Celebrating the Bull Market With ETFs
The bull market for U.S. stocks celebrates its sixth anniversary today and it has been quite a ride not only for U.S.…
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Strategists Get Tactical With Sector ETFs
Rather than solely relying on broad market index exchange traded funds to generate returns, an increasing number of advisors, ETF strategists and…
Rydex|SGI ETFs Get Guggenheim Makeover
Guggenheim Investments is finalizing its acquisition of Rydex|SGI as the fund provider rebrands the legacy Rydex|SGI ETF line with its own moniker.…
ETF Chart of the Day: U.S. Financial Sector
Exchange traded funds indexed to the U.S. financial sector were getting a boost Wednesday from Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), which saw its…
ETF Chart of the Day: Financials
With bullish call buyers surfacing in XLF (SPDR Financials) in the options market on weakness in the sector on Thursday, we have…
ETF Spotlight: Equal-Weight S&P 500
Much has been made of the “lost decade” in stocks with the S&P 500 suffering a pair of major sell-offs in the…
Have You Considered The Equal-Weight ETF Style?
Most Index exchange traded funds (ETFs) hold specific weightings of underlying securities based on market capitalization. Market cap weighting has been the…
7 Regional Bank ETFs Betting on M&A Pickup
Greater mergers and acquisitions activity in the financial sector has been delivering a nice bump for regional banking exchange traded funds (ETFs).…
3 ETFs to Play the AIG Comeback
AIG (NYSE: AIG) is one of the most notorious names in the financial crisis. A couple years after its bailout, it’s apparently…
ETFs Flat As Jobs Report Digested
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are being boosted this morning after the government reported that the economy added more jobs in October than…
Look Before You Leap: Know the Holdings of Your ETFs
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) offer exposure to a wide variety of areas of the markets, but, like a snow flake, each ETF…
Can We Bank on a Financial ETF Rebound?
As banks traverse the financial gauntlet placed before them, some financial institutions are providing some uplifting signs and investors are beginning to…
When It Comes to Financial ETFs, Is Equal Weight Better?
The focus on TARP funds and the governments around the globe has been to save the “too big” to fail financial institutions…
Bernanke and Buffett Speak, Markets and Financial ETFs Smile
Stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) rose this morning after some hopeful words from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. He said that…