Courtesy of John Spence, ETF Trends The percentage of ETF trading relative to overall volume tends to shoot higher in headline-driven markets when asset classes are moving together on macroeconomic or political events. That’s exactly what happened on Monday when global markets swooned on fears parliamentary elections in Italy will…Read More
Courtesy of Jeff Sommer, New York Times THE economy may be lurching into another crisis, but you wouldn’t know it from the stock market, where an epic party is under way. Yet this effervescence belies some ominous developments in politics and the economy. After the State of the Union address…Read More
Courtesy of Olly Ludwig Sooner or later the bond market is going to start falling, and a perfect exchange-traded vehicle to play the unraveling of the more than three-decade rally in fixed-income markets is “LQD,” a corporate bond fund that happens to be one of the largest fixed-income ETF in…Read More
Courtesy of MarketsMedia.com The burgeoning exchange-traded funds sector in Europe is expected to grow still further in the coming years, after the industry recently celebrated its 20th birthday. ETFs, which are funds that track baskets of shares, bonds or commodities and are traded like stocks, were invented in 1993 in…Read More
Solid WSJ article courtesy of reporter Telis Demos (Jan 27 WSJ).. MarketsMuse has taken liberty and extracted most interesting observations.. ".... In recent years, a computer typically would have swiftly matched such an order with a buyer, sidestepping trading floors altogether.....But more recent soft trading volume has left many traders…Read More
Courtesy of the ETF Professor at Benzinga.com U.S. equities and other riskier assets are in rally mode in the first trading session of 2013 after lawmakers finally got around to agreeing on legislation that steered the U.S. away from the dreaded fiscal cliff. News that a deal was in the…Read More
Courtesy of Olly Ludwig at IndexUniverse.com Dennis Gartman is about as raging a bull as you can find these days. At a time when many investors remain beaten down in the volatile “risk-on/risk-off” aftermath of the crash of 2008, and uncertain about how high taxes will go in 2013, the…Read More
Extracts courtesy of a special year-end story from Terry Flanagan at MarketsMedia The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index stood at 1,380 in mid-November, down about 5% from 1,450 five years earlier. To a visitor from Mars, the similarity of the numbers could suggest that it was a quiet period…Read More
Courtesy of Rosalyn Retkwa When it comes to the broad-based emerging-markets equity ETFs, Vanguard’s MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) is clearly the top dog. As of December 11, VWO had a market cap of $58.66 billion and an average daily volume of 17.74 million shares. But back on October…Read More
December 3, New York, NY—WallachBeth Capital LLC (“WB”), the institutional agency broker specializing in options and Exchange-Traded-Fund (ETFs), announced the hiring of Matt Gohd, the trading market strategist whose contrarian market calls have been widely-followed for two decades by leading hedge fund managers and industry observers. Mr. Gohd, a…Read More
By Ari Weinberg | November 26, 2012 Pension fund managers considering expanding their use of exchange-traded funds must always bear in mind that trading ETFs is entirely different from trading stocks. Entering a transaction without a clear understanding of the market dynamics for the ETF and the underlying stocks…Read More
Courtesy of John Carney/CNBC MarketsMuse Editor Note: article below was published Tuesday Nov 13 at 6pm, in advance of $FB lock-up expiration. Eight hundred million shares of Facebookare set to “flood” the market Wednesday, as the company’s biggest post-IPO lockup expires. This has many investors fearful that stock sales from…Read More
By Ryan Issakainen Ryan Issakainen is an exchange-traded fund strategist for ETF provider First Trust. WHEATON, Ill. (MarketWatch) — One of the biggest attractions of exchange-traded funds is that they are often considerably more tax-efficient than mutual funds. Many ETFs regularly take steps to avoid the annual capital gains distributions…Read More
Courtesy of Jason Zweig / WSJ Columnist On Sept. 21, Charles Schwab, SCHW -0.74%the discount broker, cranked up its publicity machine to announce it is cutting expenses on its 15 exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, by an average of 50%, to as low as 0.04%. Invest $10,000 and you can pay as…Read More
Courtesy of the ETF Professor at Benzinga.com MarketsMuse extends our warm wishes to all of those celebrating the Jewish New Year and extending you "L'Shanah Tovah" Today's piece from ETF Professor couldn't be better timed considering the upcoming (Oct 11) European Investing & Trading Summit at London's May Fair Hotel…Read More
For those institutional fund managers, hedge fund traders and anyone else that's tired of watching the volatility shrink, the Futures Industry Association is joining with the Options Industry Council to host a special conference this week (Sept 12 & 13th) at the New York Marriott Marquis. However dry these programs…Read More
Courtesy of Forbes Contributor Ari Weinberg July 30 If you invest in exchange-traded funds, you’ve probably heard about the forthcoming service from IndexUniverse. If you really follow ETFs, you’ve probably wondered what took them so long. Years in the making, publisher IndexUniverse is finally rolling out its own ratings and…Read More