Consumer Cyclicals ETF Channel

In sum, across all 646 U.S. ETFs on the market, there was more than $3.1 billion in net creation activity last week.

Our monthly look at the performance of the ETF market.

Four new FocusShares ETFs debuted on the New York Arca platform.

The latest installment of the Active Indexer reviews his results and takes a look at the growing dominance of high-quality assets.

BRIC countries outperformed, while home construction and financials lagged.

What trends have been driving ETF performance in 2007?

In part II of a series, Serrapere considers new approaches to handle the increasingly risky market.

The Market Vectors Steel (AMEX: SLX) turned in the best first-halfperformance of any exchange-traded fund (ETF), posting a 42.46 percentrise since January. That easily topped the nearest competition, theiShares Brazil (NYSE: EWZ) fund, which turned in a 30.8% return.Clearly, metals, energy and emerging markets were the places to be forthe first half of this year.