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Stocks closed mostly flat on Tuesday on brisk trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEArca:DIA) and the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) closed fractionally higher, while the S&P 500 (NYSEArca:SPY) and S&P MidCap 400 both slid 0.1%. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEArca:IWM) put in the Read more…
Michael Johnston: ETFs have become so popular in recent years in part because of the tax efficiencies that they offer relative to traditional mutual funds. Due to the nuances of the creation / redemption Read more…
Ron Rowland: ETF Deathwatch membership count increases by twenty for February 2012. Twenty-three new names join the list while only three leave. This marks the fifth month in a row of new record highs being established. The count now stands at 288 (213 ETFs and 75 ETNs). The average age of Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: Oops! They’ve done it again. Maybe. Here’s the evidence that the Fed aborted a mini-recession with Operation Twist, which in association with enlarging its balance sheet by reinvesting dividends from its mortgage-backed securities portfolio was essentially the QE 3 that Jeff Read more…
Ron Rowland: January’s new ETF activity hit the highest level in seven months. After ten days of no introductions, the pace jumped to more than one a day with 23 launches in the last 21 calendar days of the month. So far the new rollouts have been limited to ETFs rather than ETNs. Month-end totals Read more…
Stocks eased modestly on Monday, on very light trade. The major indices chopped around in a tight range for the entire day and eventually closed just below session highs. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEArca:IWM) fell 0.3%, while the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ), DJIA (NYSEArca:DIA)and S&P Read more…
Wall Street was smiling yesterday as stocks ripped higher and the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) claimed an 11 year high. All five major indices posted impressive gains with the small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEArca:IWM) leading the march higher. The small cap index rallied 2.2%. Both the Nasdaq and Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stocks drifted sideways on Thursday as investors were glad to see a better-than-expected jobless claims report, but held off from jumping into the market ahead of today’s pivotal unemployment data. Confidence in the recovery improved as Ben Bernanke testified before Congers, while the Read more…
Noel Archard: Last year, I said one of my hopes for 2012 was that the industry, lawmakers and regulators would continue to explore the development of a classification system for exchange traded Read more…
David Zeiler: The threat of another flash crash caused by high-frequency trading is as great as ever. And the next flash crash could be much worse than the one that shocked investors in May 2010. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: The next 1,000 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEArca:DIA) in either direction are going to be determined by what happens in two cities thousands of miles from our own shores… Athens and Berlin. Read more…
Stocks ended mostly down on Monday, but barely. The S&P 500 (NYSEArca:SPY) was the day’s only winner, as it closed higher by a meager 0.1%. For the second time in as many days, the S&P MidCap 400 closed flat. Both the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average Read more…
Joseph L. Shaefer: The first 10 years of this new millennium were dubbed “The Lost Decade” for investors. 2011 was no different, ending flat for the year. So are the troubles we see so difficult that Read more…
Jared Cummans: ETF investing has surged in recent years as the industry has experienced exponential growth in nearly all aspects of the universe. Now, there are over 1,400 products with Read more…
Equities faded on Friday on mixed trade. Yesterday’s price action pulled all five major indices into negative territory but all five closed well off session lows. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) dropped 0.8%, as the S&P MidCap 400 lost 0.6%. Both the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) and the S&P Read more…
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