MarketMuse update is courtesy of Bloomberg’s Justin Fox. It is very difficult to invest stocks for long term, humans’ interests are always changing and that affects the stock market. Bloomberg’s Justin Fox suggests that people should invest in human behaviors such as the tobacco and alcohol industries, such as the…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Todd Shriber of ETF Trends, profiles the increase in cyber security ETFs as the threats of being hacked become more and more relevant. The PureFunds ISE Cyber Security ETF (NYSEArca: HACK) continues to cement its status as a legitimate event-driven exchange traded fund. HACK is higher by 0.7% Tuesday…Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of Tom Lydon from ETF Trends.  Continuing with what has turned out to be exhausting coverage of European ETFs, the Portuguese, Irish, Italian, Spanish and Greek stocks (the PIIGS) ETFs are showing a bright immediate future for the Eurozone.  Though still controversial, due in part to looming…Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of ETF Trends' Todd Shriber. Earlier this week and over the past few months, MarketMuse has been covering the rocky European market, thanks to Greece, and its recent rebound, with ETF $GVAL. Now investors have even more to be excited about with the recent success of German ETFs. …Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of ETF Trends' Tom Lydon.  Shares of Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL) are up a modest by the stock’s standards 0.6% today, pushing the iPhone maker’s market capitalization to a lofty $732 billion and some change. As has been well-documented, Apple’s ascent to becoming the first company with…Read More

MarketsMuse update profiles last week’s launch of the SPDR S&P Buyback ETF, an exchange-traded fund focused on tracking the stock price performance of companies that are in midst of corporate share repurchase (10b-18) programs. Excerpt courtesy of ETF Daily News. Buybacks and dividends have been among the primary contributors to…Read More

MarketMuse update profiling Europe's market rebounding is courtesy of ETF Trends' Tom Lydon.  With Greece seemingly in the headlines every day, and rarely with good news, it is easy for investors to perceive European equities as damaged and vulnerable to more declines. On the brighter side of the ledger, history…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of reporting by Reuters' Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Ashley Lau NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. investors spooked by wild swings in the foreign exchange market are piling into exchange-traded funds that strip out the local currency on their international equity portfolios, making them one of the most sought-after…Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of Business Insider's Sam Ro MarketMuse has previously reported on the volatility the Greece elections created early this year now even more problems have ensued for the country. Following the the European Central Bank's announcement that it lifted its waiver on minimum credit rating requirements for marketable instruments issued or…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends' Tom Lydon American Funds, one of the largest mutual funds issuer, are waiting for the SEC to approve an application for the issuer to enter the ETF industry.  Capital Group Cos., the parent company of American Funds, submitted an application for ETFs to the…Read More

MarketsMuse global macro trading insight courtesy of extract from 4 Feb edition of Rareview Macro LLC’s “Sight Beyond Sight” with reference to $MVE and $MVMVE [caption id="attachment_2349" align="alignleft" width="150"] Neil Azous, Rareview Macro[/caption] There are a lot of moving parts overnight, including the continuing debate on whether crude oil has…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends' Todd Shriber. MarketMuse has been profiling the recent market turmoil found all across Europe but mainly Greece and Russia. After a difficult past six months, Russia's ETF has recently been back on the rise.  Entering Tuesday, the Market Vectors Russia ETF (NYSEArca: RSX) sported a six-month loss…Read More

MarketsMuse blog update courtesy of extract from news report by Reuters’ Ashley Lau State Street Corp said on Tuesday it has slashed management fees on 41 of its SPDR exchange-traded funds, joining major ETF providers BlackRock Inc and Vanguard in their efforts to lower fees as price competition heats up.…Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of Reuters.  Guggenheim Investments, the seventh-largest ETF issuer in the United States, is considering trying on currency hedged ETFs for size. Guggenheim Investments is considering launching one or more currency hedged exchange-traded funds, one of the hottest and most sought-after financial products the last few months. "I…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends, Tom Lydon. Tom Lydon highlights Recon Capital ETF that follows a covered call strategy successful first year.  A little unknown exchange traded fund that follows a covered call strategy has generated robust dividend yields over its first year. The Recon Capital NASDAQ-100 Covered Call ETF (NasdaqGM: QYLD),…Read More

Markets Muse senior staff dumped their snow boots and instead, has boots on the ground at the Florida ETF boondoggle hosted by ETF.com. One of the more reportable take-aways (so far) is our capturing the following comment about the much talked about new product trend focused on non-transparent, hedge fund-esque…Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of MarketWatch. Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS), multi-manager asset management business,  announced that they have reached an agreement with ETF Issuer Solutions (ETFis) , a comprehensive platform for listing, operating, and distributing exchange traded funds. Virtus Investment Partners will acquire the majority interest from the deal.  The transaction…Read More

As the exchange-traded fund marketplace continues to evolve, the recent introduction of "exchange-traded managed funds", aka ETMFs, has opened Pandora’s Box for those who have embraced "traditional" ETFs because of their transparency, real-time pricing (vs “end of day price setting”) and the relative ease of diagnosing liquidity by interrogating bid-offer…Read More