Sector ETFs

While concerns about valuations linger, scores of exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking the technology sector, the largest sector weight in the S&P 500, continue ascending to record highs. One of the technology ETFs that hit a record high Tuesday was the SPDR Morgan Stanley Technology ETF (NYSE...

Pete Najarian said on CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" that he noticed unusually high options activity in VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF(NYSE: SMH) for the second day in a row. A trader bought 34,000 contracts of the November 69 puts on Monday. Najarian explained that this trade...

Shares of Google parent, Alphabet GOOGL, fell 2.94% in after-hours trading on July 24, 2017, owing to reduced profits. The company reported a 21% year-over-year increase in net quarterly revenues. It beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate on both earnings and revenues in the second quarter of 2017....

Gone are the days when the First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (NASDAQ: SKYY) was assailed as a niche fund, too narrowly focused to make it in the hyper-competitive world of exchange-traded funds. SKYY turned six years old earlier this month, and the lone ETF dedicated to the fast-growing cloud...

A deluge of earnings reports will come through this week, with major names in the tech, consumer discretionary and industrial sectors taking the stage. But one sector traders shouldn't sleep on is Healthcare. The third-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, behind technology and financial...

Hopes of a legitimate rebound in oil prices and the related exchange-traded funds were dealt a blow last week when the United States Oil Fund (NYSE: USO), which tracks West Texas Intermediate futures, slid 2.6 percent. Slumping crude prices often pressure some equity-based ETFs, including the...

Big bank earnings season is officially in the books, and it didn’t quite unfold the way bank investors had hoped. Despite mixed numbers from most big banks, trading revenue slumped in the second quarter and dovish commentary from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen suggests rising rates may...

After the closing bell on Thursday, the world's largest software maker Microsoft MSFT delighted investors with stellar fourth-quarter fiscal 2017 results on strong performance by its fast-growing cloud business. Earnings per share came in at 98 cents, easily outpacing the Zacks Consensus...

The new high in the Dow Transports last Friday generated some new bullish market calls. The rapid reversal over the past few days has caught many by surprise as it dropped over 2% in three days. The market’s reaction to Tuesday’s earnings from United Continental (UAL) has not helped....

When investors think about lithium-related investments, Elon Musk's Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) is usually the first instrument to come to mind, but do not forget about the Global X Lithium ETF (NYSE: LIT). LIT was an early adopter to the lithium investing movement, having come to market almost...

Some analysts and research firms can move individual stocks with their upgrades, downgrades and price targets. When it comes to exchange traded funds, ratings aren't believed to be as potent as with single stocks, but data indicate that some highly-rated ETFs deserve those ratings because they...

Financial stocks suffered sell-offs on Friday despite upbeat earnings. Bellwethers like JPMorgan JPM and Citigroup C breezed past the Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings. Wells Fargo WFC missed revenue estimates but beat on earnings (read: De-Stress Your Portfolio by Betting on Bank ETFs). Though...

That was fast. Nearly as quickly as technology swooned late in the second quarter, the sector has come roaring back early in the third quarter. Over the past week, the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLK), the largest technology exchange-traded fund, is higher by 3.6 percent. While XLK...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Pravit Chintawongvanich of Macro Risk Advisors spoke about an options strategy in PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (NYSE: DBA). He explained that the ETF tracks 10 agriculture products which have a very low correlation and as a result the ETF doesn't move too much...

Over the past several years, and even months, a spate of high-profile cybersecurity breaches have turned attention to investments focused on the cybersecurity theme, allowing some exchange traded funds (ETFs) to make names for themselves.   Investors looking to add some leverage to the...