Sector ETFs

Investors looking to liven up the consumer staples trade via exchange-traded funds have several options. There are fundamentally-weighted smart beta strategies, small-cap staples ETFs, mid-cap staples ETFs and equal-weight products devoted to the sector. Another idea is combing U.S. staples stocks...

Investors have heard quite a bit of this lately: The energy sector is the worst-performing group in the S&P 500. However, the struggles of the S&P 500's seventh-largest sector weight are not uniform — certainly not among the exchange-traded funds tracking group. While ETFs that...

Regardless of your political or social leanings, 2016 was a year of unexpected developments in the world of geopolitics. The decision on the part of British voters to leave the European Union as well as the election victory of Donald Trump were two high-impact instances of the unanticipated running...

A small number of US-listed exchange traded funds hit record highs last week, but underscoring the strength in the technology sector, 10 of ETFs hitting all-time highs were tech funds. And proving that semiconductor stocks are playing an important part in technology's 2017 surge, three of the...

Chinese stocks are making their presence felt in this year's emerging markets rally. For example, the largest China exchange traded fund listed in the U.S. is up more than 10 percent year-to-date. Resurgent Chinese stocks are creating opportunities in leveraged China ETFs for risk-tolerant,...

The Industrial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLI), the largest exchange traded fund dedicated to industrial stocks, is up 7.4 percent year-to-date, which slightly trails the S&P 500. That's still a steady performance considering weakness displayed some diversified industrial conglomerates this...

While there is some debate surrounding the future of brick-and-mortar video game retailers, what cannot be argued is the stellar performance of the PureFunds Video Game Tech ETF (NYSE: GAMR). Gaming Grabs Gains The PureFunds Video Game Tech ETF follows the EE Fund Video Game Tech Index (GMB),...

Carter Worth spoke on CNBC's Options Action about a contrarian bet on iShares Silver Trust (ETF) (NYSE: SLV). He thinks that the stock is oversold, after it lost 11.78 percent since mid April and he believes it could rebound and move higher. Worth explained that silver is very volatile and he...

Barely more than two weeks after the first round of France's presidential election, the finale arrives Sunday with centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron squaring off against far right candidate Marie Le Pen. It is clear financial markets prefer Macron and that bad news for Le Pen equals good news...

Holding shares of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) continues to prove beneficial for plenty of exchange-traded funds, particularly consumer discretionary ETFs. The consumer discretionary sector, the fourth-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, is one of this year's best-performing sectors and...

Direxion, one of the largest issuers of inverse and leveraged exchange traded funds, significantly increased its stable of such ETFs Wednesday with the debut of five new products. Several of Direxion's new leveraged ETFs are plays on sectors and industries believed to be beneficiaries of...

May has a bad reputation in terms of equity market performance, but history indicates stocks aren't dreadful in the fifth month year. There are ways for investors to remain long equities as summer kicks off and, not surprisingly, part of that prescription includes defensive, low beta sectors....

The Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLU), the largest utilities exchange traded fund by assets, is up 6.6 percent year-to-date. Although that lags the 7.2 percent returned by the S&P 500, it can be argued the performances delivered by XLU and rival utilities ETFs are pleasant surprises....

European banks was of the most maligned sectors in the world in 2017, at least in the headlines. June's Brexit, not to mention Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB)'s September near-collapse, certainly didn't do a lot to help with sentiment. But the tide looks like it's started to turn. The...

When investors think of asset classes used for inflation protection, one of the primary destinations are Treasury Inflation Protection Securities (TIPS). Indeed, data suggest investors have been putting money to work with TIPS and the relevant exchange-traded funds amid rising inflation data points...