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Stocks ended the day mixed as volume waned. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA) was the only, of the five major indices, to post a loss yesterday, as it closed lower by a modest 0.1%. Higher beta stocks led the day as the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ), small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) Read more…
Eric Dutram: Although stocks started off last week on a down note thanks to growing worries over Europe, markets staged a late session rally in Tuesday trading and carried this into Wednesday and Thursday Read more…
J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) announced today that it has been appointed to sponsor the listing of twenty-one exchange-traded index funds (“ETFs”) advised by First Trust Advisors L.P. (“First Trust”), an SEC-registered investment advisor, on the international segment of the Read more…
The growth of the ETP lineup to 1,300 products and beyond has been fueled largely by the development–and success–of funds other than the “plain vanilla” offerings that offer exposure to well known stock and bond indexes. As the ETF industry has grown in size, it has also become more Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may not be repetitive. The result is a more manageable list of issues from which to Read more…
The Independence Day-shortened week was a tumultuous one for markets as stocks stayed flat for much of Tuesday and Wednesday only to soar higher in Thursday’s session on hopes of a jobs recovery. Unfortunately, this was quickly dispelled by a horrendous June jobs report which saw just Read more…
According to this article published at SeekingAlpha, companies deemed to be engaged in the cloud computing industry are allocated to one of three buckets: Read more…
Two big names in the tech sector are once again stepping on each others’ toes. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have been going at it for years over PCs, MP3s, and smartphones. And Apple and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) had a slightly acrimonious separation when Google expanded into phone software. When Android was first announced, Google CEO Eric Schmidt more or less had to Read more…
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