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XLP Short Interest: Surprising Level of Bearishness

ETF short interest provides some great insights into what the market really thinks. I’m going to ignore Matt Hougan’s twitter-length rebuttal of my last post, and instead point to an excellent set of data that just appeared in my inbox. State Street ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  State Street,  iShares,  Wal-Mart

Video: Matt Hougan Discusses Commodity, Currency ETFs on CNBC

You are currently following Index Universe You are no longer following Index Universe IndexUniverse.com Editor Matt Hougan joins Bob Pisani and Tom Lydon to discuss how ETF investors should approach the commodity and currency markets. Authors with the ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CNBC

Schwab Will Be Fortunate to Have $10 Billion in ETF Assets By the End of 2010

Dave Nadig thinks Schwab (SCHW) will possibly have $100 billion in assets in its ETF products by December 2010? In a best-case scenario for Schwab, they’ll be closer to $10 billion. More realistic would be something like $5 billion. But let’s put the ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: State Street

Schwab: Big News for ETFs?

Schwab’s new ETFs solve one critical problem in the ETF market, but they won’t take over the world. At least not for a while. I’ve been thinking about the Schwab ETF launch all week, trying to figure out if it’s a game-changing event or an overblown ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wells Fargo,  Bank of America

Nouriel Roubini, One on One: More Doom and Gloom

Dr. Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and international business at the Stern School of Business at NYU and chairman of RGE Monitor, is perhaps best known for his prescient predictions of the financial market collapse in 2005. Dr. Roubini will be ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, ETF Investor,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  New York University Stern School of Business,  New York Stock Exchange

Are the Banks (And ETN Issuers) Safe Now?

The cost of insuring against the default of major financial institutions has reached its lowest level since June 2008, according to the Counterparty Risk Index from Credit Derivatives Research LLC. The chart below shows the Counterparty Risk Index (CRI) ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Citigroup,  Barclays,  Deutsche Bank,  Merrill Lynch,  Bank of America

CAF: If Money Flows into Mainland China, It's Where You'll Want to Be

Matt Hougan’s recent article on Morgan Stanley’s China A-Share closed-end fund (CAF) brings some much-overlooked discussion to the table of Chinese mainland-listed share valuations, and to what extent they are overpriced. Matt points out that as a ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Morgan Stanley

DNO: New Short Oil Fund Compounds Interest Daily

United States Commodity Funds LLC has launched a new exchange-traded fund designed to provide short exposure to the crude oil market. The United States Short Oil Fund (NYSE: DNO) aims to capture the inverse of the daily return of the front-month West ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, ETF Investor,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  New York Mercantile Exchange

The Next Big Thing: Emerging Asia

Cris Sholto Heaton’s recent article on investing in the small Asian countries outside China and India brings a welcome change to the usual run-of-the-mill emerging markets coverage. You can read the whole story here. I’ve long been a big proponent of ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, ETF Investor,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  Abhisit Vejjajiva

Third Preferred Stock ETF Hits the Market

State Street Global Advisors on Thursday launched an exchange-traded fund that invests in nonconvertible preferred stocks. The SPDR Wells Fargo Preferred Stock ETF (NYSE: PSK) comes with an annual expense ratio of 0.45 percent. The new SSgA ETF will ...

From INDEX UNIVERSE, Seeking Alpha,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  State Street,  iShares

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