Sector ETFs

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Friday May 24, 2013. The Global X Silver Miners ETF (NYSE: SIL) is worth a look. Obvious plays of the day: iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (NYSE: EWJ) and the Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLU). Keep an eye on the Vanguard Consumer Staples...

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Thursday May 23, 2013. Keep the an eye on the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE: TAN). The iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) remains in play. Give the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (NYSE: XOP) a look. Hedge your bets...

Few U.S. chief executive officers are as hot as Elon Musk these days. Musk is the CEO of not one, but two of the highest flying publicly traded companies in the U.S. SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), the maker of solar energy systems for business and residential customers, has seen its shares more than...

It has been said the S&P 500's ascent to what feels like a string of never ending new highs has been a rally short on risk-taking and long on low beta fare. At the sector level, and it is sectors that lead equity markets not vice versa, there are signs risk is coming back into style....

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) looks terrible. The First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index Fund (NYSE: FCG) does not. Keep an eye on the Guggenheim Timber ETF (NYSE: CUT). Emerging markets plays of the day: iShares MSCI...

Natural gas futures are volatile. That much is widely known and that volatility explains the allure of an ETF such as the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE: UNG) for active, short-term traders. With natural gas futures soaring recently and getting another lift Tuesday after the U.S. National Weather...

Today's low interest rate environment has sent investors scurrying for yield across myriad asset classes. Whether it is with traditional dividend stocks, multi-asset products or bank loan and junk bond ETFs, investors have an increasing array of choices with which to generate income....

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Obvious plays of the day: Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: NUGT) and the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE: TAN). Give the SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (NYSE: FEZ) a look. The First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index Fund (...

It’s a story as old and sadly, as ordinary as the U.S. equity market performance of late and equally as sad-or interesting-or mundane-or expected, is that it’s happening for the same reasons. Reuters is reporting that the Nikkei, the stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, hit a five...

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Monday, May 20, 2013. Metals plays: Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX) and the Global X Silver Miners ETF (NYSE: SIL). Keep an eye on the SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (NYSE: XME). Check in with the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotech Index...