Nasdaq ETFs

Bond investors have seen better days, but that doesn’t mean there are no options available. Personal finance magazine Kiplinger highlighted five bond exchange traded funds (ETFs) to consider in the current environment, including three funds from Vanguard. With rates rising, going short on duration is a classic play, especially if investors are looking for a temporary [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The U.S. and other developed markets are heavily digitized. The same goes for China, Japan, and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. However, on a geographic basis, there remain compelling investable opportunities when it comes to digital adoption still being in its early innings. A prime example is Latin America, and the Next Frontier Internet & [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Money is the biggest source of stress in clients’ lives, above marriage, religion, politics, and others, according to a survey from the American Psychological Association.  Dave Nadig, financial futurist at ETF Trends and ETF Database, sat down with thought leader Brian Portnoy, founder and CEO of Shaping Wealth, today at Exchange: An ETF Experience to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (Symbol: IEI) where we have detected an approximate $108.8 million dollar outflow -- that's a 1.1% decrease week

Investors can use active management to adapt their portfolios to adjust to the current investment environment, according to JPMorgan Asset Management’s global head of ETF solutions, Byron Lake. Speaking with Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks at Exchange: An ETF Experience, Lake explained how active management could help navigate market volatility and the Federal Reserve’s impending [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

ETF Trends’ CEO Tom Lydon discusses the Franklin FTSE Brazil ETF (FLBR) on this week’s ETF of the Week podcast with Chuck Jaffe of the MoneyLife Show. Lydon opens by explaining the economic turnaround that Brazil has managed in the last year, recovering from poor economic and stock market performance to strong growth. Brazil is a major [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Of all the big-name guests at Exchange: An ETF Experience, only one so far walked out of their session trailed by a crowd of advisors — Frank Luntz. If you don’t know the name, you know his work. Luntz is a pollster whose work helped get presidents elected and created the buzzwords for issues we [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A majority of Americans are woefully underprepared for retirement, but it is never too late to start taking it seriously. “Approximately half of Americans are at risk of not being able to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living after they stop working,” Angie Chen, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

As growth stocks rebounds, exchange traded fund investors are diving back into technology sector-related strategies. Among the most popular ETFs over the past week, the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF (SOXL) attracted $1.3 billion in net inflows, the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLK) added $600 million in inflows, and the Invesco QQQ [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Active management is picking up steam and gaining market share from its passive counterparts, leading investors to wonder if there are certain situations in which they need to look to higher-cost active funds for outperformance. Jenny Johnson, president and CEO of Franklin Templeton, sat down with Julie Hyman, anchor for Yahoo Finance, today at Exchange: [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Currency-hedged Japan country-related exchange traded funds could continue to be a better way to access the Japanese markets as the yen currency depreciates in the face of a loose monetary policy outlook. The currency-hedged WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (NYSEArca: DXJ), which hedges against the negative effects of a depreciating yen currency relative to the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A corn exchange traded fund could continue to find support as President Joe Biden temporarily lifts the limit of ethanol blended into gasoline to help ease the country’s burden of rising energy prices. The Teucrium Corn Fund (CORN) gained 0.7% on Wednesday. CORN has increased 34.1% year-to-date. The Biden administration argued that lifting the use [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Investors are understandably concerned with the risk of crypto theft. Crypto criminals directly stole a record $3.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency last year, according to Chainalysis, marking a fivefold increase from 2020. Dave Nadig, financial futurist at ETF Trends and ETF Database, sat down with Matt Hougan, CIO at Bitwise Asset Management, today at Exchange: [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

BlackRock, on a call to analysts to discuss better-than-expected performance in the first quarter, highlighted the focus on the renewable transition by investors happening now and going forward, reports Financial Times. CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, believes that the Ukraine-Russia war has forced countries to move away from their energy dependence on Russia and to focus [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Travel sector-related exchange traded funds jumped on Wednesday after Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) projected rising profits in the current quarter as consumers satiate their wanderlust. Among the best-performing non-leveraged ETFs of Wednesday, the U.S. Global Jets ETF (NYSEArca: JETS) advanced 4.8%, the Defiance Hotel Airline and Cruise ETF (CRUZ) increased 4.9%, and the SonicShares Airlines, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a marquee, if not the largest holding in a slew of exchange trade funds, including a number of ETFs tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) or derivatives of that widely followed benchmark. The Invesco ESG NASDAQ100 ETF (QQMG) is part of that group. QQMG follows the Nasdaq-100 ESG Index — the environmental, social, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Broadly speaking, 2022 is shaping up to be another rough year for emerging markets equities, but upon closer examination, there are pockets of strength amid the calamity caused by Chinese and Russian stocks. On a regional basis, Latin America is an obvious standout. For example, the First Trust Latin America AlphaDEX Fund (NYSE: FLN) is [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Brazil is seeing an uptick in consumer spending, according to the latest figures from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Per the government agency, retail sales in Brazil rose 1.1% in February from January, beating analyst expectations. Economists in a Reuters poll had anticipated a month-over-month increase of only 0.1%, while a survey of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

China’s banning of cryptocurrencies and crypto mining in the summer of 2021 continues to pay dividends for the U.S. as increasingly more companies and their supply chains develop domestically. The latest potential is that of Intel, an American manufacturer of semiconductor chips that are used in bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining. Intel is currently being slated [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

ARK Invest sees one software segment poised to grow leaps and bounds above where people expect overall IT spending to go, with attributable market cap exceeding $100 trillion just for the innovative segment alone. Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at ETF Trends and ETF Database, sat down with Brett Winton, ​​director of research at ARK [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.