Best/Worst Daily ETF Returns: BAL Jumps 3.82%

The iPath Dow Jones UBS-Cotton Total Return ETN (BAL) was the best-performing fund Friday, July 13, tagging on gains of 3.82 percent after China’s quarterly GDP announcement eased concerns surrounding demand for commodities.

China is the world’s largest consumer of many raw materials, including cotton. Friday, the country pegged its second-quarter GDP at 7.6 percent , meeting the prevailing market expectation and putting to rest concerns that the slowdown in that economy could prove worse than many anticipated.

Still, among the top-10 performers Friday, the bulk of the trading action took place in the Financial Select SPDR ETF (XLF), which rallied 2.76 percent on the day, with nearly 78 million shares trading hands.

XLF benefited from strong bank earnings reports coming from the likes of J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, which helped push the overall stock market to its first positive closing in more than a week. The Dow Jones industrial average closed 203.82 points higher, or 1.6 percent, at 12,777.09.

Friday’s price action helped put the index just above water for the week, ending the day with weekly gains of 0.04 percent.

On the flip side, the United States Metals Index Fund (USMI) bled 13.4 percent of value in light trading. The IQ South Korea Small Cap ETF (SKOR), which will be shuttered on Aug. 17 , was also among the day’s bottom performers, giving up 1.85 percent.


Top 10 1-Day Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded

Ticker

Name

1-Day Performance

1-Day Volume

AUM ($, mm)

BAL

iPath Dow Jones-UBS Cotton Total Return ETN

3.82%

21,102

31.65

VNM

Market Vectors Vietnam

3.72%

123,910

301.53

KBWB

PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio

3.21%

3,800

29.35

GREK

Global X FTSE Greece 20

3.18%

4,753

6.34

COPX

Global X Copper Miners

3.14%

19,967

26.39

IYG

iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services

3.03%

34,737

210.72

CU

First Trust ISE Global Copper

2.79%

5,687

41.38

XLF

Financial Select SPDR

2.76%

77,960,377

6,495.20

KROO

IQ Australia Small Cap

2.73%

1,761

13.08

PMNA

PowerShares MENA Frontier Countries Portfolio

2.72%

1,526

16.56


Bottom 10 1-Day Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded

Ticker

Name

1-Day Performance

1-Day Volume

AUM ($, mm)

USMI

United States Metals Index Fund

-13.39%

8,694

2.46

CVOL

C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi Volatility

-8.42%

31,186

6.05

VIXY

ProShares VIX Short-Term

-5.78%

672,102

128.58

VIIX

VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN

-5.71%

371,181

33.04

VXX

iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN

-5.60%

44,669,526

1,618.99

VXZ

iPath S'P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN

-3.40%

288,698

248.23

VIXM

ProShares VIX Mid-term

-3.21%

9,911

79.34

SKOR

IQ South Korea Small Cap

-1.85%

1,445

5.75

IRV

SPDR S'P International Materials

-1.25%

1,601

10.71

CBND

SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond

-1.14%

9,841

22.64

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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