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When You Should And Should Not Use Leveraged ETFs
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 10:52am | 679Like any financial instrument, leveraged ETFs only work for you if you use them appropriately. For example, if you use a buy-and-hold strategy for all the assets in your portfolio, leveraged ETFs might not be for you. But if you take a more active approach over your portfolio, they can be a good...
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How Do We Quantify An Emerging Market?
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:03pm | 676As one of Wall Street’s favorite buzzwords, the term “emerging market” gets thrown around quite a bit. Broadly defined, an emerging market is a country whose business and financial infrastructure is somewhere between being underdeveloped (like, say, Kenya) and highly complex (like...
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A New ETF Is Adding Leverage To The Bond Market
Monday, August 28, 2017 - 1:10pm | 621With U.S. interest rates still low by historical standards and several other marquee developed markets sporting negative sovereign debt yields, fixed income investors are turning to other areas to find yield. The resurgence in emerging markets assets has led some bond investors to higher-yielding...
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These ETFs Have Survived The Rough Commodities Trade
Friday, August 25, 2017 - 12:11pm | 635A weaker dollar and some precious metals has has the relevant exchange traded funds (ETFs) performing admirably this year. The major physically-backed gold ETFs are sporting double digit year-to-date gains while the comparable palladium fund is setting a torrid pace. The major physically-...
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Playing The Emerging Markets Trade With Leveraged ETFs
Thursday, August 24, 2017 - 10:51am | 710The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is up more than 25 percent year-to-date, putting the widely-followed gauge of developing world equities on pace for its best annual performance since 2012. Investors are responding, making emerging markets exchange traded funds (ETFs) some of this year's top...
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The Newest China ETF Has Been On Fire
Thursday, August 24, 2017 - 10:35am | 624Emerging markets exchange traded funds are performing well this year, easily topping their US-focused counterparts along the way. Within the realm of emerging markets funds, the ETFs that are truly impressing usually share one trait in common: large exposure to Chinese Internet stocks. There...
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How To Trade News Headlines With Leveraged ETFs
Monday, August 21, 2017 - 11:00am | 1470Because of their magnified exposure and use as a short-term vehicle, leveraged ETFs can be a popular trade around the release of relevant market-moving news, such as the release of economic data points. Using a 2-or-3x leveraged ETF trading strategy can prove an effective means of generating quick...
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Direxion to up Leverage For 10 ETFs
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 3:34pm | 267Despite all the controversy and scrutiny surrounding leveraged ETFs, Direxion, the second-largest U.S. issuer of leveraged ETFs behind ProShares, will up the leverage on 10 of its ETFs. Those 10 ETFs will go from double-leveraged to triple-leveraged next week. The affected group includes various...
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Direxion Rolls Out Five New ETFs Today
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 3:00am | 251Direxion, the eleventh-largest U.S. ETF issuer, will bolster its already strong lineup of inverse and leveraged ETFs with the introduction of four first-to-market sector funds and one inverse total market ETF today. For triple-leveraged plays on the materials sector, Direxion will roll-out the...