Nasdaq ETFs

For this episode of “ETF 360” (recorded before the ETF Trends rebrand to VettaFi), VettaFi’s vice chairman Tom Lydon spoke with Jeff Weniger, CFA and head of equity strategy at WisdomTree, about the rotation back to value happening in markets. Looking back, it’s been around 14–15 years of largely growth for markets, with occasional 6–12 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Municipal bonds were one of the highlights of the bond market during the height of the pandemic with their attractive yields and tax benefits. Enter 2022, and they’ve followed the rest of the debt market downward, but that could be changing. Rate hikes have been applying downward pressure on bonds, but the sell-offs could be [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With so many thematic ETFs currently entering the market, “a theme needs to be very long term, very developed and very, frankly, investable,” according to Lauren Hein, head of advisor relations at ROBO Global. “We’re looking for something where you can invest in the companies that are developing the technology but also the companies that [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The demand for high yield bond ETFs is suddenly surging. After experiencing roughly $10 billion in outflows year-to-date, high yield fixed income ETFs have brought in more than $2.7 billion in investor capital over the past week, and $4.3 billion in a month. While some of these inflows are somewhat chasing performance, Bloomberg Intelligence senior [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A stronger-than-anticipated jobs report for May has sent markets sliding once again as investors digest further support for financial tightening by the Federal Reserve. In May 390,000 jobs were added, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.6%, above expectations by economists, reported the Wall Street Journal. Wages rose by 5.2% in May, a slowdown [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s and Baidu Inc.’s better-than-expected earnings triggered a rally in Chinese technology stocks. American depositary receipts in both companies rose by more than 10% on Thursday after they posted their results. This led to a 7.6% rise in the broader Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index, a 3.8% increase in the 30-stock Hang Seng Tech Index, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 1.8 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 634,000. Shares of IJJ were down about 1.1% on the day.

Investors, including those seeking income, tend to naturally favor that which is more familiar and better understood, resulting in a home country and familiarity bias. For US investors, performance trends have likely reinforced those biases, as domestic benchmarks have handily outperformed international developed markets over the last decade thanks in part to their significant exposure [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) took in over half a billion dollars in May inflows. ARK Invest’s flagship fund saw $658 million in net inflows in May, bringing the year-to-date net inflows to $1.5 billion. The fund finished the month with $9.1 billion in assets under management, according to VettaFi.  After experiencing outflows for months, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Large-cap stocks comprise the cores of many investors’ portfolios’ equity allocations. While large-cap stocks have historically been consistent drivers of performance, the returns of many large-cap equity funds may track closely to the performance of the broader large-cap market. Research from FlexShares has found that applying investing factors when building a large-cap stock portfolio may [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Recent market weakness has created a challenging environment for investors, especially for those with shorter time horizons that are preparing for or are already in retirement. It is easy to only think about the market relative to a recent high-water mark. Or, as the case has been recently, from near-term performance as we have seen [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Chris Konstantinos, CFA, Director of Investments, Chief Investment Strategist SUMMARY Concerns of a pending recession are rising. Traditional indicators suggest that the economy is still healthy, in our view. We believe the economy will escape a recession in 2022 but anticipate continued volatility as those fears persist. Current Signals Still Show Strength As inflation [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In trading on Friday, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.7% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Turning Point Therapeutics, up about 116.3% and shares of Nurix Therapeutics, up about 14.4% on the da

Crypto’s bad headlines may be making some investors shy, but a new infograph from Galaxy shows how digital assets can still be excellent diversifiers in these unusual times. Even factoring in the recent slide of crypto, digital assets remain one of the best-performing sectors of the past decade. The investible crypto universe is roughly $2.7 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (Symbol: XLF) where we have detected an approximate $132.8 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.4% decrease we

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF (Symbol: ISTB) where we have detected an approximate $81.3 million dollar outflow -- that's a 1.4% decrease week

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF (Symbol: AOK) where we have detected an approximate $93.5 million dollar outflow -- that's a 9.4% decrease

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Oil Services ETF (Symbol: OIH) where we have detected an approximate $88.9 million dollar outflow -- that's a 2.4% decrease week over week (from 12,

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the ProShares UltraPro QQQ (Symbol: TQQQ) where we have detected an approximate $130.9 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.9% decrease week over week (

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund (Symbol: FDN) where we have detected an approximate $190.1 million dollar inflow -- that's a 4.2% increase