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Shutterstock The interest rate on the 10-year Treasury is trending higher every month that goes by. The price of oil is trending higher every month as well. This has been the case for a while now and I’m surprised that, so far, the stock market mostly continues on as if little of that mattered. I’m

Shutterstock Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and computed the weighted average implied analyst target price for the ETF itself.  For the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF, we

Shutterstock Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and computed the weighted average implied analyst target price for the ETF itself.  For the iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF, we found

Shutterstock Wall Street is working on a new platform which will ease the trading, storing and spending digital assets. That’s bullish for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It will help them gain acceptance among investors, merchants and consumers. Last week, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced plans to form a new company, Bakkt, with the purpose to create

Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds) took in $70.4 billion of net new money for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, March 11. Money market funds (+$87.6 billion) were responsible for all of the week’s net inflows as investors parked a significant amount of money on the sidelines, driven by

Editors’ Note: This is the transcript version of the podcast we published last week. We hope you find it useful. Sign up for Let’s Talk ETFs on the podcast platform of your choice to make sure you don’t miss an episode: Jonathan Liss [JL]: For reference purposes, this podcast is being recorded on the morning

The Mid Cap Blend style ranks fifth out of the 12 fund styles as detailed in our Q1’20 Style Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter, the Mid Cap Blend style ranked sixth. It gets our Neutral rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of 19 ETFs and 364 mutual funds

For the first time in awhile, we have buying opportunities broadly in the closed-end fund space. It has been 14 months since the swoon of late 2018 when an interest rate-fueled selloff sent the equities into a bear market. It also caused CEF discounts to widen out significantly as investors feared higher rates – both

Thesis: WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Dividend ETF (DFJ) is a great way to take advantage of the small cap dividend growth trend taking place in Japan; Dividend growth investing paired with a net net investing strategy may be the most profitable investment strategy in Japan. (source) When I tell other investors that you need to invest

The DoubleLine Income Solutions Fund (NYSE:DSL) with $2.0 billion in net assets under management is a closed-end fund that invests in fixed-income securities with an objective of high income and capital appreciation. The fund utilizes leverage to achieve a yield of 8.8%, which is paid through a monthly distribution. While the fund technically has a

Photo Source: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid. The Charging Bull statue, also known as the Wall St. Bull, is seen in the financial district of New York City, U.S. In 2019, U.S. fund investors continued to prefer passively managed funds over actively managed funds. Long-term actively managed funds (excluding money market funds) witnessed net outflows of $83.7 billion

ETF Overview iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) owns a portfolio of large-cap semiconductor stocks. The fund seeks to track the investment results of the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index. Stocks in SOXX’s portfolio should continue to enjoy favorable industry fundamental as the semiconductor industry is set to grow at a rate of 7.67% annually through 2024.

Investment thesis Welcome to Orchid’s Silver weekly report, in which we wish to deliver my regular thoughts on the silver market through the Aberdeen Standard Physical Silver Shares ETF (NYSEARCA:SIVR). SIVR has rebounded strongly by roughly 9% since December 2019, comforting our bullish view on silver. Nevertheless, our near-term bullish narrative has slightly changed because