Currency

WisdomTree will take nine of its most popular US listed funds across the border to list on Mexican stock exchanges. The move will allow the fund to tap into a growing investment class in Mexico and bring variety to a limited marketplace. WisdomTree’s move comes six years after iShares first moved its funds south of [...]

Despite being relatively uncomplicated when left as mere index funds, IRS rules for other exchange-traded funds have become taxing to self-filers. Much of the trouble extends from just two types of ETFs: commodity and futures-based funds. An analyst from Wells Fargo told the Wall Street Journal that commodity ETFs can be taxed in six different [...]

Although currency funds have yet to capture a large portion of the exchange-traded fund market, other opportunities exist for investors in the ETF landscape. One such opportunity, iShares MSCI Hong Kong (EWH: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), a stock fund, is expected to rise with China’s currency. Analysts expect that Chinese stocks catering to consumer [...]

Bond king PIMCO has filed to create six new funds, one of which will be actively-managed. The newest offerings tap into PIMCO’s already existing line of bond ETFs, which are a current investor favorite. The new funds are as follows: 1. PIMCO 0-3 Year Banking Sector Corporate Bond Index Fund 2. PIMCO 1-5 Year High [...]

Troubles in Greece have only incited the popularity of exchange-traded commodities in the wake of what could be the largest bankruptcy since the credit crunch began. Often suffering from limited liquidity, currency funds are now on the up and up. The CurrencyShares Euro Trust (FXE: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), which has an average volume [...]

As the world economy weakens through nearly two years of recession, China’s stimulus driven economy is exploding in every direction. A growing export economy has exerted a tremendous impact on the boom, which has covered all sectors of the Chinese economy, including real estate. Chinese exports rose 17.7% year over year against 55.9% growth in [...]

WisdomTree has filed with the SEC to create two new funds that track the change of the American dollar against a basket of world currencies. The new funds will compete with PowerShares US DB Dollar ETF (UUP: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), which has attracted more than $3 billion from investors. The WisdomTree Rising Dollar [...]

To welcome the New Year, WisdomTree launched the WisdomTree International Hedged Equity ETF (HEDJ: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) on December 31. The fund will be the first ETF to hedge its own positions against changes in international exchange rates. Investors have long been plagued with the ties to currency movements, as international stocks usually [...]

Investors who were bearish on the dollar during recession are flocking back into the USD for safety. The PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), which tracks twice the daily return of the US Dollar, will have to issue 240 million new shares just to keep up with the [...]

Recent Morningstar data finds that investors are leaving the sidelines and buying into riskier instruments. Exchange-traded funds enjoyed a healthy $14 billion in inflows in November alone. Exchange-traded funds have brought in $77.8 billion year-to-date, with nine straight months of net inflows. Much of the $14 billion in November inflows went to emerging-market and international [...]