Healthcare ETFs Will be Just Fine When Rates Rise
Twenty-eight exchange traded funds hit all-time highs Wednesday. Underscoring the ongoing strength of the healthcare sector, 24 of those funds hailed from…
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Healthcare Providers ETFs not Moved by Centene’s Health Net Buy
Perhaps it is just a case of pre-holiday weekend lethargy or a muted reaction to the June jobs report, but healthcare providers…
Healthcare ETFs can Work Even When Interest Rates Rise
S&P 500 healthcare stocks barely topped the benchmark index during the last Federal Reserve rate tightening cycle in 2004 through 2006, but…
Emergency Room ETF Likes Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare
The Supreme Court has confirmed the legality of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare with six justices ruling to uphold…
M&A Activity Stokes Inflows to Healthcare Providers ETFs
Buoyed by rumors that the health insurance industry is poised for consolidation on a grand scale, the iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF…
Deal-Making is Healthy for Healthcare Providers ETFs
A scant number of exchange traded funds are making 52-week or all-time highs today, but increased mergers and acquisitions scuttlebutt has the…
Expect More Consolidation Within This ETF
The iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (NYSEArca: IHF) is up 15.3% this year and trading just 2.4% below its all-time high set…
A Healthcare ETF to Stave off June Gloom
June is not the ideal month of the year in which to be long stocks. Historical data confirms as much as the…
Healthcare Providers ETF Calm After Quest Diagnostics Rumor
Shares of Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the provider of healthcare diagnostic testing services, are up nearly 9% on more than seven times…
More M&A Could be Coming for This Healthcare ETF
The healthcare sector and its related exchange traded funds are not strangers to mergers and acquisitions activity. Arguably, the sector can be…
An Ideal Healthcare ETF for the Times
Prompted by the retrenchment in biotechnology stocks, healthcare exchange traded funds have recently given up some ground. Focused and tactical healthcare funds…
Behind the Stellar run for Healthcare ETFs
Investors are becoming well-acquainted with what has become an indomitable run for the healthcare sector, the third-largest sector allocation in the S&P…
Indexology®: When Did Everyone Get so Sick?
While the government squabbles over the future of healthcare, healthcare company executives can just sit back and smile. Their investors can too.…
Pharma ETFs Boosted by Mylan’s Giant Offer for Perrigo
Pharmaceuticals exchange traded funds are once again at the epicenter of the healthcare mergers and acquisitions as generic drugmaker Mylan (NYSE: MYL)…