Do Risks Create a Buying Opportunity? (FAA, IYT, XLB, ITB)
Chris Harvey of Weeden & Co. explains why global risks may actually make stocks worth buying. Chris also gives a few ETF Read more…
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Airline Outlook: Is It Time to Buy The Airline ETF? (FAA, DAL, LUV, UAL)
Eric Dutram: The airline industry continues to face challenges from concerns related to business travel and oil prices and the seemingly never-ending market turmoil. The major threat to the airline industry is fuel price volatility, which is, besides hedging techniques, Read more…
Three Industrial ETFs Outperforming Industrial Select Sector SPDR (XLI, GE, UTX, FAA, AXID, IGEM)
Eric Dutram: Although Europe clearly has some severe issues, the situation is much better in the U.S. market. While the jobs picture is still cloudy, the industrial side of the equation is looking much more robust. Read more…
ETF Daily News: Tuesday, February 21st ETF Movers (GAZ, DPU, JFT, FAA)
In trading on Tuesday, the iPath Dow Jones UBS Natural Gas (NYSEArca:GAZ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 19.70% on the day. Also up on the day is the Read more…
ETFs For Planes, Trains, And Automobiles (VROM, IYT, FAA, FDX, UPS, ALK, UNP, LUV)
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…
Global Shipping ETF Keeps Sinking and Airlines Look Nearly As Vulnerable (SEA, FAA, CEA, TAM, AMR)
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…
Why The Economics Of The Airline Industry Are Hopeless (FAA, AMR, SINGY, LUV, JBLU)
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…
American Airlines Bankruptcy Doesn’t Mean the Sky is Falling (FAA)
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…
American Airlines & General Maritime Bankruptcies Create Short Opportunity For Shipping, Airlines
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…
Shorting Transports Into A Possible Commodity Bounce (USO, GLD, SLV, FAA, SEA, FRO, XHB)
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…
FLYX Permanently Grounded: Direxion Shuts Down Airline ETF (FAA, DAL, UAL, LUV, JBLU)
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…
Tuesday’s ETF To Watch: Guggenheim Airline ETF (FAA, LUV, AMR, UAL, DAL)
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…
Time To Buy The Airline ETFs? (FAA, FLYX, USO)
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…
Three ETFs To Monitor As Hurricane Irene Wreaks Havoc (UNG, FAA, KIE)
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…
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