Value Investing News - Comments (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Have you looked at Barra's S&P 500 fundamental data time series? The data goes back quite a ways, however, it stopped being updated in 2005. I've also gone to the iShares for index fund P/E data. I'm also interested in this data and would like to learn of other sources.
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Brett Steenbarger submits: ( click chart to enlarge ) We hear about "credit crisis" and "risk aversion", but I thought I would make those issues much more concrete for readers. This is not some volatile stock or sector, and it's not a bank. This is a chart of LQD, the iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund. Note that it's not a junk bond ETF; rather, its holdings are considered investment grade....
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Fund , which tracks the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, fell 9.5% Monday after preliminary indications showed the U.S. House of Representatives voting against a rescue package for the financial sector. In Brazil, the Bovespa stock index tumbled more than 10%. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged as much...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
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SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Carl T. Delfeld submits: Here's my ETF pick for this week: iShares MSCI Switzerland (EWL). While only 137 miles by 216 miles in size, with a population of 7.2 million, Switzerland packs a punch and is a multinational powerhouse. Let’s take a quick look at the asset side of Switzerland’s balance sheet. Complete Story »
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) To help investors navigate the recent turbulence in the markets, iShares is posting videos of insights and commentary by iShares and Barclays Global Investors' (BGI) experts. Lee Kranefuss, Global CEO of iShares, along with Russ Koesterich, BGI's Head of Investment Strategy, and Pete Wilson, BGI's Head of Fixed Income Strategy, are among those experts sharing their ideas...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Don Dion submits: The iShares Cohen & Steers Realty ETF (ICF) offers a fairly straightforward and cautious approach to the notoriously volatile real estate sector, largely avoiding mortgage real estate investment trusts REITs and rarely straying far from the largest REITs of the commercial real estate world. That approach has yielded appealing results so far in 2008—a year in which the broader real...
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced that the iShares S&P 100 Index ETF (NYSE Arca: OEF) transferred to the NYSE Arca listing platform from the CBOE. As an industry leader in ETF and ETN listings and trading, exchange traded products listed on NYSE Arca represent 53% of ETF and ETN assets under management in the U.S., nearly $597 billion, the most of any exchange.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Barclays Global Investors (BGI), one of the world's largest institutional asset managers and Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) managers, announced today the successful transfer of the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund (ticker: IBB) from the American Stock Exchange to The NASDAQ Stock Market and the iShares S&P 100 Index Fund (ticker: OEF) from the Chicago Board Options...
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ ) today announced that the iShares(r) Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund (Nasdaq: IBB ) began trading today on The NASDAQ Stock Market(r) (NASDAQ(r)). Barclays Global Investors (BGI), one of the world's largest institutional asset managers and Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) managers, transferred the fund to NASDAQ from the American Stock Exchange.
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Thomas Smicklas submits: As reported, during the unraveling of the worst of last week's financial crisis, investors were looking for safe havens. Certainly, precious metals will fit that category, but I believe that for many investors a healthy dose of iShares' Switzerland (EWL) may worth a look to cure high anxiety. First, the currency if Switzerland has traditionally been viewed as solid and less...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Recap of CNBC's Fast Money, Friday September 19. The Big Bail - SPDR Trust (SPY), iShares Russell 2000 (IWM), BB&T (BBT), Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), U.S. Bancorp (USB) Complete Story »
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
While waiting to find out the sordid details of the new " permanent plan " to shore up the ailing mortgage market (seriously, that's what they're calling it), it's worth noting that the iShares Silver Trust (AMEX: SLV ) added a little to its inventory today. There has been a net addition of 78.1 tonnes of "the poor man's gold" to the fund over the last three days and, like the shortages, delays, or...
SeekingAlpha Retail Stocks (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Don Dion submits: With AIG (AIG), Lehman Brothers (LEH) and Merrill Lynch (MER) dominating the financial headlines to start the week, the economic outlook seemed to grow bleaker yet again, and those who have been skeptical about consumer spending—for months now, even years—seemed to gather more ammunition. How this Black Sunday works itself out remains to be seen, but so far in this economic slowdown,...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: With Wall Street in a free fall, investors are wondering if municipalities, especially in the New York region, will begin to suffer as local economies will surely struggle. One way to trade or just track the muni-bond market is through ETFs. iShares has an ETF for the national muni-bond market (MUB), the New York region (NYF), and California (CMF). As shown in...
