MarketsMuse.com update courtesy of extract from Jan 6 ETF.com article by Dennis Hudacheck, with a look at Eurobond ETFs $HEDJ,$DBEU, $HEZU, $EZU, $DBEZ, $VGK, $FEZ, $DFE All eyes are on the European Central Bank’s Jan. 22, 2015 meeting, as it’s no secret that ECB President Mario Draghi has been hinting…Read More

Below fast market update courtesy of Rareview Macro LLC a.m. edition of global macro strategy commentary “Sight Beyond Sight"; MarketsMuse is re-publishing this extract no more than 10 minutes of current subscribers receipt..Our thanks to the folks at Rareview! • New Position: Long Canadian Dollar versus Short Swiss Franc (CAD/CHF)…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon’s 6 January story. Vanguard, the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds, has filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce the firm’s municipal bond ETF. The Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund will be the firm’s first tax-exempt index fund…Read More

MarketsMuse editor note: The following post, extracted from Jan 6 submission to ETFtrends.com is best described as an advertorial courtesy of WisdomTree Investments, one of the ETF industry’s leading Issuers. While readers of MarketsMuse might be inclined to muse “[This ‘case study’ is] Elementary, my dear Watson, totally elementary!,” MarketsMuse…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ValueWalk. It’s the first (real) week back from holiday break, but the story is the same as it was before Christmas, and before Thanksgiving for that matter…. Crude Oil continues to fall like a lead oil filled balloon, falling below the $50 mark on Monday for…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of ETF.com’s Ollie Ludwig— Nasdaq, the stock exchange company that’s also pushing deep into the world of indexing, significantly added to its index-provider profile by agreeing to acquire the technical analysis and ETF firm Dorsey Wright & Associates for $225 million in debt and cash on hand.…Read More

MarktMuse update courtesy of extract from ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon. After natural gas futures dipped below $3 for the first time in two years, the commodity and related exchange traded funds are warming up on cold weather next week, but any gains may be brief as temperatures could remain above…Read More

MarketsMuse editor note: For those not familiar with leveraged ETFs, before reading this special column, you’ll want to get up to speed with Investopedia’s defintion, otherwise, ETF industry experts and observers have new ammunition in which to debate the pros and cons of leveraged ETF products. If you find that…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of extracts from Tom Lydon’s 31 December ETF Trends story. The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, famed for suing Mark Zuckerburg, claiming he stole Facebook from their own social networking site ConncetU, have started another new venture.  In April 2013, they claimed that they owned of 1%…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extracts from 31 December story in industry mag Markets Media.com The buy side is becoming more targeted with sell-side firms, employing a rifle rather than a shotgun approach as liquidity continues to shrink. A big factor behind this newfound independence has been the lessening of liquidity…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon. European equities and related exchange traded funds could outperform in 2015, capitalizing on lower energy prices, an improved export outlook and potentially more European Central Bank easing. For instance, the iShares MSCI EMU ETF (NYSEArca: EZU) and the SPDR EURO STOXX 50 (NYSEArca: FEZ) both focus…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from Bloomberg’s Jim Polson Bargain-seeking investors have turned bullish on embattled energy stocks, plowing record amounts into the industry. More than $3.13 billion went into exchange-traded funds holding stakes in Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB)and other energy stocks this month, even as the price of…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from ThinkAdvisor Assets invested in U.S.-listed exchange-trade funds/exchange-traded products reached the $2 trillion milestone. ETFGI is reporting that, as of Dec. 22, ETP assets have increased 18% this year from $1.698 trillion to $2.007 trillion based on positive market performance and net new assets. David Mazza, head…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from ETFtrends.com column by Senior Editor Todd Shriber.. Exchange traded funds holding high-yield debt have stumbled this year due in large part to sliding oil prices. Some options traders are betting on further declines for the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca:…Read More

MarketsMuse is pleased to re-distribute below thoughts courtesy of David Kotok, Chairman and CIO of Cumberland Advisors, the ETF-centric RIA: US markets hit successive new highs in 2014. The economic recovery seems to stay on track while gradually improving and increasing its rate of growth. Labor-force-related problems seem to be…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from 22 December edition of  Bloomberg, with reporting by Dave Michaels.  F-Squared Investments Inc. agreed to pay $35 million over U.S. regulatory claims that it misled investors about the performance of a trading strategy used by exchange-traded funds. The firm admitted that performance data used to market…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from 18 December edition of  Reuters, with reporting by James Saft Here is the thing about investing: wherever you go, there you are. Which is another way of saying that we carry our problems, weaknesses and foibles as investors around with us, no matter how we…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from 19 December edition of FT.com, with reporting by Tracy Alloway Extreme movements in the prices of bonds, commodities and other assets have prompted regulators at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to take a closer look at the inner workings of exchange traded…Read More