European officials have been kicking the can down the road for years.

The alarmist talk about physically backed copper ETFs is much ado about nothing, John Hyland says. The JP Morgan XF Physical Copper Trust—a fund that is currently in registration at the Securiti...

John Hyland’s firm decides it’s time for its copper ETF to compete on price.United States Commodity Funds, the firm behind the $1.2 billion Unites States Oil Fund , is cutting th...

Trading losses at J.P.

Fixed-income funds turned sticky in the past week, as the eurozone's debt crisis took a turn for the worse.Investors poured more than $1.4 billion into fixed income exchange-traded funds in the pas...

DBEF was the top-performing ETF on Thursday, May 24 as markets looked past the eurozone mess for a day and moved higher.The db-X MSCI EAFE Currency Hedged Equity ETF was the top-pe...

Gold-miner ETFs were the top performers in the past week, while the troubled ETN 'GAZ' ended up being the worst.Gold-linked equities exchange-traded funds were among the best-performing ETFs in the...

SPY added $1.55 billion in assets on Thursday, May 24, as net inflows and rising stocks lifted total U.S.-listed ETF assets to $1.135 trillion.Investors plowed $1.55 billion into the SPDR S'P 5...

AdvisorShares rolls out green multi-asset-class ETF with charitable Cousteau tie-in.AdvisorShares, the Bethesda, Md.-based fund provider known for its active ETFs, today launched a broad ETF—in p...

Gold miner funds bounced back on Wednesday, May 23, as the markets mostly took a breather from recent selling.ETFs focused on gold miners were among yesterday’s top-performing ETFs—a day when S...

Investors put $135.3 million back into GLD on Wednesday, May 23, as total ETF assets dip to about $1.131 trillion.Investors put $135.3 million back into GLD on Wednesday, May 23, as total ETF asset...

AdvisorShares plans to roll its poor-performing ETF, DENT, into a better-performing strategy called MATH.AdvisorShares, the Bethesda, Md.-based fund provider known for its actively managed ETFs, pl...

Gold, despite its recent rebound, has gotten clobbered over the past three months.Many people are calling for the end of the secular gold bull market that started at the beginning of the last decad...

The dividend-ETF bonanza takes a leveraged turn with two new UBS ETNs.UBS, the Swiss-based bank known for its private banking unit, today launched two leveraged dividend-focused ETNs, the latest to...

Broad-based, cap-weighted ETFs were the way to play emerging markets over the past decade.

Investors dumped $891 million of GLD on Tuesday, May 22, as total U.S.-listed ETF assets edged down to below $1.137 trillion.Investors pulled $891 million from the SPDR Gold Shares ,...

CRUD fell 6.89 percent on Tuesday, May 22, the leading edge of a broad decline in commodities prices.The Teucrium WTI Crude Oil Fund was the worst-performing ETF yesterday, losing 6...

Bill Gross adds another  $1 billion to his smile, as BOND crosses the $ 1 billion threshold.The Pimco Total Return ETF , the exchange-traded-fund version of Bill Gross’ flagship ...

With the equity market plunging this month and interest rates so low, it’s no wonder investors are piling into dividend ETFs to supplement their incomes.However, it would be a mistake to assume a...

CRUD was the best-performing ETF on Monday, May 21, boosted by policymakers’ search for ways to support the global economy.

SPY bled $1.23 billion on Monday, May 21, as rising stocks offset net inflows and lifted total U.S.-listed ETF assets to more than $1.137 trillion.Net outflows were $2.25 billion; however, the mark...

Homebuilder ETFs have outperformed the broad market by double digits year-to-date, which merits a closer look.Some of last week’s headlines highlight the reasons: rising confidence in the space a...

New iShares ETF Takes aim at relatively untapped Latin American bond space.iShares, the world’s biggest exchange-traded fund firm, filed regulatory paperwork to bring to market a dollar-denominat...

