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Market Wisdom with Professor Jeremy Siegel

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 22:47:12 GMT

Professor Jeremy Siegel, WisdomTree’s Senior Investment Strategy Advisor and Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, provides his perspective on the current market. Click below to listen to the podcast on WisdomTree’s website:

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International Stock ETFs Look Like an Attractive Option

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:32:47 GMT

Foreign markets have underperformed U.S. equities over the past decade, but it might be time for investors to consider international stocks and related exchange traded fund exposure. Over the past decade, the iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (NasdaqGM: ACWX), which tracks the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index, generated an average annualized return of 4.3% [...]

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Alternative Access Funds Announces CLO Bond ETF, ‘AAA’

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:22:19 GMT

On Tuesday, Alternative Access Funds, LLC (“AAF”) announced that its registration for the AAF First Priority CLO Bond ETF (AAA) is currently scheduled to become effective on August 14th, 2020. Alternative Access is expected to be one of the first in the industry to give investors the ability to purchase exposure to the first-priority collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”) [...]

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A Smart Beta Miner ETF to Capture the Gold Rush

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:47:29 GMT

Exchange traded fund investors interested in the gold markets can consider gold and gold mining equities, which benefit from higher metal prices, and historically move in the opposite direction of broader equity markets. In a recent webcast, Prepare for the Post-Pandemic World with Gold, Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors, outlined [...]

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Economically Sensitive Sector ETFs Begin to Take Charge

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:44:21 GMT

Sector exchange traded funds that are particularly sensitive to the changes of the U.S. economy led the charge on Tuesday on signs of declining Coronavirus cases and improving economic data helped bolster investor sentiment. Among the best performing non-leveraged ETFs of Tuesday, the First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF (Nasdaq: FTXO) increased 3.0%, iShares U.S. Regional [...]

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Precious Metals ETFs Crash as Investors Embrace Riskier Assets

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:41:55 GMT

Precious metals exchange traded funds plunged Tuesday, with gold suffering its worst one-day pullback in seven years, as investors shifted toward a more risk-on attitude and locked in some profits from the bullion’s record run. Among the worst-performing non-leveraged ETFs of Tuesday, the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD) declined 5.3% and the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) plunged [...]

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Could A Twitter Acquisition Of TikTok Help Boost Social Media ETFs?

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:41:11 GMT

Although the stock is down slightly today amid a tech slump in the Nasdaq Composite and the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), Microsoft has been in the news along with Twitter. The latter is attracting the interest of bullish options traders amid reports that the social media company has had preliminary talks concerning a possible takeover of [...]

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Precious Metals ETFs Slump As Investors Dump Gold And Silver

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:39:39 GMT

Safe haven assets are getting pummeled on Tuesday, as investors pile into stocks, driving the S&P toward fresh all-time highs, and sinking Treasurys and precious metals. Silver, which has rallied tremendously recently is down more than 13% Tuesday, dragging silver ETFs down a with it. Precious metals prices are precipitously lower in midday U.S. trading [...]

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U.S. Stock ETFs Strengthened with S&P 500 Shy of Record Highs

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:52:30 GMT

U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds rose Tuesday with the S&P 500 pushing toward its first record close since February and on pace for its eighth consecutive day of gains. On Tuesday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) was down 0.3%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) rose 1.1%, and SPDR S&P 500 [...]

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Lithium Deals Could Provide Spark for LIT ETF

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:50:17 GMT

Against the backdrop of the electric vehicle boom, the Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF (NYSEArca: LIT) is standing out, but there are other catalysts on the horizon for the lone lithium ETF. LIT tracks the Solactive Global Lithium Index. The underlying index is designed to measure broad-based equity market performance of global companies [...]

