Nasdaq ETFs

Google, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet Inc., has managed to secure a deal in the coveted financial services sector with major futures exchange CME. Google has invested $1 billion into CME and will host the trading system on its cloud services, reports the Wall Street Journal. The companies are embarking on a 10-year partnership that [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Market volatility affects all companies, but can be particularly fraught for innovative firms. It is not unexpected that companies that are creating ideas that will define the future could hit challenges in the present. In the recent webcast, Innovation: How to Navigate Through Periods of Volatility with ARK Invest, ARK Invest client portfolio specialist Dan White, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Once again, ETF inflows find themselves at a record high, with highlights in various areas. Joining the “ETF Report” with hosts Alexis Christoforous and Karina Mitchell, ETF Trends’ CEO Tom Lydon spoke about the top ten best performing ETFs year-to-date. To be more specific, the talk of the moment is the COP26-related ETFs out of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Markets that have been riding high on tailwinds from the COVID-19 economic recovery of last year and early into this year are starting to hit periodic headwinds that are slowing their momentum. This cycle is turning more towards headwinds looking forward, with the anticipation of turbulent markets, according to Mark Hackett, chief of investment research [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Stacey Morris Summary The perception of many investors is that midstream has a heightened correlation with oil when it is falling, but the correlation seems to disappear when oil prices are moving higher. While commodity prices have improved, energy stocks are still down across the board relative to price levels at the end of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

As the energy sector continues to evolve, a number of companies are shifting their focus from aggressive growth to efficiency and capital discipline, and it’s resulting in an increase in generation of free cash flow (FCF) for midstream companies, Alerian writes in a white paper by Stacey Morris, CFA. The enormous growth that the U.S. previously [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Getting emerging markets (EM) exposure comes with its own nuances like geopolitical risk, making it a tricky space to navigate for novice and experienced investors alike. Geopolitical risk in the current market environment includes the impact of technology on EM countries, such as cyberattacks that could cripple a country’s network, and a potential resurgence of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the KraneShares Asia Pacific High Yield Bond ETF (KHYB) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show. KHYB is an actively managed fund that provides broad exposure to high-yield bonds from the Asia-Pacific region. The fund actively invests in high-yield debt securities of any [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The 60/40 portfolio structure had its day in the sun. Actually, it was decades in the sun, but these days, advisors need to offer clients more. That’s particularly true at a potentially perilous time in the fixed income market. The Federal Reserve could easily raise interest rates next year. Bond yields are low, implying the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Americans love their mobile phones, and the evolution of the smartphone only enhanced that adulation. The smarter smartphones get, the more everyday tasks can be performed in mobile fashion. That includes online retail purchases — something that emerging markets consumers have long been hip to. In fact, the growth of emerging markets consumers’ embrace of mobile [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve made it clear that it will begin dialing back its $120 billion in monthly bond buying later this month. That’s also known as tapering. Owing to the “taper tantrum” of 2013, “taper” is usually viewed as an offensive word in the world of finance. It doesn’t have to be. In [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Government spending plans are front and center on Capitol Hill as the two parties continue squabbling over the “human infrastructure” legislation and the significantly larger budget reconciliation package. “House Democrats released the nearly 1,700-page Build Back Better Act on Oct. 28. The $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation package pared back total spending from an earlier version [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Ethereum could be eyeing the $5,000 price level as the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap continues its hot streak that began in October. So far this year, ethereum is up over 500%, which is over 400% more than bitcoin. This comes after bitcoin drew its all-time high in October following the introduction of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

China’s regional economies are still experiencing a relatively high growth rate, and issuers in the region have all come together to present a great income opportunity in Asian high yield, writes Henry Greene, investment strategist for KraneShares, in a white paper. With the recent restructuring of Evergrande, investors’ concerns are being felt within the bond [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

There’s no such thing as unwelcome income, and despite rumors that income is hard to find, there are a number of ETFs putting out juicy yields. Here are three dividend-focused ETFs with yields north of 8%: The Global X SuperDividend ETF (SDIV) The VanECK BDC Income ETF (BIZD) The Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) SDIV Gets [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The SPDR— S&P— Pharmaceuticals ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 353,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 50,000. Shares of XPH were up about 1.5% on the day.

In trading on Thursday, the Semiconductor ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Qualcomm, up about 11.2% and shares of Nvidia, up about 8.6% on the day.

The vast majority of passive equity-based exchange traded funds are weighted by market capitalization. The universe of equal-weight ETFs is well-populated, but significantly smaller. Among equal-weight ETFs, the Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF (RSP) is the largest, and while equal-weight ETFs aren’t exclusive, per se, choosy investors can find a lot to like with [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Solomon G. Teller, CFA, Chief Investment Strategist, Green Harvest Asset Management Stocks rocketed in October with the S&P 500 gaining 7.0% to achieve a new all-time high. Despite strong pre-tax returns, there are almost always opportunities to capture or harvest tax benefits to improve after-tax returns, and this month was no exception. Below are harvesting [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The digital future is one that is increasingly lived online. As such, the companies that succeed are the ones that not only know how to collect and organize deep, high-quality sets of data, but that can also refine that data into meaningful, actionable insight. In 2020, approximately 64 zettabytes — or 6.4 trillion gigabytes — of data [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.