Ron Rowland: Not so long ago, telephones were connected to wires. What a quaint idea. How would today’s teenagers survive? Read more…

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Ron Rowland:  If, like me, you’re old enough to remember a time without the Web and e-mail, the fact that you’re able to read an online publication like Money and Markets is impressive. Read more…

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ETFs may have been designed with the long-term, buy-and-hold investor in mind, but as the industry has evolved the potential benefits of the exchange-traded structure have been Read more…

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Continuing a very active month for the ETF industry, State Street rolled out three new sector-specific funds on Thursday. Each of the new products will provide more targeted exposure than the Read more…

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State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today announced that the SPDR S&P^® Transportation ETF (NYSE:XTN), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (NYSE:XTL), and SPDR S&P Healthcare Equipment ETF (NYSE:XHE) began trading on the Read more…

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State Street will begin trading its new “SPDR S&P Telecom ETF” (NYSE:XTL) Thursday, January 27, 2011. The SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before expenses, the performance of an index derived from the telecommunications segment of Read more…

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