ETF Analysis & Opinion

Non-fungible token (NFT) investors have a special reason for tuning into the Super Bowl LVI next Sunday. In September 2021, the National Football League (NFL), along with the National Football League...

Wall Street was pleased with Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Q4 and FY 2021 results released on Feb. 1. Before the release GOOGL stock was around $2,700. The next day, it surged to $3,030.93. The tech...

Wall Street is seeking insulation from inflation by focusing on real assets such as real estate, commodities, natural resources, precious metals or infrastructure investments. Supply and demand...

Better-than-expected quarterly earnings from several heavyweights, such as Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Caterpillar...

February started on a higher note. But after January's rout on Wall Street, volatility looks poised to persist, at least for the next few weeks. As a consequence, many investors are looking to...

In 2021, Wall Street saw over 350 new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) become listed, amounting to a total of 2,570 ETFs stateside by Dec. 31. Globally, there were over 1,330 funds launched last year,...

The uncertainty caused by soaring inflation levels, a hawkish Fed, and novel COVID-19 variants has left many investors scratching their heads. As a consequence, broader markets have turned south. The...

Risk-off conditions, including increasing inflation, put broader markets on edge in January. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 indices have turned lower and lost 6.9% and 11.5% so far in the...

Supply-chain issues dominated headlines in 2021. Since the early days of COVID-19, we have seen a ripple effect across global supply chains, restricting international trade flows. Bottlenecks...

Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in three, injecting a net $15.2 billion for Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows...

Investors looking for exposure to the foreign exchange (forex) market are increasingly researching currency exchange-traded funds (CETFs). As regular brokerage accounts can access these ETFs, retail...

Volatility is back on Wall Street, just as many analysts predicted. The widely-followed VIX index is hovering around the 29 level, its highest in a year. Meanwhile, broader indices including the Dow...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) recently announced the acquisition of the leading video game publisher Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI). The all-cash deal reported on Jan. 18 values ATVI stock at $95 per...

Inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) typically replicate the reverse or the leveraged (usually twice or three times) of the returns of an index daily. Assets in such products increased...