The dangerous pattern in ETFs exploding in curiosity as world buyers clamor for extra methods to play tech

2024 was a file yr for ETF inflows amid the rising “retailization” of buying and selling. Whereas the vast majority of inflows proceed to enter plain vanilla index funds, there’s an rising “energetic” retail part that desires to commerce unstable tech shares regardless of the charges and dangers. Retail merchants worldwide are turning to ETFs … Read more

Trillions depend upon who’s in and who’s out of up to date S&P 500 Nasdaq-100

Merchants work on the New York Inventory Alternate on Dec. 17, 2024. NYSE The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 indexes get new members added and outdated ones kicked out on Friday in a quarterly rebalancing largely based mostly on firms’ adjusted market capitalization.  Years in the past, these index reconstitutions had little or no affect … Read more

Entire trading ecosystem built around Nvidia poised to be tested again

Nvidia reports earnings after the market closes Wednesday. With the possible exception of Tesla , no other stock generates the kind of short-term trading interest Nvidia does. There’s an entire trading ecosystem built around Nvidia now. It is, for example, one of the most actively traded single-stock options in the market. Aside from significant options activity, … Read more

ETF conference draws 2,000 managers and advisors to air latest trends

About 2,000 asset managers and investment advisors are here at the Exchange ETF conference in Las Vegas.   A small ETF crowd arrived Saturday night to see Dead & Co. at the Sphere, who put on an amazing light show on top of an amazing music show. (What did you expect from the Dead?) Musical entertainment … Read more

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: PENN, HOOD, LEVI

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Penn Entertainment — The gaming stock dropped more than 5% following the release of weak regional gaming revenue data. On Friday, Iowa and Indiana both reported year-over-year declines in statewide gaming revenues. For Penn Entertainment revenues specifically, Iowa saw a 14% slide compared to last year, … Read more