A pandemic-induced spike in housing demand and a dearth of supply suggests that the spring housing market could be one of the most competitive ever. A significant fall in new listings due in part to severe weather, in conjunction with already anemic supply, will make it extremely challenging for buyers to find their dream home [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Coinbase, one of the dominant cryptocurrency exchanges, is nearing its debut as a public company with a valuation pegged at $100 billion. Rather than commence a traditional IPO, the company is using a direct listing and will trade under the ticker COIN. The shares will list on Nasdaq. A regulatory filing related to the listing [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Ottawa sure is a long way from Silicon Valley. In the summer of 2010, Tobi Lütke met with venture capitalists at Bessemer Ventures. He was looking for a couple million bucks to fund his money-losing Canadian startup. Cash was so tight Lütke’s father-in-law had to write checks to pay the employees. Bessemer was skeptical at [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Jianing Wu, Senior Analyst, Research This is the first installment of our blog series on bitcoin’s growing demands. Bitcoin has come under heavy scrutiny from the investment community. The fact that its price skyrocketed to $58,350 per bitcoin—almost three times higher than its 2017 peak—has attracted people’s attention. A flurry of news signaling institutional [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Nicolas Fonseca, CFA, ETF Product Analyst The gaming industry is poised for a recovery as distribution of the COVID vaccine continues to improve. Travel and tourism is experiencing an uptick and Las Vegas’ casinos are set to return to a 50% occupancy limit by mid-March.[1] The VanEck Vectors Gaming ETF (BJK) has benefitted as well, and has been [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Coulter Regal, CFA, Associate Product Manager Millions of people use social media and other online platforms to express opinions and share ideas—including those related to their stock portfolio. The vast amount of content generated across these platforms contains valuable insights that can help investors gain a potential edge over the broader market. Gaining an [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Government bond yields have been rising steadily for the past three months, but they went parabolic in February, surging over 31%. The yield on the 10-year Treasury touched 1.6% last Thursday, up from 0.9% just a couple of months ago. That’s more than a two standard deviation move, suggesting the bond selloff may be overdone. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Robert Ross February was a wild month for the stock market. All three major indexes ended the month in the green, with the Dow Industrials adding 4.4% and the S&P gaining 3.4%. And even with its 4.9% decline last week, the technology-heavy Nasdaq still turned out a 1.4% gain. This may be a sneak [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The Fed’s Beige Book indicated a modest pace of expansion across most of the country between January and mid-February. Growth was characterized as restrained in virtually all districts and sectors, but this still represented an improvement in tone from the previous report two months ago. Moreover, there were hints of a budding pickup in activity [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research Last week’s Behind the Markets podcast featured a debate on the merits of Bitcoin with Alex Pickard, VP of Research at Research Affiliates, and Jason Guthrie, Head of Capital Markets and Digital Assets for WisdomTree Europe. Pickard said he first got into Bitcoin during his financial engineering graduate coursework [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
For this week’s episode of ETF 360, ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon and CIO Dave Nadig caught up with Janel Jackson, Head of U.S. ETF Capital Markets at Vanguard, to discuss capital markets and the opportunities investors might be missing out on. Watch the Full ETF 360 Episode Here: Looking at the market currently, particularly concerning [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
To learn more about Main Management and how some of our strategies could help you with your investment needs, please contact Darol Ryan, our Head of Sales and National Accounts, at ryan@mainmgt.com. Also check out Main Management CEO Kim Arthur on Twitter and Main Management on LinkedIn. Read more at ETFtrends.com.
While markets roiled over the past week, exchange traded fund investors have been shifting into the emerging markets. Among most in-demand ETFs of the past week, the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: VWO) attracted $1.3 billion in net inflows and the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: IEMG) saw $1.0 billion in new [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
For investors looking for momentum, Vanguard Energy ETF VDE is probably a suitable pick. The fund just hit a 52-week high and is up 139.9% from its 52-week low price of $30.03/share.
The coronavirus outbreak is a major concern across the globe. However, amid the health crisis, industries including cloud computing have been thriving with majority of people working from home. Even though vaccine rollout has begun globally, demand for cloud computing is set to s
Oil and energy exchange traded funds continue to rally, with crude prices at their highest level in almost two years, after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, or OPEC+, surprised markets by maintaining a cap on supplies despite a recovering global economic outlook. Among the best performing non-leveraged ETFs of Friday, the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds rebounded Friday, with the Nasdaq still on pace for its worst week since March after a rise in borrowing costs weighed on the economic outlook. On Friday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) was up 0.9%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) gained 1.3%, and iShares Core [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
With fear of inflation and rising Treasury yields, investors are backing off equities, which could also lead to pullbacks overseas. Investors don’t have to shy away from emerging markets (EM) by re-focusing on fundamentals with funds like the Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF (PXH). PXH seeks to track the investment results of the FTSE [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Rising rate worries started bothering both equity and bond markets from February-end. Growing vaccine distribution and hopes of hefty stimulus under the Biden presidency along with a dovish Fed stoked inflationary pressure and boosted long-term treasury yields (read: Top ETF Stor