By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research, WisdomTree Investments Last week’s Behind the Markets podcast featured a discussion with Paul Esposito, senior portfolio manager at Prestige Wealth Management Group and chair of their investment policy committee. Paul is responsible for global capital market research, formulating both strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations as well as [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Shaun Wurzbach, Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Advisor Channel, S&P Dow Jones Indices I define core ESG indexing as the use of indices designed to apply environmental, social, and governance (ESG) screening and ESG scores to recognized and sometimes iconic indices like the S&P 500®, S&P/ASX 200, or S&P/TSX Composite. These headline indices become actionable components of asset [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By VanEck Hope Springs Eternal Hopes of a return to normality are increasing after a year of pandemic-induced tumult. News that COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and Moderna were more than 90% effective in clinical trials lifted global stock markets, with health care stocks outpacing the gains in the U.S., Asia and Europe [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Frank Holmes, U.S. Funds America, and the world, received another huge shot of hope this week. Biotech firm Moderna announced today that its coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective at preventing COVID-19. This news comes after the $210 billion drugmaker Pfizer said last Monday that its vaccine is 90% effective. Today at the open, travel [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Frank Holmes, U.S. Funds By now you may have heard that President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning Americans from investing in a select number of Chinese firms that have ties to China’s military. Since we invest heavily in the country and other Asian economies, through our China Region Fund (USCOX), I figured it’d be [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
For investors looking for momentum, First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF ROBT is probably a suitable pick. The fund just hit a 52-week high and is up 96.8% from its 52-week low price of $22.51/share.
By Eric Dutram, Contributor, DWS Twice a year, the Federal Reserve puts out an assessment of the “resilience of the U.S. financial system”, highlighting key risks and potential flashpoints that Fed members are watching. While this often focuses on traditional metrics such as valuation, borrowing levels or leverage, the latest edition added a new issue. For [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Gabor Gurbacs, Director, Digital Assets Strategy; Kyle DaCruz, Product Manager, Active Strategies; Denis Zinoviev, Associate Product Manager, ETFs Historically, bitcoin has been discussed in the news and among investors as a nascent and volatile asset outside of the traditional stock and capital markets. Much of the volatility over the past few years can be attributed to sensitivity to small [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors It’s been a blessed few months since I last wrote about Brexit. Unfortunately, however, with it once again reclaiming newspaper headlines, Brexit can no longer be ignored. According to officials, the UK and EU could strike a deal on their future trading and security relationship as early as [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride If it weren’t for my wife, I still wouldn’t know about that pile of money. My friend John recently told me a crazy story over coffee. One that’s 100X more powerful than any “hot stock tip.” “It was 1996,” he said. “I was managing apartment buildings and shopping at Home Depot 2–3 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride Do you want in on the next great tech revolution? Well, it’s happening before our eyes. But it’s a shift so subtle, hardly anyone recognizes the profits at stake. As I’ll show you today, these subtle shifts in computing happen once every 20 years or so. Last time, it handed investors 833% and [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Wall Street closed in an upbeat mood on Nov 19 as investors once again retreated to expand their holdings of major tech players amid the soaring coronavirus cases. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 rose 0.4%, along with the Nasdaq Composite
The timber industry and sector-related exchange traded funds have been rebounding as lumber prices rallied this year. The iShares Global Timber & Forestry ETF (WOOD) increased 6.1% over the past month and the Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF (CUT) gained 6.3%. Meanwhile, lumber futures jumped 24% so far in November, rising to about $617 per [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The total number of coronavirus cases has crossed the grim mark of 56 million globally. Notably, the world’s largest economy has seen more than 11 million cases alone. In fact, a new high of more than 80,600 hospitalized patients nationwide was reported in the United States on
A cocoa exchange traded note has surged this month after the top producers teamed up and began to operate as what some are calling a new cocoa cartel. The Path Bloomberg Cocoa TR Sub-Index ETN (NYSEArca: NIB) was up another 2.9% Friday after advancing 15.3% over the past week and surging 22.6% since its early [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds slipped Friday as the spike in coronavirus cases threaten widespread shutdowns that would upend the economic recovery. On Friday, Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) rose 0.8%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) was up 0.2%, and iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca: IVV) gained 0.5%. The markets [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
As China continues its path to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer staples is one of the sectors leading the way. ETF investors may want to give the Global X MSCI China Consumer Staples ETF (CHIS) a look, especially if China can continue to implement stimulus measures to promote spending. CHIS seeks to provide investment [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Investors were already looking ahead to 2021 after the March fiasco spun the equities world off its axis. While it’s starting to recover, ETF investors looking to shore up their portfolios for 2021 will want to consider ESG via the SPDR S&P 500 ESG ETF (EFIV). The fund seeks to provide investment results that, before [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Due in large part to companies such as Amazon (AMZN) and Etsy (ETSY), among many others, it's easy for some investors to view internet and e-commerce as distinctly American themes.
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