Investors plowed $928.5 million into the SPDR S'P 500 ETF (SPY - News), making it No. 1 on IndexUniverse’s “Top 10 Creations” list. Stocks were down on new lackluster corporate earnings reports.
Net flows were $2.36 billion; however, due to falling markets, total assets under management stayed flat at about $1.191 trillion, virtually unchanged from the $1.191 on Tuesday, April 17.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 82.79 points, or 0.6 percent, to close at 13,032.75. Stocks were down on disappointing earnings reports from IBM and Intel as well as concerns about recent partisan strife in Washington over taxes. The S'P 500 dropped 5.64 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 1,385.14.
The No. 2 fund on the creations list was the SPDR S'P Retail ETF (XRT - News), which brought in $171.5 million in inflows. The No. 3 fund on the list was the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLI - News), which had $129.1 million in inflows.
U.S.-focused equity ETFs had inflows of $2.08 billion. U.S.-focused fixed-income ETFs had inflows of $322.3 million.
Redemptions
Investors pulled $128.6 million from the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT - News), making it the No. 1 fund on IndexUniverse’s “Top 10 Redemptions” list.
The No. 2 fund on the redemptions list was the iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (IWM - News), which had $104.2 million in outflows. The No. 3 fund on the list was the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares (TNA - News), which had $75.8 million in outflows.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| SPY | SPDR S'P 500 | 928.49 | 100,703.31 | 1% |
| XRT | SPDR S'P Retail | 171.47 | 884.92 | 24% |
| XLI | Industrial Select SPDR | 129.08 | 3,414.35 | 4% |
| HYG | iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond | 125.54 | 14,481.71 | 1% |
| MDY | SPDR S'P MidCap 400 | 115.64 | 9,620.83 | 1% |
| LQD | iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond | 115.50 | 20,224.05 | 1% |
| XLE | Energy Select SPDR | 107.32 | 7,548.54 | 1% |
| XLB | Materials Select SPDR | 98.93 | 2,279.74 | 5% |
| XLF | Financial Select SPDR | 92.75 | 7,054.87 | 1% |
| VOO | Vanguard S'P 500 | 76.07 | 3,923.21 | 2% |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| TLT | iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond | -128.62 | 2,888.17 | -4% |
| IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | -104.25 | 14,698.83 | -1% |
| TNA | Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3x | -75.83 | 789.19 | -9% |
| XME | SPDR S'P Metals and Mining | -72.63 | 706.93 | -9% |
| USO | United States Oil | -54.66 | 1,260.99 | -4% |
| SLV | iShares Silver Trust | -46.04 | 9,745.61 | -0% |
| FAS | Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x | -45.36 | 1,568.29 | -3% |
| VGK | Vanguard European | -39.92 | 2,539.92 | -2% |
| FXI | iShares FTSE China 25 | -33.81 | 6,114.52 | -1% |
| RSP | Guggenheim S'P Equal Weight | -28.00 | 3,001.65 | -1% |
ETF Daily Flows By Asset Class
| Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
| U.S. Equity | 2,082.08 | 540,305.05 | 0.39% |
| International Equity | 33.92 | 285,461.97 | 0.01% |
| U.S. Fixed Income | 322.30 | 195,849.31 | 0.16% |
| International Fixed Income | 40.34 | 15,382.46 | 0.26% |
| Commodities | -87.17 | 112,207.44 | -0.08% |
| Currency | - | 3,286.26 | 0.00% |
| Leveraged | -106.54 | 13,377.78 | -0.80% |
| Inverse | 17.99 | 19,931.65 | 0.09% |
| Asset Allocation | 0.86 | 1,082.30 | 0.08% |
| Alternatives | 59.49 | 4,071.05 | 1.46% |
| Total: | 2,363.28 | 1,190,955.27 | 0.20% |
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds '$50 mm AUM
| Ticker | Name | Average Volume (30 Day) |
1-Day Volume | % of Average |
| EUSA | iShares MSCI USA | 6,499 | 157,100 | 2417% |
| GEX | Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy | 19,042 | 186,401 | 979% |
| BWZ | SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term International Treasury Bond | 28,611 | 132,159 | 462% |
| JKK | iShares Morningstar Small Growth | 6,414 | 29,528 | 460% |
| PXQ | PowerShares Dynamic Networking Portfolio | 35,427 | 162,019 | 457% |
| ENZL | iShares MSCI New Zealand Investable Market | 42,078 | 190,910 | 454% |
| VPL | Vanguard Pacific | 195,205 | 883,049 | 452% |
| MBB | iShares Barclays MBS Bond | 394,694 | 1,679,106 | 425% |
| COW | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Livestock Total Return ETN | 42,339 | 170,189 | 402% |
| PLW | PowerShares 1-30 Laddered Treasury | 26,950 | 105,591 | 392% |
Top 10 1-Day Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker | Name | 1-Day Performance | 1-Day Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
| CMF | iShares S'P California AMT-Free Municipal Bond | 4.38% | 26,298 | 214.00 |
| CTNN | iPath Pure Beta Cotton ETN | 4.02% | 1,300 | 1.74 |
| CHIE | Global X China Energy | 2.33% | 2,600 | 5.46 |
| EIRL | iShares MSCI Ireland Capped Investable Market | 2.15% | 5,086 | 7.76 |
| FKU | First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX | 2.02% | 1,377 | 4.62 |
| RRF | WisdomTree Global Real Return | 1.88% | 2,841 | 4.86 |
| IDLV | PowerShares S'P International Developed Low Volatility | 1.81% | 2,037 | 2.66 |
| CVOL | C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi Volatility | 1.70% | 5,191 | 8.96 |
| BAL | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Cotton Total Return ETN | 1.62% | 50,309 | 36.39 |
| VIXY | ProShares VIX Short-Term | 1.60% | 405,151 | 143.74 |
Bottom 10 1-Day Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker | Name | 1-Day Performance | 1-Day Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
| ARGT | Global X FTSE Argentina 20 | -4.15% | 11,600 | 3.24 |
| EWP | iShares MSCI Spain | -3.40% | 671,031 | 96.60 |
| TDX | db-X In-Target Date | -3.35% | 1,670 | 10.55 |
| EWI | iShares MSCI Italy | -3.06% | 1,230,499 | 148.55 |
| QCLN | First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy | -2.63% | 3,706 | 18.76 |
| JJT | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Tin Total Return ETN | -2.61% | 5,705 | 66.39 |
| KWT | Market Vectors Solar Energy | -2.55% | 29,576 | 12.83 |
| GAZ | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Total Return ETN | -2.50% | 104,435 | 28.23 |
| RZV | Guggenheim S'P SmallCap 600 Pure Value | -2.43% | 3,145 | 76.26 |
| SGG | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Total Return ETN | -2.42% | 16,043 | 30.38 |
Disclaimer:All data as of 6 a.m. Eastern time the date the article is published. Data is believed to be accurate; however, transient market data is often subject to subsequent revision and correction by the exchanges.
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