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First Trust has won SEC approval for a new ETF that will provide investors with the ability to buy shares in smaller, safer community banks. The new fund will track the NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index, which invests only in small and medium sized banks that presently trade on the NASDAQ marketplace. This banking index [...]

Exchange-traded funds offer investors plenty of flexibility in how they manage their funds. However, with proper option trading strategies, investors can further reap the benefits of their exchange-traded fund portfolios. NASDAQ.com highlights a few ETF option strategies that may be used by investors to rev up their returns. One popular and easy to use strategy [...]

OOK Advisors filed with the SEC in January 2009 to provide investors with a new exchange-traded fund that invests only in companies based in Texas. The new fund will be named simply Texas Exchange-Traded Fund (TXF: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), and it shall trade on the NYSE Arca exchange. EarthTimes.org reports that the Texas [...]

The Halter USX China Index (HXC) enjoyed outperforming the Dow and NASDAQ in the first quarter of 2009, as it experienced returns of only -1.18%. To position itself even better for the future, the fund will be releasing new changes to the fund, including the liquidation of holdings to make room for additional well-positioned Chinese [...]

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 very first options on actively-managed ETFs were released today, as WisdomTree and the NASDAQ OMX Group have reached an agreement to allow WisdomTree’s actively managed currency funds to start listing options on the exchange. WisdomTree’s funds will be the first actively managed funds to give investors access to options, opening the door for option [...]

The American Stock Exchange closed its doors on Friday after being purchased by NYSE Euronext in 2008, according to Barron’s. The exchange will be transferred to the new Arca system, built to bring the NYSE up to par with NASDAQ electronic trading. The American Stock Exchange has been the little brother to the NYSE for [...]

The NASDAQ 100 index will soon make its way to China via a new exchange-traded fund. The NASDAQ OMX Group and Guotai Asset Management of Shanghai will work together to provide a NASDAQ 100 based exchange-traded fund in China, as reported by MSNBC. The exchange-traded fund will need to be approved by the Qualified Domestic [...]

The ETF trading volume on the NASDAQ Stock Market was impressive to start the year as January 2009 maintained remarkable growth. The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. has provided statistics for its U.S. exchange in a Globe Newswire press release. The NASDAQ exchange in the U.S. carried more ETF volume than any other U.S. exchange in [...]

Whenever a new index is created, a corresponding ETF is almost sure to follow. Last week, twenty-four companies that have received at least $1 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) came together under the Nasdaq OMX Government Relief Index. Tara Kalwarski of Business Week relays a report from Chief Marketing Officer of Nasdaq [...]