Nasdaq ETFs

With big questions about 2023 still looming for investors, investment cases abound for all sorts of approaches, from going all in on dividends to embracing a soft-landing tech rebound. For those who want to maintain some solid equities exposures, but without some of that volatility that may be on the horizon, a multifactor mid-cap ETF [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Investors who are interested in innovative ETF solutions should take a look at ARK Invest’s research process, and how ARK approaches cost decline modeling and company valuations. In the recent webcast, How Autonomous Tech Will Shape the Future, Tasha Keeney, director of investment analysis and institutional strategies at ARK Invest, explained ARK Invest’s Iterative Investment [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Last week, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder Morris Chang announced that the company was planning to produce chips with advanced 3-nanometer technology. But now, TSMC will offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens in 2024. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg is reporting that TSMC is doing [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The small size factor has outperformed in 2022, maintaining strength through November. The weighted average capitalization of most factor indexes is below that of the S&P 500. Other things equal, therefore, most factor indices will benefit from a tailwind when smaller companies outperform, according to S&P Dow Jones Indexes. In November, only six factor indexes [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Editor’s note: Any and all references to time frames longer than one trading day are for purposes of market context only, and not recommendations of any holding time frame. Daily rebalancing ETFs are not meant to be held unmonitored for long periods. If you don’t have the resources, time or inclination to constantly monitor and manage [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

December 1, 2022 2023’s Best Asset Class: Long-Term Treasuries? Our last fixed income insight focused on the 4 stages of the interest rate cycle. We conclude that we entered stage 3 at the end of the second quarter. Despite demonstrating that Treasury yields eventually tend to stabilize even as the Federal Reserve hikes aggressively – [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Equal weight’s significant outperformance over its cap-weight parent, the S&P 500 Index, suggests strong payoffs to value and small size factor tilts in the current environment. The S&P 500 advanced 5.6% in November compared to the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index’s gain of 6.7%. While equal weight has consistently outperformed this year, the gap between [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In a topsy-turvy year defined by a broad market selloff amid geopolitical and rising rate uncertainty, energy has been one of the sectors to stand out. With costs on the rise and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupting global supply chains, governments are revisiting nuclear energy, presenting an opportunity for investors to tax loss harvest out [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Treasury yields rose sharply on Friday after the Labor Department posted a hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs report for November. The yield on the 2-year Treasury rose to 4.367% from 4.254% on Thursday. Meanwhile, the yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped to 3.595% from 3.525% as of late Thursday, and the yield on the 30-year Treasury rose [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (ENFR) outperformed the broader energy sector in November as crude oil prices declined.   ENFR’s underlying index, the Alerian Midstream Energy Select Index (AMEI), gained 4.25% on a total-return basis in November, outpacing the Energy Select Sector Index (IXE), which increased 1.38% during the month.  As U.S. benchmark oil prices declined -6.91% [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Investors with exposure to transportation have plenty of cause to be nervous, as railroad executives continue to deny sick pay to workers, increasing the likelihood of further disruption despite a congress-mandated resolution to the potential strike. One transportation ETF, the ALPS Global Travel Beneficiaries ETF (JRNY), has managed to sidestep the fracas through a lack [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Opportunities for investors emerge as traditional style infrastructure moves toward a net zero carbon footprint.

These are the questions on every investor’s mind: Have markets really priced in the severity of the Fed’s campaign against inflation? How bad would a 2023 recession be — if there is one at all? Perhaps most importantly, what might investors be missing when looking at their portfolios as a volatile 2022 comes to a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The ALPS Global Travel Beneficiaries ETF (JRNY) posted its second consecutive month of positive performance in November. JRNY returned 7.6% in November, a month in which broader markets were lifted by easing inflation and optimism surrounding a potential slowing pace of U.S. rate hikes. The S&P 500 also posted its second consecutive month of gains, with [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 794,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 128,000. Shares of SLY were trading flat on the day.

In trading on Friday, the Invesco China Technology ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Zhihu, up about 10.8% and shares of Dada Nexus, up about 6.7% on the day.

Investors have been more confident about putting money into high yield fixed income now that many believe that inflation and the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes have peaked. Data from Refinitiv Lipper show that so-called junk bond funds have enjoyed five consecutive weeks of positive net inflows through November 23, bringing in a total of $13.47 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

There’s no doubt that 2022 has been a trying economic environment for consumers and investors alike. Although there’s been considerable debate regarding whether or not the U.S. economy is in a recession, there’s no denying that interest rates are moving higher and inflation resides at four-decade highs. Broadly speaking, there’s evidence that consumer spending has [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Friday, shares of the iShares Russell 3000 ETF (Symbol: IWV) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $233.96, changing hands as low as $232.41 per share. iShares Russell 3000 shares are currently trading off about 0.8% on the day. The chart below shows the

While a relatively high-level overview, my hope is that readers can turn this knowledge into wisdom as they continue to embrace ETFs in their investment allocation decisions.