ETF Analysis & Opinion

The foreign exchange market is the largest and most liquid financial market worldwide. Currencies move for a range of reasons, such as economic data, interest rates and inflation levels. Traders,...

Long-term equity portfolios typically diversify across sectors and regions, as well as market capitalization (cap). Understanding the characteristics of these categories is important as they have...

On Oct. 1 a new, thematic exchange-traded fund (ETF) was launched, with a focus on special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs)—a trend that's become Wall Street's most recent darling.The fund,...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) enable market participants to trade baskets of assets in single transactions on formal exchanges. Today, we re-visit the topic of bond ETFs and introduce several funds...

Recent data highlight that segments of the U.S. real estate sector have been booming as people fearful of the ongoing pandemic spread and sheltering in place look to leave big cities and search for...

Welcome to October, a month that has a scary reputation among investors. Indeed, several of the biggest equity market crashes occurred in October.For example, Black Monday, which happened on Oct. 19,...

So far this week, we've discussed how to navigate short-term volatility, especially if a bear market follows the current declines in broader indices. Now, we'll pause to remind ourselves why most...

Equity markets are getting ready to wrap up a volatile September. The bears have been in control of broader indices. Short-term rallies were followed by larger declines, and many Wall Street...

Today we turn our attention to the Asia Pacific region to look at two of the many exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offering access to investments in the region. These funds usually are divided into...

As west coast wildfires continue burning in the US and hurricane season ramps up, with hurricanes Sally, Isaias, Laura, Paulette, Alpha, Beta, Teddy and others already making headlines, the potential...

Electric vehicles are on track to disrupt the automobile industry in this new decade. The 'green' momentum is buoying shares in a broad range of EV and alternative-energy companies. As investors race...

For all the myriad hazards that have occurred so far in 2020, astonishingly, it's turned out to be a blockbuster year for initial public offerings. So much so that some are comparing the current...

Amid the recent declines in broader markets, a blockbuster stock debut has been making headlines: cloud-based data-warehousing firm Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW).While the company priced its initial public...

Following the Fed's latest policy decision on Sept. 16, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Press discussed the "new normal," in which interest rates are likely to remain close to zero until the...