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		<title>Rydex&#124;SGI ETFs Get Guggenheim Makeover</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/03/rydexsgi-etfs-get-guggenheim-makeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guggenheim Investments is finalizing its acquisition of Rydex&#124;SGI as the fund provider rebrands the legacy Rydex&#124;SGI ETF line with its own moniker.
According to a press release, as of March 1, 2012, the 27 Rydex&#124;SGI ETFs will trade under the Guggenheim name, with the same ticker symbols and CUSIPs. The ETFs include:

Guggenheim MSCI ACWI Equal Weight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETF Chart of the Day: U.S. Financial Sector</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/etf-chart-of-the-day-u-s-financial-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Weisbruch, Street One Financial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exchange traded funds indexed to the U.S. financial sector were getting a boost Wednesday from Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), which saw its shares vault 4% in the wake of the quarterly earnings report.
Financials have posted impressive gains thus far in 2012, outpacing the broad market as XLF (SPDR Financials) is up 5.54% versus the SPX [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETF Chart of the Day: Financials</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/12/etf-chart-of-the-day-financials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Weisbruch, Street One Financial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With bullish call buyers surfacing in XLF (SPDR Financials) in the options market on weakness in the sector on Thursday, we have an opportunity to examine broad based large cap oriented sector exchange traded funds in the space more closely.
XLF is a market cap weighted product based on the S&#38;P 500 Financials Select Index. Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETF Spotlight: Equal-Weight S&amp;P 500</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/12/etf-spotlight-equal-weight-sp-500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been made of the &#8220;lost decade&#8221; in stocks with the S&#38;P 500 suffering a pair of major sell-offs in the dot-com bubble bursting in 2008 followed by the more recent credit meltdown. However, an exchange traded fund that equal-weights the S&#38;P 500 has held up much better than the market-cap index that many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Considered The Equal-Weight ETF Style?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/03/have-you-considered-the-equal-weight-etf-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Index exchange traded funds (ETFs) hold specific weightings of underlying securities based on market capitalization. Market cap weighting has been the cornerstone of index construction &#8211; look at the Dow Jones Industrials and the S&#38;P 500 Index.  Today investors are warming up to other forms of index construction, like equal-weight indexing the the  ETFs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Regional Bank ETFs Betting on M&amp;A Pickup</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/12/7-regional-bank-etfs-betting-ma-pickup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greater mergers and acquisitions activity in the financial sector has been delivering a nice bump for regional banking exchange traded funds (ETFs).
The Keefe, Bruyette &#38; Woods Regional Bank Index rose 3% this month on regional banking M&#38;A activity, reports Laurie Kulikowski for TheStreet. Morgan Keegan analysts remarked that &#8220;bank M&#38;A is picking up steam&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 ETFs to Play the AIG Comeback</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/12/3-etfs-play-aig-comeback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AIG (NYSE: AIG) is one of the most notorious names in the financial crisis. A couple years after its bailout, it&#8217;s apparently back from the dead and in some exchange traded funds (ETFs), if you want it.
One of the market&#8217;s top performers this year was on life support just a few years ago, reports Serena [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETFs Flat As Jobs Report Digested</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/11/etfs-flat-jobs-report-digested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are being boosted this morning after the government reported that the economy added more jobs in October than most analysts anticipated.
The U.S. Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls increased by 151,000 last month, which is twice the number expected by analysts&#8217; consensus estimates. But the unemployment rate held steady at 9.6% for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look Before You Leap: Know the Holdings of Your ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2009/12/look-before-you-leap-know-the-holdings-of-your-etfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exchange traded funds (ETFs) offer exposure to a wide variety of areas of the markets, but, like a snow flake, each ETF is unique. Two similar-sounding ETFs can vary in their holdings, diversification and trading strategy. It&#8217;s a good idea to look before you leap.
ETFs are disparate in that they have different rules for re-balancing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Bank on a Financial ETF Rebound?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2009/03/can-we-bank-financial-etf-rebound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As banks traverse the financial gauntlet placed before them, some financial institutions are providing some uplifting signs and investors are beginning to look favorably on the downtrodden financial sector and its related exchange traded funds (ETFs).
After Citigroup (C) announced that it was making money in the first two months of the year, some other major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When It Comes to Financial ETFs, Is Equal Weight Better?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2009/02/when-it-comes-to-financial-etfs-is-equal-weight-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus on TARP funds and the governments around the globe has been to save the &#8220;too big&#8221; to fail financial institutions and not focus on smaller banks, often the more sound banks, and the exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track them. 
Not All Are Bad. There are some financial institutions out there that have relatively clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke and Buffett Speak, Markets and Financial ETFs Smile</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2008/08/bernanke-and-buffet-speak-markets-and-etfs-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) rose this morning after some hopeful words from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
He said that while the inflation outlook is uncertain, the recent decline in commodity prices and the stabilization of the U.S. dollar are encouraging signs, report Mark Felsenthal and Alister Bull for Reuters. If this sticks, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financials Ding Markets and ETFs, But Falling Oil Is a Salve</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2008/08/financials-ding-markets-and-etfs-but-falling-oil-is-a-salve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More news about the financial sector sent Wall Street and related exchange traded funds (ETFs) lower, but a further drop in oil prices helped soothe some investors.
JP Morgan (JPM) said it had racked up bigger losses in its mortgage holdings so far in the third quarter than in the second quarter, reports Tim Paradis for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETFs Reacting Well to Sector&#8217;s News</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2008/08/financial-etfs-reacting-well-to-sectors-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial sector and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have seen some rough times this year.
But coming off news of July&#8217;s rebound is a round of news this morning that seems to have things picking up for the sector once again. We reiterate, though, what while things do seem to be picking up, investors would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Assurance Goes a Long Way for Financial ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2008/07/a-little-assurance-goes-a-long-way-for-financial-etfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial-related exchange traded funds (ETFs) surged today after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in no danger of failing.
It was his second day of testimony about the state of the ailing U.S. economy. It was less downbeat than yesterday&#8217;s testimony. Bernanke said the two mortgage giants, which hold or [...]]]></description>
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