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Michael Johnston: With more than 40% of the U.S. market, iShares has long been the leader in the U.S. ETF industry. But in recent years the competition has been gaining ground, thanks in part to more cost efficient products. According to the ETF Industry Association, Vanguard led all ETF Read more…
Michael Johnston: Heading into 2011, many observers of the ETF industry were warning that this year could see a wave of fund closures, as ETFs that were failing to generate positive cash flow for the institutions behind them could be shuttered. That wave of contraction has yet to really play out, as only Read more…
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The past couple of weeks have been very rough for many sectors of the economy as worries over Europe and a slow economy in the U.S. are plaguing a number of companies. This is no more true than in the commodity space, as firms that produce everything from oil to crops are feeling the Read more…
Kevin Grewal: Imbalances in supply and demand continue to take its toll on food prices as the price of meat continues to rise, giving positive support to the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund Read more…
Stock markets have broadly come back so far in 2011, as optimism over growth in emerging nations and some portions of the developed world has outweighed geopolitical concerns Read more…
According to the latest data reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. farmers are expected to increase corn production, which could potentially influence the Teucrium Corn ETF Read more…
The IQ Global Agribusiness Small Cap ETF (NYSE:CROP), launched 3/22/2011, invests in global small cap companies engaged in the agribusiness sector. This includes crop production & farming Read more…
Global X, the New York City-based ETF issuer known for its various country and sector-specific products, continues to be active on the product development front; the firm recently Read more…
IndexIQ, the ETF issuer best known for its lineup of hedge fund replication and county-specific small cap ETFs, announced the launch of a new fund today targeting an increasingly popular Read more…
The relatively peaceful revolution that has played out in Egypt over the last several weeks has come across to the developed world as a push for democracy in a country that has floundered Read more…
Paul Weisbruch of Street One Financial: On March 24 of this year, we published an article to Minyanville titled “ETFs With Little Volume But Big Returnswhich highlighted ETFs and ETNs that Read more…
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Commodities have been in the limelight for much of 2010, as prices have surged all across the board. Perhaps the most notable commodity movement is that of gold, which is currently trading Read more…
As governments continue to place an emphasis on renewable energy, many suggest that the future prospects for corn and sugar cane-based ethanol is promising giving support to the Teucrium Read more…
As supply and demand imbalances continue to take their toll on corn and other agricultural products pushing prices of these commodities higher, the path to prosperity could potentially be Read more…
In midday trading Thursday, the iShares Dow Jones US Consumer Goods (NYSE:IYK) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.35% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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