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As the euphoria pertaining to artificial intelligence has increased in recent years, the 128-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average index replaced the shares of Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) with Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) in its index.  The shares of Santa Clara, California-based company, Nvidia Corp...

Investors often expect dividend stocks and exchange traded funds to offer some downside protection when equities falter, but as 2018 proved, it pays to be selective with dividend ETFs when looking for downside buffers. Dividend growth ETFs such as the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats...

The United States Oil Fund (NYSE: USO) hit a 52-week high last Friday and is higher by 9.7 percent over the past month. Energy stocks and related exchange traded funds are following suit, as highlighted by a gain of almost 8 percent for the Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLE) since the start of...

The iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF (NYSE: IYR), one of the largest exchange traded funds dedicated to real estate stocks and real estate investment trusts, is lower by more than 9 percent year-to-date. Some of that laggard performance can be attributed to expectations that the Federal Reserve will...

It's only one week, but the more than $11 billion in outflows from the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY), the world's largest exchange traded fund, for the weeklong period ending Feb. 13 proves the month has been unkind to equities. A staggering $20.38 billion has departed SPY this...

Chances are less than one in 10 an investor picked an equity fund that beat the S&P 500 Index in the five-year period ending August 31. According to a Bloomberg report, only 9.5 percent of actively managed large-cap domestic equity funds outperformed the index over the five-year period, which...

Corporate America is continuing its share buyback binge, but there has not been a trickle-down effect to exchange-traded funds employing repurchases as part of their weighting methodology. For example, the PowerShares Buyback Achievers Fund (ETF) (NYSE: PKW) is off a third of a percent year-to-date...

In November 2014, the S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI, two of the largest providers of benchmarks for exchange-traded funds, said real estate would become the eleventh Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) sector in August 2016. And REIT Makes 11 Although that announcement is now a year...

Every now and then, there is something to stoke the fires of indexing nerds. This year's fire starter, albeit already known, could be the addition of real estate as the eleventh member of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) group. Real estate's separation from the financial...

With just a few days remaining in 2015, it is fair and accurate to say high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds have been pinched by myriad of factors this year. Chief among those factors has been a spate of defaults by energy issuers. That issue has been a thorn in the side of the iShares...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of the most widely followed U.S. equity benchmarks. It is also one of the most maligned. Professional investors argue the S&P 500 is a more useful of U.S. equity market because, well, that index holds 500 stocks (actually a few more) compared to the Dow's...

Investors have been treated to plenty of talk about increased market volatility in recent weeks, and such talk can increase the allure of volatility exchange-traded products, such as the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures TM ETN (NYSE: VXX). Whether market participants actually gravitate to...

Despite China's efforts to make its markets more accessible to foreign investors, index provider Msci Inc (NYSE: MSCI) said this week it would hold off on including the nation's "A" shares in its Emerging Markets Index (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM)). Beijing recently...