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When an exchange traded fund is just over a month old, it's too soon to pass judgment on that product. Thanks to compelling fundamental factors in their respective market niches, however, some new ETFs immediately have the look of winners. That could be the case for the ProShares Online Retail...

Monday, July 16 was Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Day. Perhaps coincidentally, Monday also marked the arrival of another exchange traded fund focusing on e-commerce companies and online retailers. The ProShares Online Retail ETF (NYSE: ONLN) debuted, adding to the issuer's...

Investors betting on continued good fortune for e-commerce companies and online retailers this year are being rewarded. A pair of exchange traded funds dedicated to the online retail theme are up an average of 26 percent. While that is well ahead of the S&P Retail Select Industry Index,...

A new breed of exchange traded funds offer investors exposure to the true source of future retail sales growth, that of course being online and e-commerce sales. Among these ETFs is the ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (NYSE: CLIX), which debuted in November. While some new generation...

About 25 years after the debut of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY), the exchange traded funds universe finally has a bond fund based on the S&P 500. The ProShares S&P 500 Bond ETF (NYSE: SPXB) debuted Thursday. The latest ETF from ProShares, the largest issuer of inverse and leveraged...

Several exchange traded funds already track dividend aristocrat indexes, and that group became a little bigger Tuesday with the debut of the Cboe Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF (CBOE: KNG). The Cboe Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF is the first to be...

Credit Suisse Group AG (ADR) (NYSE: CS) took the trading community by surprise when the firm announced it will liquidate the popular Credit Suisse AG – VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN (NASDAQ: XIV) after the fund plunged more than 80 percent Monday, triggering an “...

Two existing exchange traded funds tell the tale of the retail tape this year. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSE: XRT), the largest retail ETF, is down about 7.5 percent while the newer Amplify Online Retail ETF (NASDAQ: IBUY) is up 35 percent and resides near record highs. With that dichotomy in...

Exchange-traded products have made commodities investing available to the masses, and that is great. What is not so great? The pesky K-1 tax forms that accompany those investments come tax season. A new exchange-traded fund from ProShares looks to ameliorate that problem, at least for those...

ProShares, the largest issuer of inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds, is making changes to some its ETFs ahead of the separation of real estate into its own sector at the end of August. Real Estate Separation In 2014 index providers MSCI and Standard & Poor's announced that real...

A lot of dividend exchange-traded funds are advertised as avenues to payout consistency. The ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NYSE: NOBL) backs it up by tracking a dividend aristocrats index that only holds companies that have boosted payouts for at least 25 straight years, an...

It is often said that investors are born with a bullish bias and that bias must be unlearned through experience. No medical doctors or psychologists are behind the writing of this piece, but if they were, they would probably say there is a part of the human brain that enjoys rooting for good...

Energy, the seventh-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has steadied somewhat this year after being the benchmark index's worst-performing sector in each of the previous two years. Oil's ongoing weakness is not chasing investors from oil ETFs. In fact, that continuing weakness is...

In what is shaping up to be another trying year for emerging markets equities and the relevant exchange-traded funds, investors opting to remain long developing world stocks should prize factors such as consistent dividend growth and quality. Due to a variety of factors, including rising debt loads...

In anticipation of higher U.S. interest rates, some of the largest issuers of exchange-traded funds have brought scores of interest rate hedged ETFs to market. The movement to bring these funds to market got going in earnest in 2014, and the field is now populated to the point the options number at...