Currency ETFs

Thanksgiving feasts might be on your mind as the week starts, but Black Friday and Cyber Monday have dollar signs spinning in the eyes of retailers who hope you’ll work off calories in the store aisles and online.  Shopping season—a few days shorter than usual this year because of...

By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader With the latest news of Louis Bacon’s closing down his hedge funds, we are seeing further evidence of the difficulties hedge funds have been having during recent years. But, if you think about the counter-intuitive nature of this trend, it is actually quite...

Retail earnings season just ended with an exclamation point. Shares of Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL) and JW Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) both jumped in pre-market trading, with JWN getting an 8% lift and FL up more than 4% to cap what’s generally been a decent stretch for most of the retailers...

After six green weekly candles amounting to a plus-5% climb, the S&P 500 futures contract is likely to log a red week. The /ES is up over 10% since the August lows, making this paltry weekly decline of about 0.3% seem like a mosquito bite. Nonetheless, several signs of slowing momentum appeared...

Are the “three horsemen of risk” ready to ride again as trade worries push the market around? It looks like a “definite maybe” after a report from Reuters Wednesday that the “Phase One” trade deal might get delayed to next year. Volatility, bonds, and gold—...

President Trump is on deck to sign the passing of a Hong Kong civil rights bill that has already made its way through the Senate and House. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted 417-1 in approval of the legislation that the Senate signed on Tuesday. In addition, the House passed a different...

The ongoing U.S.-China trade-deal saga seems like one of those daytime soap operas. Missed a few episodes? No worries; you can get right back into the story line. The back and forth headlines on the tariff situation between the world’s two largest economies and the seesaw effect on the stock...

It was just a few years ago, 2013 and 2014 to be precise, that currency hedged exchange traded funds were all the rage. These days, not so much. Since 2015, ETFs designed to benefit from dollar strength against foreign currencies have beset by $45 billion in outflows. With the Invesco DB US Dollar...

In recent weeks, there has been increasing chatter about value stocks coming back into style in the U.S. For investors seeking deep value outside the U.S., Japan beckons. Up 7.14% year to date, the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (NYSE: DXJ) has been a decent though clearly not spectacular...

When it comes to bitcoin exchange traded funds, seemingly the holy grail of the bitcoin universe, if there's one thing the Securities and Exchange Commission is adept at, it's at delaying decisions on these products. What Happened On Tuesday, the SEC postponed a decision on a filing by...

Less than two weeks after VanEck and SolidX rolled out the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust ETF (XBTC), a bitcoin exchange traded product aimed at institutional investors, the firms said they're withdrawing plans for bitcoin exchange traded fund aimed at a broader swath of investors. What Happened...