Nasdaq ETFs

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR— Gold Shares (Symbol: GLD) where we have detected an approximate $782.7 million dollar outflow -- that's a 1.3% decrease week over week (

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (Symbol: QUAL) where we have detected an approximate $105.9 million dollar inflow -- that's a 0.4% increase week

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Materials Select Sector SPDR— Fund (Symbol: XLB) where we have detected an approximate $283.7 million dollar outflow -- that's a 3.2% decr

The title of this blog is, without a doubt, what investors are quite eager to find out. Two weeks ago the markets received the July data for both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as well as the Producer Price Index (PPI). The lion’s share of the headlines tends to go to the CPI, but this report is like [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By John Mauldin, Mauldin Economics Having been Puerto Rico residents for almost three years now, Shane and I have learned a few things about living in the tropics. In Dallas, we didn’t often think about hurricanes, though we did have tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Ditto for earthquakes. North Texas is pretty stable, geologically speaking. Now [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

It’s no secret. The highly transmissible delta variant of Covid-19 has stalled the recovery of commercial air travel and weakened bookings in July and August, which have traditionally been among airlines’ busiest months of the year. What’s more, higher oil prices could be an additional headwind for carriers. These developments may be off-putting to some [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

High-quality companies—companies with strong profitability metrics, low debt and low variability in earnings—represent one of the better opportunities in the market today. Academic research shows that a very simple sort of the market by a profitability metric known as return on equity (ROE) has delivered strong long-term returns. The return spread between the highest and lowest ROE companies [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Project, VanEck In this week’s episode, I speak with Calvin Williams Jr., CEO and founder of Freeman Capital. We discuss the wealth gap in America and his motivation for building a wealth management practice for everyday people. Subscribe Now Apple Podcasts |  Spotify |  Stitcher |  SoundCloud |  YouTube Calvin is focused on helping to close the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

After 20 years, the longest war in U.S. history is finally coming to a (clumsily handled) close. The war on Afghanistan’s opium poppy production, on the other hand, looks set to escalate, at a potentially great expense to taxpayers. In case you don’t know, Afghanistan produces a lot of the stuff. The United Nations Office [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Confluence Investment Management offers various asset allocation products which are managed using “top down,” or macro, analysis. We publish asset allocation thoughts on a weekly basis in this report, updating the report every Friday, along with an accompanying podcast. August 27, 2021 Since the Federal Reserve was granted independence in 1951 there have been 11 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Turkey’s country-specific exchange traded fund has enjoyed a great bump, with Turkish equities coming off their best month of the year, and this emerging market could have more room to run. The iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (NasdaqGM: TUR) increased nearly 11.0% over the past month, but it is still down 9.3% year-to-date. After the Turkish [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Sara Rodriguez, Sage ESG Research Analyst About Micron Technology Micron Technology, Inc. is an American semiconductor company that produces a variety of memory and storage products. Micron is the fifth largest semiconductor company in the world by revenue ($21.4 billion in 2020) and operates in 17 countries. The processors and microchips that Micron produces [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Precious metals exchange traded funds shined after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced tapering could still happen this year, but the central bank won’t be in a hurry to hike interest rates anytime soon. On Friday, the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) was up 1.9%, Sprott Physical Silver Trust (PSLV) added 2.2%, the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD) was [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Komson Silapachai, Sage VP of Research & Portfolio Strategy Fueled by stimulus and pent-up demand from the Covid-induced recession, the U.S. economy staged one of the sharpest recoveries in the first half of 2021 to output levels well beyond the slowdown experienced last year. As a result, policymakers are looking to transition from unprecedented [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The pandemic saw many companies, particularly digitally based ones, profiting as millions of people globally shifted to working from home. China’s Huawei, a leader in information and communications technology infrastructure as well as smart devices, doubled its global market share for Infrastructure as a Service in 2020, according to Politico. Cloud computing has become a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Energy sector-related exchange traded funds led the charge on Friday as crude oil prices rallied on a hurricane threat in the Gulf of Mexico that threatened production and a supportive Federal Reserve allayed growth concerns. Among the best-performing non-leveraged ETFs of Friday, the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (NYSEArca: XOP) was up [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed with a 69 to 30 vote in the Senate and is on its way for approval in the House of Representatives. The roughly $1 trillion bill will add $550 billion in new infrastructure spending over five years. This is a great win for America’s deteriorating roads and power [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Value stock exchange traded funds jumped Friday while broad U.S. market indices hit record highs, following Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s reassurances that the central bank will not overreact to the inflation spike and will maintain patience in tapering its bond purchasing program. At the Jackson Hole economic conference, Powell argued that inflation was “transitory” [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Both the Impact Shares YWCA Women’s Empowerment ETF (WOMN) and the SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (SHE) hit record highs Wednesday, the day before Women’s Equality Day on Thursday. WOMN was up almost 19% year-to-date while SHE was up 17%, reported CNBC. Women’s Equality Day celebrates the day that the 19th Amendment, which prevented the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The limitations of lithium batteries could be minimized further with rapidly expanding technology, which can only benefit the Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF (LIT). Advancements in lithium batteries will be a boon for the electric vehicle market. With the push towards putting more electric vehicles (EVs) on the road, a research team in [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.