Another new entrant to this week 10 most searched list is the PureFunds ISE Junior Silver Small Cap Miners/Explorers ETF (NYSEArca: SILJ), which even with Friday’s decline of almost 3% is still up 21% this year. That is good enough to rank SILJ near the top of all non-leveraged ETFs to start 2014.
In other indications that investors are, at the very least, still interested in reading about riskier fare, the Guggenheim Shipping ETF (NYSEArca: SEA) and the Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSEArca: GREK) also appeared in the top-10.
Both ETFs were covered this week, though it is reasonable to surmise that SEA’s status as a direct play on the global economy and GREK’s status as an emerging markets ETF had the pair in the spotlight. [Shipping ETF Searches for More Upside]
Speaking of emerging markets, it was surprising to see that ETFs such as the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: EEM) and the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (NYSEArca: EWZ) finished just outside the top-10. The caveat there is we cull search data Friday afternoon, so there is a good chance that by Saturday morning, more emerging markets funds will have cracked our top-10