REITs ETFs Welcome New GICS Sector Designation
Real estate investment trust exchange traded funds may continue to enjoy greater attention ahead as the REITs sector formally becomes the 11th…
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Preparing for Big Changes to a Popular Financial ETF
The widely observed and go-to financial sector exchange traded fund, the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF), is scheduled to make some…
Keep REIT ETFs on Your Radar This Summer
While many typically checkout before the summer, investors should keep an eye on real estate investment trusts and related exchange traded funds…
Tough Earnings Week Ahead for Financial, Bank ETFs
At the start of the year, the financial sector outlook looked promising, with the Federal Reserve set on interest rate normalization and…
Prepping for Wider REITs ETF Sector Adoption
Changes to S&P 500 index will affect how people position in REITs ahead S&P Dow Jones Indices stated it would add an…
Master Sector-Specific ETFs
All sectors are not created equal. Investors who seek to adapt their investment portfolio to prevailing market trends may target specific areas…
Sector SPDRs Adds First New Sectors In 17 Years
State Street Global Advisors has expanded its line of sector exchange traded funds to include two new funds that track financial services…
PowerShares ETFs Get New Tickers
The PowerShares Small-Cap Sector exchange traded funds (ETFs) will begin trading under new tickers today. PowerShares has elected to change the tickers…
PowerShares to Change Tickers on Small-Cap ETFs
Invesco PowerShares and Select Sector SPDRs have reached a deal that would further differentiate their lineup of sector exchange traded funds (ETFs)…
Why Small-Cap ETFs Are the Ones to Watch
Good things come in small packages. Small-cap exchange traded funds (ETFs) more than proved this in 2010 by being a part of…
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).…
Regional Bank ETFs: Best and Worst Performing Banks
Despite the optimistic news coming from a few Wall Street bankers, a majority of financial institutions are struggling in the fledgling recovery.…
Small-Cap ETFs: Small In a Big Way
Over the last three and six months, small- and mid-cap exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been leaving those large-caps in the dust.…
PowerShares Launches 9 New Small-Cap Sector ETFs
It’s an idea so exciting, you might wonder why it hasn’t been done before. On the heels of a post-recession small-cap rally,…