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Why Aren’t Investors Calling On Telecom ETFs?

The iShares DJ Telecom Fund (IYZ) has been one of the weaker performers over the last 6 months. Indeed, it’s been a bit of an underachiever throughout 2009 with a 14.3% total return. Vanguard Telecom (VOX) has been a little stronger with a total YTD ...

From GARY GORDON, ETF Investor,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Morningstar, Inc.,  iShares

5 Most Popular Hard Asset ETFs

The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) hit a brand new high yesterday. Indeed, the commodity is outperforming the S&P 500 in 2009. Yet some investors confuse Commodity ETFs — investments that offer exposure to the spot price of a physical substance — and Hard Asset ...

From GARY GORDON, ETF Investor,  10 Nov 2009

Want to Know Where Stocks Are Going? Watch China ETFs

You may recall, the CNBC eccentric declared his view that an official 7% decline had just started on 10/28/09. The disingenuous part was… major benchmark ETFs like the the PowerShares Nasdaq 100 (QQQQ), the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY) and Vanguard Total ...

From GARY GORDON, ETF Investor,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CNBC,  Jim Cramer

Play 'Roubini and Rogers' ETFs

Jim Rogers and Nouriel Roubini. Each has been credited with spectacular powers of foresight. Writers happily proclaim that Rogers predicted the commodities boom in 1999. Few seem to mention that Rogers failed to see the commodity bust of 2008 ...

From GARY GORDON, The Street,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jim Rogers,  Nouriel Roubini,  CNBC

SPDR Convertible Bond ETF: Beats the Market, But Gets No Respect

I track portfolios using software on my computer network and I use web-based applications. I even use simple tools like Yahoo Finance for instantaneous access to data. Yet Yahoo Finance has an inexplicable quirk when it comes to the SPDR Barclays ...

From GARY GORDON, Seeking Alpha,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Rodney Dangerfield

Pullback or Crash? Check Out the Chile ETF and Copper ETN

So you’re worried that the stock market’s about to cave in. You don’t know if you should sell now or wait to see what happens. You don’t know if it’s worth changing anything, since the market may merely pull back 5%-8% like it did in June/July. Still ...

From GARY GORDON, ETF Investor,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: iShares

ETFs That Get Hit the Hardest When the Dollar Jumps

Gloom-god Roubini says that flooding the world with U.S. dollars at non-existent interest rates has let speculators push assets far higher than their “fundamental value” justifies. That may be true. Then again, when have assets ever been perfectly ...

From GARY GORDON, Seeking Alpha,  27 Oct 2009

Which ETFs Are 'Suicide' for Your Portfolio?

Culturally, the Japanese place such a strong emphasis on scholastic achievement…failure is simply not an option. So it’s not a big surprise to learn that Japan has the highest suicide rate of any industrialized nation. On the other hand, how does one ...

From GARY GORDON, ETF Investor,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union

Get Exposure to Earnings Superstars with Broad-Based Tech ETFs

In fact, of the 15 companies with the most “cash” to gobble up small fries, buyback shares, invest in R&D or just plain survive the credit crisis, 5 of the companies were well-known tech giants. They included Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), Microsoft ...

From GARY GORDON, Seeking Alpha,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  NASDAQ

Dow 10,000? The Nasdaq 100 ETF Is the Superior Story

Lost in the Dow 10000 celebration was a more impressive 1-year high. Take a look at the difference between the Diamond Dow 30 (DIA) and the Nasdaq 100 proxy, QQQQ. From the bull market top to the bear’s March 09 low, both DIA and QQQQ had surrendered ...

From GARY GORDON, ETF Investor,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NASDAQ

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