ETFs to Watch December 30, 2011

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Friday December 30, 2011. Let's see how precious metals close the year with the SPDR Gold Shares GLD and the ETFS Physical Palladium Shares PALL. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF XHB was up 3.6% on Thursday. The U.S. Natural Gas Fund UNG continues to spiral lower. Emerging markets plays of the day: Direxion Daily Latin America Bull 3X Shares LBJ, iShares MSCI Chile Investable Market Index Fund ECH and the iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund FXI. Forex play of the day: CurrencyShares Euro Trust FXE. Bond play of the day: Market Vectors High-Yield Muni ETF HYD.