Invesco PowerShares

While actively managed exchange-traded funds are newborns to Wall Street, analysts hope that ETFs backed by the industry’s powerhouses can draw from mutual fund investors. Average investors, who are the predominant population of mutual fund depositors, have been slow to jump aboard actively managed exchange-traded funds. The first actively managed ETF from Barclays was unable [...]

Investors’ appetite for commodities continues to grow as a hedge against government action to repair the ailing economy. Some investors are bracing for an inflation-led recovery by diversifying with the Powershares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund ETF (DBC: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News). Reuters reports that after rising to nearly $21 per share, DBC options [...]

Stocks ended the first quarter on a high note, with March recording the best rally in the US markets since 2003′s tech bubble end. Investors remain cautiously optimistic, with Mike Ryan from UBS saying, “In March, it wasn’t that things got materially better, they just got less worse.” All major market ETFs, including DIAMONDS Trust [...]

The wind power industry is set to balloon 143% in the next six years, with the amount of electricity to be produced by wind to grow from 121,000 megawatts in 2008 to 294,000 in 2015. However, the tremendous growth will not be derived through personal wind power installations, but in well placed wind power ETFs. [...]

After a tornado of selling in 2008, agriculture ETFs are growing their way back to the top. With the major indices facing bear market declines in 2009 alone, agriculture ETFs are proving to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Higher commodity prices from metals to foods in 2007 and early 2008 helped [...]

Copper reached a new three-month high on optimism that China’s new stimulus package and large investments in commodities through its Sovereign Wealth Fund are indicative of a future increase in demand for the metal. The PowerShares DB Base Metals ETF (DBB: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) surged more than 8% on higher base metal prices, [...]

The FED released new information regarding their up-and-coming Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, prompting the dollar to weaken. As reported by Forbes, the new program will buy consumer related debt, including credit cards, car loans, student loans, and even some small business debt. The government’s goal is to free up the credit markets for the [...]

OPEC’s classic strategy of cutting production to boost oil prices may no longer translate into crude profits in the short term. While OPEC fulfilled its recent promise to cut daily production by more than four million barrels, as reported by the Associated Press, the subsequent rally in oil prices could not be sustained. Oil enjoyed [...]

Investors are rethinking President Obama’s “yes we can” philosophy when it comes to clean energy technology.   The mandates from Obama for cleaner energy have yet to give investors confidence in an industry that relies mostly on government subsidies.  Even though Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Barack Obama and Canada’s Prime Minister Stepher Harper have pledged [...]

In the most recent three-month period, thirteen ETFs managed to exceed 30% growth. Of the most successful funds during this time period, the overriding theme was the strong performance of precious metal ETFs. Glenn Hall of TheStreet.com provides a table of the top ETFs, which unveils Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX: Quote, Profile, Advanced [...]