A Look Ahead: Next Week’s ETFs to Watch

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...

U.S. stocks started 2012 in decent fashion, but Friday's action can be viewed as a disappointment following the December jobs report that showed employers added 200,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5%, the lowest since February 2009. What should have been news that was...