looking at — you guessed it — trends. And right now the trend is down, and the money flow is clear. “Sector ETFs are not for the average guy… you have to keep a close eye on them” he says, but Read more…
Todd Shriber: Several times in this space I have extolled the virtues of and pointed out cautionary examples regarding inverse ETFs. Overall, I’m a fan of these products when used properly, but the Read more…
In trading on Tuesday, the iPath Inverse Jan 2021 VIX ST Fut ETN (NYSE:IVO) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 12.24% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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