Investors can focus on dividend income payers and related exchange traded fund strategies to shore up their investment portfolios and help generate monthly income to wait out the ongoing risks. In the recent webcast, In Times of Uncertainty, This Play Can Unlock Opportunity, Bill Belden, president of Amplify ETFs; Kevin Simpson, founder and CIO of [...]
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In trading on Wednesday, shares of the Vanguard Russell 1000 Value ETF (Symbol: VONV) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $67.63, changing hands as low as $67.55 per share. Vanguard Russell 1000 Value shares are currently trading down about 0.8% on the day. The char
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (Symbol: XBI) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $81.98, changing hands as low as $81.33 per share. SPDR S&P Biotech shares are currently trading off about 2.8% on the day. The chart below shows th
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the DBMF ETF (Symbol: DBMF) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $31.54 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum o
Semiconductor ETFs haven’t exactly had a year to write home about. They picked up a big boost this week, however, with news that Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased a $4.1 billion piece of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), which may benefit one of the Taiwan ETFs with the largest TSM exposures, the Franklin FTSE [...]
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COP27, the 27th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties to the Paris Agreement on climate, is now underway in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt — and the mood going in is less hopeful than it was coming out of COP26. At COP26 last year, a coalition of nearly 200 countries and companies had agreed to [...]
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It’s no secret that there is a general, established inverse relationship between commodities and the U.S. dollar. Those correlations have become more complex since the onset of the pandemic, but the generalized rule of decreasing U.S. dollar value equates to rising commodity prices could mean that industrial metals are poised for sustained price increases forward-looking. [...]
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Europe has had to contend with inflation, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and its broad-reaching impacts, as well as a historically strong U.S. dollar that means the euro and dollar hit parity for the first time in 20 years. Valuations for European equities are deeply discounted, and investors have been flocking to Europe to seize the [...]
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Top Performing Levered/Inverse ETFs Last Week These were last week’s top-performing leveraged and inverse ETFs. Note that because of leverage, these kinds of funds can move quickly. Always do your homework. Ticker Name 1 Week Return (SOXL B+) Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares 47.05% (KORU C) Direxion MSCI Daily South Korea Bull 3X Shares 40.42% (GDXU B-) [...]
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The iShares Micro-Cap ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 139,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 33,000. Shares of IWC were off about 1.3% on the day.
Federated Hermes launched the Federated Hermes U.S. Strategic Dividend ETF (NYSE Arca: FDV). The new actively managed ETF seeks income and long-term capital appreciation by investing in U.S. companies with dividend yields above the S&P 500 Index average. The strategy invests in lower-volatility, income-producing U.S. companies that are in strong financial condition and have demonstrated [...]
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In trading on Wednesday, the The Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Consolidated Edison, up about 2.6% and shares of Sempra, up about 2.1% on the day.
As the world evolves, logistical challenges remain. However, with evolution also comes the advancement of technology, and the blockchain could help solve those challenges in the long run. This paves the way for opportunities in the investment arena when it comes to blockchain technology. Its proliferation in the area of logistics could mean more efficient [...]
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Supplier prices for the month of October have slowed for the second month in a row, rising only 8% year-over-year, a decline from the 8.4% revised in September and yet another metric to indicate that inflation pressures could be easing. Markets rose in response to the report on hopes that it will be yet another [...]
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Rising costs could adversely affect the utilities sector, which has experienced weakness for most of the year, but the Direxion Daily Utilities Bull 3X Shares (UTSL) is still up almost 30% within the past month. Overall, however, the utilities sector has actually fared quite well this year based on the performance of the S&P 500 [...]
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VettaFi CMO Jon Fee appeared at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday to deliver a speech on global marketing in the digital age. Fee’s background includes working for companies such as Salesforce, BlackRock, and Allianz — but he owns his own independent record label, Parks and Records, and is a strategic advisor for Humanitas [...]
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Sometimes, bold contrarian calls can be more bold than profitable, but when an active manager gets it right, the results can really pay off. One such success story lies with the FCF US Quality ETF (TTAC). Step back to 2021, the days when the bull market seemed like it could run forever, and the tech giants [...]
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