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It is not etched in stone, but it often happens. That being airline stocks fall while oil prices rise and vice versa. Year-to-date, West Texas Intermediate futures, though weaker in recent months, have traded higher while the U.S. Global Jets ETF (NYSE: JETS) is down nearly 10 percent. That does...

The $4.2 billion PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 (ETF) (NYSE: PRF) debuted over a decade ago. Today, PRF is widely considered one of the forefathers of the booming smart segment of the exchange-traded funds industry. Perfecting Old School With PRF PRF follows the FTSE RAFI US 1000 Index, which...

Conventional wisdom would dictate that although emerging markets stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds are performing better this year than they have over the past couple of years, this probably is not the time to embrace Indian stocks. After all, commodities prices are rebounding, and that...

Ten-year Treasury yields slid 3.5 percent Tuesday to a close of 1.8 percent, bringing the year-to-date decline for yields on benchmark U.S. government debt to a staggering 20.7 percent. For those that think yields on Treasurys are piddly, they are correct; however, significantly lower yields can be...

One of the earliest and most frequent criticism of alternatively-weighted exchange-traded funds is that when these funds outperform, it is often due to the value or small stocks factors or both. That is a charge frequently aimed at the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 (ETF) (NYSE: PRF), one of the...

During the go-go days of the Federal Reserve's various versions of quantitative easing, a slew of high-yield sector and asset classes became investor favorites. That includes multi-asset exchange-traded funds, such as the First Trust Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund (First Trust...

Thanks to tumbling oil prices, once beloved master limited partnerships (MLPs) and the exchange-traded products that hold those securities have been among the most beaten up asset classes. Over the past six months, seven of the 20 worst performing non-leveraged exchange traded products have been...

Last year, just 16 of the 30 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted positive annual gains. Of those 16, a mere nine posted double-digit gains and of those nine, just five closed the year higher by 20 percent or more. Just one member of that quintet hailed from the technology space, the...

With year-to-date losses of just under 30 percent, the ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and the ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL) are easily the worst performers among the major precious metals exchange-traded funds. The SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD) is down just 10.6...

Things are getting worse for oil and oil-related exchange-traded products. As of Friday's afternoon trading session, nearly 60 exchange-traded products have hit all-time lows. Of that group, 27 are commodities products, and that does not include a number of currency, fixed income and international...

The Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (NYSE: RSX), the oldest and largest Russia exchange-traded fund listed in New York, deserves some credit. Not only has RSX been the best-performing member of the quartet comprised of the largest single-country BRIC ETFs this year, but the fund has surged 8.2...

As has been frequently noted, this has been another trying year for the iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWZ). Quantifying the largest Brazil exchange-traded fund's woes is not difficult. Entering Tuesday, EWZ was sporting a 35.4 percent year-to-date loss. That is more than quadruple the...

Fourteen of the 30 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are down year-to-date and 11 of those 14 are down at least 5 percent. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, is a member of that dubious group of 11. Given its heft (the company...

Few equity-based energy sector exchange-traded funds have been plagued by falling oil prices on par with oil services funds. Entering Wednesday, the United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO) was saddled with a year-to-date loss of 26.7 percent, which triggered an average loss of just over 20...

On a global basis last year, investors pumped a record $81.9 billion into fixed-income exchange-traded funds. Despite all the talk about the Federal Reserve possibility raising interest rates, investors' enthusiasm for bond ETFs has not waned in 2015, as such funds have attracted over $44...