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Inflation Prep Is Becoming More Relevant Thanks to Low Rates

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:48:13 GMT

With interest rates poised to stick near historical lows for several more years at least, investors need to consider inflation preparation. The FlexShares iBoxx 3-Year Target Duration TIPS Index Fund (NYSEArca: TDTT) is an ETF that helps accomplish that objective. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) are popular among fixed-income investors looking to protect against the scourge [...]

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Treasury Prices And Bond ETFs Fall Amid Vaccine News

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:46:21 GMT

Treasury yields rallied on Tuesday amid optimism over a potential vaccine from Russia, which drove investors away from safe haven assets like bonds and precious metals. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note increased 6 basis points to 0.6407% while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond climbed 8 basis points to 1.3252% as bond prices fell. Yields move [...]

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Minimize Call Writing Risk With NUSI

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:45:23 GMT

The Nationwide Risk-Managed Income ETF (NYSEArca: NUSI) is an increasingly popular income strategy. Aside from its tempting, NUSI delivers for investors on another front: taking the work and some of the risk out of selling individual covered calls. NUSI is an actively managed portfolio of stocks included in the Nasdaq-100 Index and an options collar. [...]

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Another Growing Niche Addressed by This Hot ETF

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:42:53 GMT

The ARK Web x.0 ETF (NYSEArca: ARKW) is easily one of this year’s great success stories among ETFs and that’s especially true of actively managed funds. More importantly, ARKW has the goods to continue delivering for investors over the long-term. Heralded for its cloud computing exposure, among other compelling traits, ARKW leverages its cloud allocations [...]

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Possibilities Remain Plentiful for This Innovative ETF

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:38:51 GMT

With significant tailwinds by way of the coronavirus pandemic, the Principal Healthcare Innovators Index ETF (Nasdaq: BTEC) is a rising star among healthcare ETFs. Fortunately, the long-term outlook for the Principal ETF is compelling, too, indicating it can thrive when the virus is finally defeated. BTEC tracks the Nasdaq U.S. Healthcare Innovators Index, which is designed [...]

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Bitcoin Helps, but There’s More to This ETF’s Story

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:35:04 GMT

Bitcoin and blockchain are often joined at the hip and with the former rallying, the latter could come back into focus, meaning it’s an ideal time to revisit ETFs, such as the Reality Shares Nasdaq NextGen Economy ETF (NASDAQ: BLCN). BLCN tracks the Reality Shares Nasdaq Blockchain Economy Index. That index “is designed to measure [...]

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Lack of Tourism is a Punch to the Gut for Emerging Markets

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:29:30 GMT

Covid-19 itself is wreaking havoc on emerging markets (EM) economies trying to fight the pandemic itself, but a lot of EM countries are taking a revenue punch to the gut with a lack of tourism. “That is bad news for jet-setters but potentially disastrous for a handful of emerging-market economies,” a Wall Street Journal article [...]

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Amazon Still Tops List of Cloud-Based Services

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:25:37 GMT

When it comes to cloud-based services, it’s Amazon that still reigns supreme. However, not to far behind are Google and Microsoft, which all bodes well for investors in cloud computing exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “According to a Gartner report, Amazon pulled in an estimated $20 billion in IaaS cloud revenue in 2019, leading with a 45% [...]

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Government Plays Role in Cementing Renewable Energy Dominance

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:42:01 GMT

The ALPS Clean Energy (ACES) is already one of 2020’s best industry ETFs and, obviously, the fund is chock full of private enterprises. However, there are still ways the federal government can impact the renewable energy sector for the bettor. ACES follows the CIBC Atlas Clean Energy Index. That benchmark is comprised of U.S. and Canada-based companies that primarily [...]

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T. Rowe Price Active ETFs: State Street Chosen as Service Provider

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:24:11 GMT

For the four T. Rowe Price active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that launched last week, State Street Corporation was appointed the ETF service provider. The funds, which are listed on NYSE Arca, Inc., include T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth ETF (TCHP), T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth ETF (TDVG), T. Rowe Price Equity Income ETF (ticker symbol: [...]

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