In trading on Wednesday, shares of the First Trust TCW Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF (Symbol: FIXD) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $43.685 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analys
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the HNDL ETF (Symbol: HNDL) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $19.5605 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum
ETFs focused on artificial intelligence are popular right now, but there’s a wide gulf between ETFs that use AI to invest and ETFs that invest in companies that benefit from or work on AI technologies. Let’s drill deeper into the difference between the two. AI ETFs First and foremost, it’s important to recognize what artificial [...]
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Over one year after Russia invaded Ukraine, aerospace and defense ETFs are continuing to see strong inflows. Defense stocks spiked early in 2022 as geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine intensified, prompting investors to look to aerospace and defense ETFs. Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war on February 24 through February 28, 2023, PPA saw $1 [...]
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BondBloxx U.S. Treasury ETFs – More Precise, Lower Expense Ratio Looking to access U.S. Treasuries to manage cash or use as collateral? BondBloxx U.S. Treasury ETFs offer: Less than half the cost of the average expense ratio of U.S. Treasury ETFs1 The only ETFs that focus on stable duration exposure Across the yield curve, a diversified basket of U.S. [...]
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The third month of the year is upon us, and with it comes another strong performance for bonds, with the asset class lording its $4.5 billion in weekly asset flows. That’s much more than the only other asset class to take in net flows, the multi-asset class, which added just $27.4 million to its $31 [...]
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Much has been written since January 2023 about how investors voted with their feet in 2022 to the tune of almost a trillion. The breakdown is well covered by Morningstar’s Adam Sabban, CFA, and Ryan Jackson in an article, “U.S Fund Flows: Investors Bail.” Simply put, a bear market in fixed income and equities on [...]
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By Thomas Martin, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager Consistency—Not. If the market was on the stand, the prosecutor might be saying, “So let me get his right, Mr. Market, just last week you said that there was not going to be a recession, and the week before that, you said there was, and now…well, now, you’re [...]
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Market Uneasiness Returns in February Amid restored inflation worries and an upward repricing of terminal rates, equities posted losses in February. For the month, broad-based emerging market equities were among the worst performers (-6.9%), followed by international developed equities (-3.0%) and US value (-3.0%). Bonds also declined as investment grade corporates were down 4.2%, 7-10 [...]
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Thirty years ago, the exchange traded fund was launched. Now, upward of $6.5 trillion is invested in U.S. ETFs and accounted for more than 30% of exchange volume in 2022. It’s not surprising that ETFs have become so popular among investors. Their benefits are evident: they’re relatively inexpensive, tax efficient, easy to trade, and able [...]
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Most advisors worry that having only passive ETFs in their portfolios will leave them unable to pivot if market conditions change. Considering that many believe that equity markets will end 2023 either flat or down from where they are currently, this makes sense. In a post-viewer poll following the VettaFi webcast, Capital Market Considerations for [...]
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The First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 762,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 99,000. Shares of FTA were up about 0.2% on the day.
As investors and advisors navigate the challenging macroeconomic environment, certain exchange-traded fund (ETF) strategies have excelled, especially ETFs tied to higher-quality fixed income assets.
Institutional investor worried about the looming wrath of the Fed? You’re not alone — a survey of U.S. institutional investors conducted by CoreData Research recently found that 50 percent of institutionals are worried that higher rates may lead to significant withdrawals of major sources of liquidity. Big time allocators are not alone in having those [...]
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In trading on Wednesday, the Copper Miners ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Lundin Mining, up about 6.8% and shares of Hudbay Minerals, up about 6.2% on the day.
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By Mark Hackett One way to examine changing trends in stock market performance is to analyze sector weighting changes for the S&P 500® Index. These recurring shifts in the composition of the benchmark stock Index can offer insight into how different factors, such as cyclicality, long-term growth potential, and valuation, may impact stock performance in [...]
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In trading on Wednesday, shares of the WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund ETF (Symbol: DHS) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $84.95, changing hands as low as $84.70 per share. WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund shares are currently trading off about 0.3% on the da
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the JPST ETF (Symbol: JPST) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $50.15, changing hands as low as $50.13 per share. JPST shares are currently trading off about 0.3% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of JPST