Exchange Traded Funds

Gold Demand Stands At 800.3 Metric Tons In Q3: WGC

By By Moming Zhou| MarketWatch Pulse| Markets

… quarter in 2008 in response to the financial crisis, the WGC, an gold mining industry group, said. Demand for gold exchange - traded funds dipped quarter on quarter, but jewelry, industrial and retail investment demand rose. Copyright © 2009 MarketWatch …

Story|11/19/2009

Funds Bet Build America Bond Deal Gets Extended

By By Deborah Levine| MarketWatch| Markets

… Levine MarketWatch NEW YORK -- Eaton Vance Corp. and Invesco Ltd. launched on Tuesday the first-ever mutual fund and exchange - traded fund focusing on Build America Bonds, judging investors and lawmakers will keep showing interest in these new, taxable municipal …

Story|11/17/2009

PowerShares Launches ETF For Build America Bonds

By By Deborah Levine| MarketWatch Pulse| Markets

… By Deborah Levine MarketWatch Pulse NEW YORK -- Invesco Ltd.'s PowerShares unit launched a new taxable exchange - traded fund on Tuesday, to help investors buy in Build America Bonds, a federally-subsidized form of taxable municipal debt …

Story|11/17/2009

Paulson Purchases Help Lift Citi, Financials

By By John Spence| MarketWatch Pulse| Markets

… shares during the third quarter. Citi shares were up more than 4% at last check Monday while the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund , an exchange - traded fund tracking financial stocks, rose about 1%. Copyright © 2009 MarketWatch, Inc.

Story|11/16/2009

Gold Hits Record on Weak Dollar, Technical Momentum

Reuters| Markets

… lacklustre, however, with the world's largest gold exchange - traded fund , the SPDR Gold Trust, saying its holdings fell 0.61 ..... against $17.41. The world's largest silver-backed exchange - traded fund , the iShares Silver Trust, said its bullion holdings …

Story|11/16/2009

Gold Prices Soften as Dollar Recovers

Reuters| Markets

… weak as high prices put off buyers, and interest in exchange - traded funds static. "Underlying demand needs to play a bit of catch ..... into the market, with holdings of the world's largest exchange - traded fund , the SPDR Gold Trust in New York, rising just over …

Story|11/10/2009

Gold Hits Record Above $1,100 an Ounce as Dollar Slides

Reuters| Markets

… is not the only driver," said Michael Blumenroth, a trader at Deutsche Bank. The world's largest bullion-backed exchange - traded fund , New York's SPDR Gold Trust, said its holdings were unchanged on Friday from the previous session. ETF Securities …

Story|11/09/2009

LSE: Equity Trades Up 8% In October

By Steve Goldstein| MarketWatch Pulse| Markets

… London Stock Exchange Group said equity trades rose 8% in October to 19.7 million trades, helped by strong growth in exchange - traded funds , fixed income and derivatives. U.K. cash equities value was up 7% while value of Italian equity trades was flat …

Story|11/09/2009

The Week's Top 10 Videos On MarketWatch

By MarketWatch| MarketWatch| Other Stories

… ETFs aren't created equally Timothy Clift, chief investment officer of FundQuest, explains how similar-looking exchange - traded funds can be surprisingly different in this interview with Dow Jones Newswires' Simon Constable. Watch Video Report. Yale …

Story|11/07/2009

This Gold Stock Is a Flying Turkey

By Chuck Jaffe| MarketWatch| Markets

… economy. They can buy the big companies that were name-dropped in the email ad, for example, or can use gold funds or exchange - traded funds , rather than focusing in on one small, high-risk operation. Even if they want to go for the big take-off, Berol …

Story|11/06/2009