Will Consumer Spending Impact Consumer Goods ETFs?
September 30, 2007 – Consumer goods-related exchange traded funds (ETFs) did not like the news released late last week that the durable goods report for August had the largest monthly drop since January. New orders for manufactured durable... Continue Reading »

Will Amazon’s New Music Store Help or Hurt Technology ETFs?
September 30, 2007 – Technology exchange traded funds (ETFs) could be in for a shakeup as Amazon.com (AMZN) unveiled its highly anticipated digital music store, Amazon MP3, with nearly 3.2 million songs. The store, which opened early last... Continue Reading »

First Leveraged Commodities ETFs Coming Soon
September 30, 2007 – PowerShares is planning to leverage three of its commodity futures exchange traded funds (ETFs) to provide 200% of the daily return of the underlying indexes. If they are approved, these will become the first... Continue Reading »

Austria’s Forecasted Growth Increase Could Boost Its ETF
September 29, 2007 – The Austrian National Bank recently raised its prediction for real gross domestic product (GDP) growth by 0.2 percentage points, which could influence the performance of its exchange traded fund (ETF), iShares MSCI Austria Index... Continue Reading »

Barclays ETNs Surpass $3 Billion in Assets
September 29, 2007 – Barclays launched the first-ever iPath exchange-traded notes (ETNs) in June 2006, and it recently announced that they now have more than $3 billion in assets. Of their eight ETNs, the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Commodity... Continue Reading »

ETFs and Financial Life
September 29, 2007 – Did you know that small changes in your financial rituals and investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs) can improve your personal finances in three months? Dayana Yochim, co-adviser for "Motley Fool Green Light," says... Continue Reading »

WisdomTree Moves Its ETFs to Arca
September 28, 2007 – WisdomTree is one of many exchange traded fund (ETF) providers that is moving its ETFs to the New York stock exchange (NYSE) Arca online listing and trading platform. WisdomTree announced yesterday that starting Oct.... Continue Reading »

September ETF Performance
September 28, 2007 – Another month and quarter has come and gone in the exchange traded fund (ETF) world and fall is in the air.  Although it was a bumpy quarter, The Federal Reserve rate cut helped rally... Continue Reading »