Daily State of the Markets: Is it Good News or Not?
By David Moenning Chief Investment Strategist StateoftheMarkets.com After one of the most dismal starts to almost any month on record, the market has certainly perked up a bit since the 18th
View ArticleCommodities ETFs Give Way In May
Commodities ETFs bled more than $1.6 billion in assets in May, as investors expressed their views that a decelerating global economy doesn't bode well for aggregate demand moving forward.
View ArticleBNP Takes On DBC, USCI With New ETF
(An earlier version of this story included an incorrect total prices for USCI and DBC. The correct prices, which make the new BNP fund the cheapest in class, appears below. We regret the
View ArticleHow To Prepare For QE3
Whether you ever agreed with the unconventional policy from the Federal Reserve, there's no denying that ETF investors stand to benefit. And, let's face it-it was only a matter of time before we
View ArticleLittle optimism seen for commodities
One investor sees little upside in energy and commodities, and is selling calls on the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Fund. Some 5,100 August 25 calls crossed our monitoring systems today,
View ArticleThree iPath ETNs to Watch During the Barclays LIBOR Scandal - ETF News And...
For the most part, ETFs and ETNs are similar. Both offer investors basket exposure to a particular asset class and they can each trade on the open market throughout the day. However, there is
View ArticleNew ETF Firm Gencap Buys FactorShares
FactorShares, the ETF sponsor behind a quintet of leveraged spread funds and a trio of resource-focused equity funds now in registration, was acquired by a new white-label exchange-traded fund
View ArticleThe Cheapest ETF Portfolio
With Schwab's recent decision to cut expense ratio on its ETFs, my 'World's Cheapest ETF Portfolio' now has a blended expense ratio of less than 10 basis points a year. Far less, in
View ArticleSchiff Appears Today At Inside Commodities
Peter Schiff, the ardent critic of the Federal Reserve and its easy-money policies, appears today at IndexUniverse's Inside Commodities conference in a panel on precious metals to discuss how the
View ArticleWhat Do Quarterly Trends Reveal about ETFs in Q4? - ETF News And Commentary
As we make further progress into the final quarter of 2012, it is worthwhile to point out that the year has been an eventful one in terms of domestic and global economic developments. The
View ArticleFlows For This ETF Issuer Show Investors Love Dividends
It may be data from just one issuer, but September inflows to Invesco's (NYSE: IVZ ) PowerShares ETF arm highlight an already known trend: Investors are pouring cash into income-oriented
View ArticleThe Best Way to Hedge Against "Inflation Run Amok"
Jim Rogers, legendary commodities investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund along with George Soros (a legend in his own right), has been looking at the pace of money printing in the developed
View ArticleInvestors Pile Into Newer Resources ETFs
High-yield and low-volatility funds attract all the attention, but gobs of net new money has flowed into natural resources ETFs in 2012, lifting total ETF assets focused on the theme to more
View ArticleElectronic K-1s To Relieve Tax Headaches
As any futures-based commodities investor knows, one of the main drawbacks to ETFs structured as commodities pools is dealing with K-1 tax forms. But relief appears to be on the way. In the
View ArticleEvaluating 'Better Beta' In Commodities
A lot of exchange-traded products try to beat the market, but it's only in commodities that the more active products are often more popular than their plain-vanilla counterparts. The most
View ArticleBNP Paribas Pulls Plug On ‘BNPC’ ETF
BNP Paribas Quantitative Strategies, the Paris-based bank's commodity pool operator, is delisting its only ETF this month-the futures-based commodities fund Stream S&P Dynamic Roll Global
View ArticleTime to Buy this Precious Metal ETF? - ETF News And Commentary
While many commodities are struggling, good news continues to pour in for the platinum-group metals. This time, many analysts are becoming more bullish on palladium, largely thanks to supply
View ArticleWhat Does the Decline in Commodity Prices Tell Us?
By Greg Jensen It isn’t news to anybody who follows markets that commodities in general and gold in particular have taken a beating in the last week or so. There is no shortage of people
View ArticleS'P Launches Risk-Weighted GSCI Index
S&P Dow Jones Indices today launched a risk-weighted version of the S&P GSCI Index, in the latest riff on the GSCI index aimed at perfecting the first-generation version of the
View ArticleInside the Palladium ETF's Recent Surge (PALL) - ETF News And Commentary
Despite some global commodity uncertainty, Palladium, the lustrous and rare silvery-white precious metal, has established itself as a vital product. The metal once used as coins now attracts
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