In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the ETF topics and market reviews I posted to my blog during the week ending on 2/17/2013. It just does not seem possible that the trading range can get any tighter than it has been this past week. The S&P 500 gained 2 points from a week ago and featured a …
New ETFs On The Block: First Trust Preferred Securities And Income Fund (FPE)
First Trust, the Wheaton, Illinois-based investment manager and exchange-traded funds provider, has launched the First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF (FPE), the first actively-managed preferred securities fund. The new ETF aims to provide robust current income by primarily investing in preferred securities and income-producing debt securities including corporate bonds, convertible securities and high-yield securities. The fund portfolio consists of …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, February 15, 2013
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2013/02/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-02142013/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, February 15, 2013 US STOCKS SLIDE AS WAL-MART WEIGHS AMID ECONOMIC DATA; EUROPE FALLS AHEAD OF G20 MEETING US equities closed mostly lower Friday with the S&P 500 snapping three days of gains in choppy trading as positive economic data …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 02/14/2013
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, February 14, 2013 If you are not familiar with some of the terminology used, please see the Glossary of Terms. 1. DOMESTIC EQUITY MUTUAL FUNDS/ETFs: BUY — since 10/25/2011 The domestic TTI broke through its long-term trend line generating a Sell for this area effective 8/9/2011. Over the recent past, we’ve seen the …
Stocks Barely Move On European Concern; Recession Weighs On Europe
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US stocks barely budged after another day of low volume trading as shrinking economies in Europe and Japan overshadowed better-than-expected jobless claims on a banner day for M&A deals. The US jobless claims fell by 27,000, the most in a month, to 341,000 in the week ended Feb 9, a Labor Department report showed; that is …
US Stocks Crawl Higher On Data, Speech; Europe Extends Gains For The Second Day
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] While blue-chips declined, most US stocks closed marginally higher Wednesday, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the highest level since Oct 2007 as investors compared slowing retail sales with slightly upbeat earnings report. Before markets opened, data released by the Census Bureau showed US retail sales rose at a seasonally adjusted pace of 0.1 …