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It sounds like a conversation one might have with his or her irascible grandfather or Donald Trump: The United States owes China a lot of money by way of all the U.S. Treasurys China has gobbled up over the years, and one day, China is going to come calling, wanting to be paid. That day may have...

High-yield corporate bond exchange traded funds have recently endured ample criticism. Carl Icahn even went so far as to call BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager and issuer of the iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG), dangerous due to its high-...

Shares of the $8.5 billion Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX) are trading higher by more than two percent today despite news that a Chinese buyer is stepping away from talks to possibly acquire a controlling interest in African Barrick Gold. African Barrick is publicly traded unit of...

Solar ETFs are taking a step back on Monday, but it is no secret these funds have been on fire to start 2013. Even with a loss of 2.4 percent on Monday, the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE: TAN) is still higher by 17.4 percent over the past five trading days. The Market Vectors Solar ETF (NYSE: KWT)...

A fair number of ETFs tracking the technology sector are not starved for attention and a lot of that has to do with the large allocations to bellwether tech names such as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) found within those funds. However, a previously vilified tech ETF with scant Apple exposure has turned in...

For all the chatter about outflows from high-yield bond ETFs and talk of a junk bond bubble, the marquee ETFs tracking this asset class have held up well. In fact, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: HYG), the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE: JNK) and the...

Among the prominent trends in the ETF industry this year has been the realization by advisors, investors and traders that traditional cap-weighted funds are not always the best when it comes to returns. Still, most equity-based ETFs are just that: Weighted by the market values of the funds'...

As the fourth-largest producer of gold in the world, the fortunes of the South African economy are often viewed as hitched to the performance of the yellow metal itself. When it comes to ETFs, the correlations between gold and South African equities are not always as intimate as some investors...

Add the iShares Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund (NYSE: LEMB) to the list of emerging markets bond ETFs that are home to robust inflows this year. LEMB, which is just 13 months old, had about $207 million in assets under management as of October 29. That number now rests at $363.2...

Thanks to improving house and jobs data, a pair of the best-performing sector ETFs in 2012 have been those with heavy exposure to the residential real estate market. Through 10 months of trading, the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund (NYSE: ITB) and the the SPDR S&P...

Among the scores of new ETFs to debut this year has been an addition to the frontier markets fray, the iShares MSCI Frontier 100 Index Fund (NYSE: FM). That ETF launched about 11 weeks ago and since then has accumulated $14.3 million in assets under management. As the name implies, the iShares...

Investors that opt to use traditional valuation metrics (such as price-to-earnings ratio) can find plenty of compelling options to choose from among ETFs tracking global markets. Even though it is a known fact that developing nations will outpace the likes of the Eurozone, Japan and the U.S. in...

To say the unheralded iShares MSCI Israel Capped Investable Market Index Fund (NYSE: EIS) has its share of challenges is an understatement. As the lone ETF devoted to the only advanced economy in one of the most politically volatile regions of the world, EIS must endure a seemingly never-ending...

A familiar trade is working once again; that being long airline stocks and short oil. The numbers back up that assertion, as over the past month, the Guggenheim Airline ETF (NYSE: FAA), the only ETF devoted to airline stocks, is up half a percent. That may not sound like much, but a pair trade...

It has been a good run over the past year for the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (NYSE: HYG). Likewise, the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE: JNK) has run-up over the past 12-15 months. Investors that were astute enough to buy either fund in early September 2011, as...