Chris Kimble

Yields on 10-year Treasurys are tumbling this year, but over the five trading sessions concluding Monday, that same yield is higher by nearly 7.7 percent. Five days does not undo more than six months of good work by fixed income exchange-traded funds, one of this year's hottest asset classes...

To put it delicately, the fundamental outlook on Brazilian equities has been murky at best this year. Brazil's benchmark index, the Ibovespa, has been one of the worst-performing major global benchmarks this year as a plunging real, slack commodities demand and anti-government protests have...

The Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), the largest and most heavily traded ETF tracking the financial services sector, closed down almost 0.6 percent on Tuesday as traders mulled what could happen next in Cyprus. As eurozone fears have risen in the past few days, XLF has lost 0.82 percent...

By any standard the, iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (NYSE: EFA) is big. With almost $41.8 billion in assets under management, the ETF is one of the biggest ETFs by that metric of any stripe. EFA is also heavily traded with average daily volume north of 17.4 million shares over the last three months...

Over the past year, stocks viewed as plays on a residential real estate resurgence, have, well, been resurgent. So have the ETFs these stocks call home. In that time, the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund (NYSE: ITB) has been one of the top-performing ETFs of any stripe, surging...