Shopping for Upside With Retail ETFs
The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEArca: XRT) is still saddled with a year-to-date loss and the largest retail ETF has been trailing…
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5 ETFs with Amazon Up and Trump Isn’t Happy
With the decline of more brick and mortar retail stores, it’s no surprise that ETFs with exposure to Amazon are all up…
Retail Sales Down, What About Retail ETFs?
U.S. retail sales declined for a third straight month (December 2017, January 2018, February 2018), which points to a slowdown in economic…
Which ETFs Will Best Capture 2015’s Holiday Shopping Trends?
Thanksgiving is upon us and online merchants – and their related exchange traded funds – will have something to be extra thankful…
ETF Chart of the Day: Rocking Retail
It has been some time since we last covered the Retailers in terms of the ETFs that reign in the space, but…
A Retail ETF to Remember
The PowerShares Dynamic Retail Portfolio (NYSEArca: PMR) is not the largest retail exchange traded fund, but the fund does offer something different…
Going Shopping With Retail ETFs
The consumer discretionary sector has roared back in 2015 with the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLY) posting a gain of…
Meet This Year’s Top Discretionary ETF
The consumer discretionary sector has been a laggard for much of this year, but the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLY)…
Investors are Missing Out on the Discretionary ETF Rally
Perhaps Friday’s news that U.S. employers added 321,000 new jobs last month, well above economists’ expectations calling for 230,000 new jobs, will…
Consumer Cyclical ETF Wards off Amazon, Target Weakness
This year has brought an extension of the bull market, but consumer discretionary, one of the S&P 500’s leading sectors over the…
Retail ETFs try to Recapture Lost Magic
It has been a trying year for retail exchange traded funds, such as the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEArca: XRT) and the…
ETF Chart of the Day: Retail Wreckage
Yesterday we saw good-sized put activity in an ETF that has become a barometer for some in the U.S. Retail Equity space,…
Indexology®: Retail Sales Hop Before the Easter Weekend
Treasuries closed the week returning 1.02% as measured by the S&P/BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index. Last week’s return was…
ETF Chart of the Day: Rocking Retail
It appears that certain U.S. equity sectors are seeing some position trimming going into next month’s earnings season, as we recently highlighted…