[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Equity and bond index ETFs were battered and beaten on Monday, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a nine-week low and adding to last week’s move downward. The focal points on those fronts were the 10-yr note yield, which spiked to 2.66% in early action, and the uncertainty surrounding what impact the Federal Reserve’s …
ETFs/Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated Through 6/21/2013
Below are the latest ETF Cutline reports, which show how far above or below their respective long-term trend lines (39 week SMA) my currently tracked ETFs/MFs are positioned. The first report covers the ETF Master List from Thursday’s StatSheet and includes 398 ETFs, of which currently 263 (last week 313) are hovering in bullish territory. The second report includes only …
Last Week In Review: ETF News And Blog Posts To 6/23/2013
In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the ETF topics and market commentaries I posted to my blog during the week ending on 6/23/2013. The bulls started the past week with a bang only to see the bears move in, take over and dish out a severe spanking. The S&P 500 gave back more than 2%, while world …
New ETFs On The Block: Powershares Global Short Term High Yield Bond Portfolio (PGHY)
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, the Wheaton, Illinois-based sponsor of quantitative rules-based exchange traded-funds, has launched a short-term, high-yield/junk global bond ETF in an effort to bring more variety in the short-term yield-focused fixed-income world that’s currently dominated by a handful of successful ETFs. Since longer maturity bonds are generally more sensitive to interest rate movements, these securities came under …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, June 21, 2013
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2013/06/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-06202013/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, June 21, 2013 BIG WEEKLY LOSSES DESPITE LATE GAINS U.S. equities escaped from ending in the red on the heels of the worst two-day decline in over a year and closed mostly higher on Friday. Blue chip stocks were able …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 06/20/2013
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, June 20, 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 …