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Hottest ETFs

Hottest ETFs on the Move

July 17, 2010

It was a tumultuous week in the market with events ranging from the Goldman settlement and disappointing earnings elsewhere in Financials to Apple’s mea culpa to less than stellar jobs numbers. Broader indices ended the week slightly down with the S&P500 (SPY) losing 1.2% and the NASDAQ (QQQQ) losing 0.6%. Volatility picked up and the [...]

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Actively Managed ETF Wins in Both Up and Down Markets

July 15, 2010

I was a bit skeptical when I started to see “actively managed ETFs” popping up over the past couple years, so I thought I’d take a look at one of the larger ones and see how it’s performed vs. the broader market. In looking at the PowerShares Active AlphaQ (PQY), I was actually surprised by [...]

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Significant Factors Impacting Financials – ETF Plays to Consider

June 30, 2010

Financial ETFs have been among the most volatile sectors over the past few years, with the sector swinging from near complete collapse to euphoria over year over year comps for earnings (any positive earnings announcement compared to a year ago multi-billion dollar loss looks great). With the the investment banks especially, able to borrow from [...]

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ETFs on the Move: Winners in the Down Market

June 6, 2010

With the S&P500 losing over 3% on the week on a poor jobs report, further implosion of the Euro zone (check out country by country EU Austerity Measures) and the realization that the disaster in the Gulf is likely going to start to have long term implications outside the scope of whatever legal bills BP [...]

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ETFs to Watch – May’s Hottest ETFs

May 31, 2010

After one of the most tumultuous months in stocks investors have seen since the financial collapse, it’s instructive to take a look back and see which ETFs fared well through the flash crash, an imploding EU, an environmental disaster in the gulf unfolding before our eyes and a possible war brewing in the Koreas. For [...]

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See the 6 ETFs that Rallied during Thursday’s Selloff

May 6, 2010

With global indices tanking on the notion that there’s no stopping further implosion in Europe regardless of the austerity measures approved by Greece on Thursday, investor panic set in and an alleged fat finger trader mistake on a single Proctor & Gamble (PG) trade sent the US majors down 10% instantaneously. While markets recovered to [...]

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6 Hottest ETFs to Watch This Week

April 25, 2010

Markets continued their advance this week in the face of a potentially damning SEC inquiry into Goldman’s practices. This news was countered by surprisingly strong housing data which showed the biggest jump in new home sales since 1963. Elsewhere in China, there is continued sentiment that there may be a housing bubble brewing there which [...]

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Profiting from Innovation with the Patent ETF

April 19, 2010

With the seemingly endless imagination of ETF inventors, the aptly focused Patent ETF is certainly interesting and may hold promise as a market-beating ETF moving forward based on both past performance and the reasonable thesis that innovation translates into comparatively stronger financial performance for shareholders. The CLAYMORE/OCEAN TOMO PATENT ETF (OTP) focuses on companies that [...]

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6 Hottest ETFs to Watch This Week

April 11, 2010

Again, markets advanced, taking some of the year’s hottest performing ETFs with them. We saw the same theme of rebounding real estate and financials while China showed strength and in the non-leveraged segment, commodities rallied even in the face of a mildly stronger dollar index for the week. For the week ended 4/11/2010, here’s a [...]

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