Nasdaq ETFs

The Mount Lucas president and CIO Tim Rudderow recently sat down with KraneShares to discuss current market environments and the benefits that managed futures have to offer investors right now. Rudderow pioneered systematic trend-following and managed futures to provide investors with uncorrelated returns amid market volatility and significant events. Futures markets are a mechanism that [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

An undoubtedly nifty trait about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, particularly when it comes to equities, is that ESG has ample versatility. It can be applied to various market capitalization segments, factors such as growth and value, and it’s useful with various weighting methodologies. That includes equal weight. The Invesco ESG S&P 500 Equal [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Gold could finally be on the precipice of breaking out of its sideways trend as inflationary pressures are pushing prices close to a five-month high. Exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors have been rejoicing the past month as prices start to tick higher amid rising consumer prices, as reflected in a decade-high consumer price index (CPI) during [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Inflation is becoming harder and harder to ignore. As a paper from Alerian notes, the CPI has increased 5.4% year over year, the Fed is likely to begin hiking rates as early as 2022, and income is increasingly challenging to find. The COVID-19 pandemic pivoted a lot of spending away from services and towards goods, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced the Keep Innovation In America Act on Thursday. The bill aims to amend the definition of “crypto broker” in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law earlier this year. The new bill also seeks to amend the tax code as well as transactions between brokers and non-brokers. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

First Trust has announced the release of their newest ETF that invests in corporate bonds with limited duration in a press release. The First Trust Limited Duration Investment Grade Corporate ETF (FSIG) seeks to provide current income in investment-grade bonds while maintaining a portfolio with a weighted average duration within one year of the U.S. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

As the global push towards more reliance on renewable energy continues, the demand for energy globally could be met using wind and solar, which opens up opportunities in a pair of Global X ETFs. A collaboration of researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), China’s Tsinghua University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Caltech [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Cryptocurrencies continue to live up to their high-risk profiles as bitcoin, ether and other top cryptocurrencies retreat from recent highs. After hitting a new high of $68,990.90 last week, bitcoin has retreated more than 5% since Monday and fell below $59,000 briefly, reported the Wall Street Journal. Ether has fallen on its fifth day in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares (OOTO) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show. The Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 200% of the performance of the BlueStar [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 513,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 148,000. Shares of ACWV were off about 0.3% on the day.

A whopping 46% of Americans believe that they are going to retire in the red is the startling find of a recent survey from MagnifyMoney that could have long-term implications for fixed income needs. In retirement, monthly payments for various debts can very quickly eat into monthly income allotments and can add up rapidly to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A judge in the U.S. who rules over trade issues has just overturned Trump’s tariffs on solar panels, opening the door for greater growth from international sources, reports Reuters. Judge Gary Katzmann, a justice for the U.S. Court of International Trade, ruled on Tuesday that Trump’s increase in tariffs, which included bifacial (double-sided) solar panels, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

American Century Investments has partnered with Nomura Asset Management to launch a new active ETF, the American Century Select High Yield (AHYB), which follows an investment strategy that aligns with an American Century mutual fund focused on high income, according to the press release. The fund focuses on high-yield corporate bonds that are rated BB [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Healthcare innovators, including genomics companies, are rarely inexpensive in equity market terms. Often, rich multiples are simply the cost of admission that investors have to pay to access a high-growth parts of the healthcare sector. However, there are times when some biotechnology and genomics stocks go on sale, confirming to investors that there are occasional [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

One of the major issues facing market participants this year, particularly those seeking exposure to emerging markets, has been the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) regulatory crackdown. That effort zeroed in on online education firms, consumer internet companies, and others, sparking significant downside in those names and exchange traded funds such as the Invesco Golden Dragon [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With all the talk about renewable energy adoption, fighting climate change and getting to net-zero, some investors may be apt to think the long-term outlook for fossil fuel equities and oil demand is negative. The opposite could prove true, and some of that proof is arriving this year as oil prices and demand are surging. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Dividend data out earlier this month confirms that payouts are approaching levels not seen since prior to the coronavirus pandemic, and the U.S. is grabbing plenty of headlines on this front. “US dividends, which proved more resilient than those in many parts of the world during the onset of the pandemic last year, climbed 10% [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The traditional 60-40 stock-bond split won’t cut it in a world where the threat of inflation and slow growth provides ample headwinds for portfolio gains, which makes a multi-asset strategy necessary. Ultimately, getting multi-asset exposure allows investors to spread their capital to avoid concentration risk and obtain diversification. This can help reduce volatility by getting [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Thursday, shares of the NFRA ETF (Symbol: NFRA) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $57.42, changing hands as low as $57.30 per share. NFRA shares are currently trading down about 0.5% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of NFRA