Exchange-Traded Funds have performed exceedingly well as extreme levels of volatility and uncertainty forced investors to pursue diversified exposure in the market. Building up with the ETF frenzy, a new Cannabis ETF has hit the market as the need to provide investors with diversified exposure to the burgeoning segment continues to heat up. Pure U.S
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The Exchange Traded Fund market has been a buzz of activity in 2020 in the wake of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates to record lows. Investors have continued to shun yields in favor of ETFs that continue to provide broad exposure to a stock market that shows no signs of slowing down, clocking record
Bitcoin is one of the best performing alternative asset classes giving the stock market a race for its money. A 30% plus rally since the start of the year attests to strong demand for the flagship cryptocurrency that is increasingly arousing institutional investors’ interest. Buoyed by the digital asset strong demand, Fidelity Investment is reportedly
Investments in Exchange Traded Funds have skyrocketed in recent months as value investors shy away from individual stocks that appear expensive and overstretched in the market. With most counters near the peak, the risk of incurring significant losses is pretty high on the market reversing. ETFs appear to be offering a safer approach for gaining
Monday means we are back for another week in the markets. Seems a lot of folks are starting to take vacations, just from observations. If you’re taking a vacation, share the daily market wrap with your friends and colleagues, so you can enjoy your time off. On to the numbers, the S&P rose 0.7%, but
Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) are taking action against the Trump campaign for posting misinformation about COVID-19. Trump’s page shared part of the President’s interview with Fox whereby he indicated that children were immune to the Virus. Facebook and Twitter act on Trump’s misleading video The social media networks indicated that the information
Monday markets saw optimistic gains with the Dow Jones up 0.43%, while the Nasdaq climbed 1.67%, and the S&P 500 closed higher by 0.74%. Gold continued to charge to record highs of $1,936.80 today. The US Dollar Index was down 0.83%. The Senate GOP released their big ideas for the next phase of Coronavirus relief
A tech sell-off on Thursday afternoon sent the markets spinning and ended a four-day winning streak. The Dow Jones was down 1.3%, the S&P 500 down 1.2%, and the Nasdaq was today’s biggest loser down 2.2%. Meanwhile, the Russell 2000 inched just a touch higher rising by 0.0042%. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index closed up
As you get close to retirement age you may start becoming worried that you will not be able to afford retirement. This is the predicament that older adults are finding themselves in and thus some have to work longer or find alternative ways of ensuring they have saved enough for retirement. Most importantly, when thinking
We are in turbulent times. The markets dove low today on news of COVID-19 cases and it created a sudden fear that the good news of re-opening would be short-lived. As markets will fluctuate, in recent times, they have seen more turbulence than normal. We take a look at the reasons today: Explaining the Stock
Saving up for retirement is an accumulation of a lifetime of hard work. It is a difficult task to achieve, but it is a fantastic accomplishment once completed. Once someone has retired from their career and is relying solely on their retirement savings, it is important to ensure that those funds can sustain them for
Stocks fell on Wednesday, as investors heard from the Federal Reserve about their updated financial policy. The Dow Jones dropped by 0.69, the S&P 500 by 0.53, and the NASDAQ by 1.04. The Federal Reserve released its latest policy statement today. Interest rates are to remain unchanged at their range of 0% – 0.25%, as
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The role of a financial advisor means many different things. Advisors take on the responsibility of guiding their clients through building an asset portfolio, helping them improve their personal financial situation, and being available as a lifeline in the event that things are crashing down in their lives. Advisors are often seen as a fix-all
When you decide to invest in the stock market, you will likely start paying more attention to financial news and updates. At this point, you will start hearing about index funds. What exactly are index funds, and how do they relate to a market index? What are Index Funds An index fund is a mutual
When you decide that you want to enter the stock market and invest in securities, there are a few steps that you will need to take in order to facilitate this. First and foremost, you will need to open a brokerage account. Brokerage Accounts A brokerage account offers you access to purchase, trade, and sell
Monday’s markets continued NASDAQ’s positive streak, as it finished the day 0.78% higher. The Dow dropped by 0.45%, while the S&P 500 fell by 0.01%. This is NASDAQ’s longest positive streak since December, which lasted for 11 days in a row. AMC Entertainment saw a drastic increase, as their shares rose by 30% on Monday.
What is an IRA? An Individual Retirement Account (IRA), is an investment account that allows for certain tax benefits. An IRA will contain many different types of investments, including stocks, bonds, ETFs, and mutual funds. The purpose of an IRA is specifically to save for retirement. This means that if you try to withdraw the
Is Day Trading Worth It? When working within the stock market, there are many different approaches that can be taken. Some people prefer to play the waiting game and hang onto their shares for as long as possible. The opposite of this is known as day trading. Day traders are people who buy and sell
Setting up an Investment Portfolio When first starting at the very beginning, investing can seem like quite a daunting prospect. Stocks, bonds, dividends, options, securities, what does it all mean? When unsure of how to tackle this, the best bet is to talk to a financial advisor. They will set up an investment portfolio, which
You might call it the “ETF-ication of everything.” Mutual fund managers are launching special products that allow them to use the exchange-traded fund structure but keep their portfolios hidden. Others are exploring outright conversions of their funds to ETFs. And brokerages are becoming more comfortable with buzzy marketing, lower fees and fractional share trading. But
It’s been a rough couple of months for all investors, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.75% and S&P 500 SPX, +2.14% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.93% indexes plunged more than 30% from their all-time highs before bouncing back nicely through last week. (They sold off again Monday, but were higher midday Tuesday.) And
Investors have spent the past couple of weeks in a “sell everything” mind set. That’s turned into a windfall for money-market funds. Money flowed into those funds at a breakneck pace in the most recent week, data from Refinitiv Lipper show. It was the third straight week of record highs, each one nearly doubling the
The benefits of index funds include diversification and low cost. But the trade-off investors endure is that these funds lurch downward with the market — as they did last week. Despite Monday’s strong U.S. market rebound, some investors may not have the patience (or the stomach) to sit on their hands until the market gets
Many stock market bulls are expressing surprise that a net $88 billion was pulled out of U.S. equity funds and ETFs last year. They would have predicted that the net fund flow would have been in the opposite direction. After all, the stock market in 2019 had one of its best years in modern U.S.
The problem with most investing strategies is that they haven’t measured up well against simple indexes when comparisons have been confined to the 10-year bull market in U.S. stocks. If you look back far enough to encompass bull-and-bust cycles, the results are quite different. “If you are 70 or 65 today, during the last 20
Bloomberg News American flags fly at BlackRock Inc. headquarters in New York The brokerage fee wars are a big plus for the exchange-traded fund arm of investment company BlackRock BLK, -0.94% as more investors turn to ETFs, the company’s executives said Tuesday. BlackRock’s iShares has $1.6 trillion in ETF assets under management, and 39% of
iStockphoto Can a factor approach better help investors identify good fixed-income plays, like “fallen angel” bonds? As the bond bull market grinds on, investors increasingly see fixed income as fertile ground for factor investing. “Factors” are broad characteristics of securities, such as volatility, momentum, and quality, that can be quantified and harnessed to achieve a
How often do you wish you could go back in time and make what now appears to be an “obvious” investment in a transformational company or industry? It seems perfectly clear now that smartphones would become ubiquitous and allow Apple to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. You might say the same thing
Should you invest in any of the new breed of non-transparent ETFs that the SEC recently approved? The best advice might be to wait and see how they are received by the market. They represent such a radical departure from the traditional ETF model , it’s unclear they will even work. To appreciate just how