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Ray Hendon submits: In retrospect, 2007 was the year of the bond ETF , and it was the year the bond war began. You can’t have a war with only one army, of course, and prior to 2007, Barclays had the field to itself. They introduced their first two bond ETFs in 2002 (iShares Lehman 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) & iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)), and added their third and fourth...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Carl T. Delfeld submits: Hong Kong ETFs such as the iShares MSCI (EWH) and NETS (HKG) have been acting better during the past week even when China-focused ETFs are taking a drubbing. But the venerable Hong Kong Stock Exchange fully expects a challenging second half of the year due to weaker investor sentiment, after Asia’s third largest exchange reported a 6% drop in second quarter net profits. Complete...
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
iShares Silver Trust (SLV), the largest silver-backed exchange traded fund (ETF), has somehow defied the price of silver dropping. While silver has lost 40% of its value, the holdings within SLV have only gone up to a record 6,474.04 tonnes of average 1,000 oz. silver bars, reports Melissa Pestini for Silver Investing News. Any thoughts of silver [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Exchange-traded funds tracking home-builder shares were among the top gainers in ETFs on Wednesday. FocusShares ISE Homebuilders was up more than 5% in early afternoon trading. Meanwhile, iShares DJ U.S. Home Construction and SPDR Homebuilders were both up more than 4%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Todd Chalem submits: A few months ago I wrote about fear indicators and how, at the time, they were all flashing bright screaming red. I also watch spreads between Corporate bonds and Treasuries. This graph is the one month price action on the spread between the iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD) and the iShares 7-10 Treasury ETF (IEF). It's not a perfect representation of credit spreads...
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Inflation is knocking on Canada’s door, and this may mean a slowdown for the iShares MSCI Canada (EWC) exchange traded fund (ETF), as well. The annual inflation rate rose to its highest since 2003 for our Northern neighbors, mostly because of the higher gas prices for drivers. Consumer prices rose 3.4% from July 2007, and inflation [...]
Singapore News Alternative (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Seeking Alpha, 25 Aug 2008, Carl T. Delfeld Temasek, Singapore's second-largest sovereign wealth fund, [SWF] is certainly doing far better than Singapore exchange-traded funds such as the iShares MSCI Singapore (EWS) that is down almost 17% year-to-date. The lesson is that it pays to play as a big boy with lots of cash and negotiating leverage. Read More
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Exchange-traded funds tracking small-capitalization stocks were among the largest decliners on Monday as a result of their relatively higher weighting to the troubled financial sector. The iShares Russell 2000 , which has about 20% in the financial sector, lost nearly 3% in midday trades Monday. The small-cap ETF is roughly flat so far this year when factoring in Monday's pullback,...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Carl T. Delfeld submits: Temasek, Singapore's second-largest sovereign wealth fund, [SWF] is certainly doing far better than Singapore exchange-traded funds such as the iShares MSCI Singapore (EWS) that is down almost 17% year-to-date. The lesson is that it pays to play as a big boy with lots of cash and negotiating leverage. Complete Story »
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Mexico and its exchange traded fund (ETF) are feeling down in the dumps, but its outpacing some other regions. The iShares Mexico Fund (EWW) has fared better than Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada, Australia and Brazil to name a few, so what gives? It could be that although growth is slow, it is steady and consistent. [...]
Teresa Lo | InVivoAnalytics.com (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
You asked for a Canadian version of the conservative retirement portfolio, so we made one using five exchange traded funds by iShares, each one representing a core asset class: iShares CDN Composite Index Fund (XIC) iShares CDN S&P 500 Index Fund (XSP) iShares CDN MSCI EAFE Index Fund (XIN) iShares CDN Real Return Bond Index Fund (XRB) iShares CDN [...]
Trading to Win (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Was going through the charts and noticed what I think might develop into longer term long trade, suitable for IRAs accounts - once in profit change the stop loss order once a week...of course..."once on the green" Here is a long term weekly chart of (FXI) iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Grey lines are standard deviation regression channel, red lines - trendlines outlining descending triangle, which...
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Sometimes, big things come in small packages, and this summer’s surprise market upswing has revealed that the small-cap focused exchange traded funds(ETFs) are full of surprises. To date, the best small-cap sampler is the iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) which has gained 14% for the month ended Aug. 15, almost double of the large-cap tracker SPDR [...]
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Tom Szabo submits: Some of us have speculated before about the reason Barclays split the iShares Silver ETF (SLV) 10:1 (and some other ETFs by varying amounts) on July 21. Personally, I thought it had to do with added liquidity, an attempt to align the ETF’s price with the underlying (silver bullion) itself, attracting smaller investors, and/or a desire to move toward real-time NAV calculations like...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Robert Bruce initiated holdings in Electricity company IShares Trust iShares S&P World ExU.S. P (WPS) during the 3-months ended 2008-06-30. His purchase prices were between $ 39.07 and $ 46.9, with an estimated average price of $ 44.1. The impact to his portfolio due to this purchase was 0.52 %. His holdings was 11588 shares as of 2008-06-30. As of last market close, the price of IShares Trust iShares...
