Nasdaq ETFs

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (Symbol: SHY) where we have detected an approximate $284.6 million dollar outflow -- that's a 1.5% decrease week

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (Symbol: IJR) where we have detected an approximate $161.3 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.2% decrease week

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (Symbol: IHF) where we have detected an approximate $242.6 million dollar outflow -- that's a 16.8% decrease w

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Health Care Select Sector SPDR— Fund (Symbol: XLV) where we have detected an approximate $720.6 million dollar inflow -- that's a 2.4% inc

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR— Fund (Symbol: XLP) where we have detected an approximate $324.4 million dollar inflow -- that's a 2.8

ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the Horizon Kinetics Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show. INFL is an actively managed ETF that seeks long-term growth of capital in real (inflation-adjusted) terms. It seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in domestic [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Inflation worries continue to swirl about the capital markets. Investors can help ease their fears with the Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC). Commodities consist of assets that have tangible properties. Prominent examples include oil, agricultural produce, precious metals, and raw metals. They give investors alternative assets that are relatively uncorrelated to the stock [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The growth style and related exchange traded funds advanced Thursday as investors shifted out of economically sensitive cyclical plays, following lackluster economic data. According to the Labor Department, the number of U.S. workers filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly increased to 419,000 last week, a two-month high, Reuters reports. “The market got spooked over [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEArca: AMLP) and its midstream components are dealing with a near-term uptick in volatility as oil prices decline amid the expansion of the delta variant of the coronavirus pandemic as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) moves to boost output. Experienced energy investors know those are legitimate headwinds and [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In the recent webcast, How to Avoid Gambling and Gamification in Your Portfolio, Julian Koski, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer, New Age Alpha, warned that too many investors act like gamblers trying to pick winners. Instead, he argued that the goal shouldn’t be to pick winners but avoid losers as a way to maintain long-term [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Watch enough media and congressional appearances by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and you couldn’t be blamed for thinking each of those events sounds identical. At least Powell is consistent. In his testimony before Congress last week, Powell reiterated his view that the world’s largest economy is still in solid shape and that inflation is [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In a low-yield environment, fixed income investing isn’t as easy as it used to be. Moreover, many of the aggregate bond funds that were so beloved in previous economic environments may be leaving investors without adequate income and/or inflation protection. In other words, selectivity is now paramount in the fixed income universe. “Indeed, even seemingly [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The iShares Global Tech ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 204,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 30,000. Shares of IXN were up about 0.7% on the day.

Junk-bonds’ power to beat inflation is fading — the gap between them has shrunk to a three-decade low of just 0.75%. Yet another setback for retirees who view traditional fixed-income investments as a secure way to fund a long retirement. The gap between yields on junk bonds and the annualized two-year rate of inflation is [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

On Thursday, Direxion announced the launch of the Direxion Low Priced Stock ETF (LOPX). LOPX invests in 50 companies trading at share prices between $2 and $5 at the time of purchase. Low-priced stocks tend to be in the small-to-mid cap range of the market, with higher return potential on average, coupled with higher volatility. “Investors and traders are increasingly [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By BCM Investment Team The National Bureau of Economic Research’s decision to set the COVID recession at two months was surprising since more than a year and a half later, “normalization” is ongoing. And although longer-dated inflation expectations have been moderating (accepting the “transient” theme), 7 million Americans are still out of work despite many [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The most recent Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting triggered a response in both equity and fixed income markets reversing the inflation trade that has pushed longer term interest rates up and put value in favor over growth stocks. The U.S. Federal Reserve hinted that inflationary pressures may not be as transitory as first thought leading [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Internet streaming giant Netflix is making a move into the gaming industry, which could heat up the competition and push the Global X Video Games & Esports ETF (HERO) higher. New entrants to a market can always invoke some level of healthy competition. In the case of Netflix, it’s a big player entering into a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

June was a volatile, eventful month for cryptocurrency markets, as China cracked down on its domestic crypto mining industry. Many investors and funds, including the Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (BLOK), took the opportunity to shift their crypto investments, buying direct exposures at reduced prices.  BLOK is an actively managed ETF and the first of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Thursday, the First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Crowdstrike Holdings, up about 3.5% and shares of Cloudflare, up about 3.4% on the day.