A Look Ahead: Next Week’s ETFs to Watch

This week will be short on trading time as the Christmas holiday means U.S. markets will be open just 3.5 days, but do not expect the week to be short on anxiety. Fiscal cliff anxiety that is. The market's favorite two-word buzz phrase is likely to have markets paralyzed throughout the week because...

U.S. equities eked gains in a trading week shortened to three days by Hurricane Sandy, but following Friday's sell-off, traders' moods can be described as cautious as best heading into next week. The Friday plunge came even as the Labor Department reported the addition of 171,000 new jobs last...

Stocks closed higher on Friday, but it was not to avoid a weekly loss. A six-week winning streak for equities is now over, but riskier assets got a boost on Friday on speculation the European Central Bank could step up its bond-buying efforts. Add that to rampant hopes the Federal Reserve will...

Friday's action was nothing to write home about as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq all made meager gains. However, a broader view of things indicates this rally is now stretching into its third month. Light volume or not, the bulls seem to be in charge and the bears...

Thanks to a surprisingly strong July jobs report, stocks surged to finish the week on Friday giving investors some optimism heading into the second week of August. As has been noted, August has not been the best month to own stocks historically, but it is also worth noting that US equity markets...

A spate of cautionary economic data combined with a plethora of earnings reports that did nothing to excite investors led to a lethargic week of action for U.S. equities. Of course, Europe played a heavy hand in the glum results for stocks as well. The iShares MSCI France Index Fund (NYSE: EWQ)...

It took just four days for the S&P 500 to notch its worst trading week of 2012 and things aren't looking good for a strong Monday open. The epic disappointment that was the March jobs report send S&P 500 futures down 1.1% during Friday's shortened 45-minute trading session. S&P 500...

One thing is for certain: The just finished trading week did not lack for excitement. Whether it was China roiling global markets with more economic data or a suspect ETN setting off a wave controversy this was not a boring week by any stretch of the imagination. With some earnings reports worth...

Here we are nearly two months into 2012 and we're still talking about Greece. Stalled negotiations regarding a bailout package for the "G" in oft-used and notorious PIIGS acronym led to some panic selling at the open today. The totals weren't as bad at the close as they were in the morning, but...

A flurry of late buying helped pare losses for U.S. equities on Friday, but the weekly results weren't too bad as both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed higher on the week. Most of the Dow's Friday decline can be attributed to Chevron's (NYSE: CVX) fourth-quarter earnings that missed Street...