First Trust plans broad futures ETF, though it doesn’t lay out strategies for dealing with contango.First Trust, the Wheaton, Ill.-based fund provider known for niche strategies, filed paperwork ...

iPath's GAZ dropped 10 percent on Friday, May 18, on the same day Barclays issued a warning on the unusually high premium on the ETN.The iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: ...

Investors pulled $235 million out of JNK on Friday, May 18, as falling stocks pulled total U.S.-listed ETF assets down to less than $1.128 trillion.Investors pulled $235.0 million from the SPDR Bar...

It's time to look closely at investment exposure involving the eurozone and the beleagured euro.The other day I saw a great tweet that summed up the eurozone crisis in one quip: 'The euro is dead.

Facebook’s IPO is the news of the day.

XLF bled $246.4 million on Thursday, May 17, as falling stocks tugged total U.S.-listed ETF assets down to less than $1.131 trillion.Investors yesterday pulled $246.4 million out of the Financial S...

GREK tumbled 18.57 percent in the week ended May 17, as the current structure of the eurozone teeters on the brink.The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF was last week’s worst-performin...

Investors bailed out of equities in the week ended May 17, as Europe's crisis heads toward some unknown climax.Investors yanked more than $1.25 billion out of exchange-traded funds in the past week...

KBWI was the worst-performing ETP on Thursday, May 17, as the Dow plunges again on rumors of a bank run in Spain.The PowerShares KBW Insurance lost 6.74 percent yesterday, making i...

My colleague Devin Riley recently lamented the lack of focused global real estate ETFs.

Direxion trims leverage on five of its equities ETFs that seek to manage volatility. Direxion, the Newton, Mass.-based firm known for its leveraged and inverse funds, filed regulatory paperwork th...

Investors yanked $1.58 billion out of SPY on Wednesday, May 16, as total U.S.-listed ETF assets fell to less than $1.141 trillion.Investors pulled $1.58 billion from the SPDR S'P 500 ETF (NYSEA...

UBS sent out a press release recently extolling the virtues of its ETN that’s designed to profit from contango in natural gas markets.

Gold briefly fell out of the money this year, but will it fall much more? Year-to-date gold prices have dropped enough this week to almost be in...

GLDX and other precious metals ETFs were among the worst-performing ETFs on Tuesday, May 15, as anxiety mounted over Greece's future in the eurozone.The Global X Gold Explorers ETF ...

Investors pulled $502 million out of VWO on Tuesday, May 15, as total U.S.-listed ETF assets fell to $1.150 trillion.Investors yanked $502 million from the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEA...

California’s massive deficit problem may have caught politicians by surprise, but ETF investors needn’t be caught so flat-footed.For municipal bondholders, California’s “shocking” $16 bil...

The popularity of ETFs will soon go parabolic, and that will spell the end of the mutual fund industry as we know it, the top-rated advisor says. Ric Edelman, a marquee name among U.S.

Investors pulled $764.4 million from SPY on Monday, May 14, as total U.S.-listed ETF assets fell to less than $1.156 trillion.Investors yanked $764.4 million from the SPDR S'P 500 ETF (NYSEArca...

SLPV and GREK were the worst-performing ETFs on Monday, May 14, as investor nervousness about the eurozone grows.The iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners was No.

 Barclays Plc, the U.K.-based bank with operations around the world, dropped the “Capital” from its previous corporate brand “Barclays Capital” in a broad streamlining move that most cons...

XRT gathered $170.9 million on Friday, May 11, as total U.S.-listed ETF assets fell to $1.168 trillion.Investors put $170.9 million into the SPDR S'P Retail ETF on Friday, May 1...

EGShares' FGEM lost 5.15 percent on Friday, May 11, as the broader market fell on eurozone concern.The EGShares Financials GEMS , a fund that invests in large emerging market compan...

The quest for yield has inspired three new multi-asset income funds in as many weeks.That roughly doubles the number of ETF offerings in the multi-asset income space.The driving idea is simple: If ...

 Van Eck looks like it’s moving further into self-indexing, with the launch of four new indexes.Van Eck’s Germany-based indexing unit launched four new indexes today that target territory alre...