'Boring' ETF Is Winning Big As Investors Park Billions During Murky Fed Outlook U.S.-listed ETFs absorbed $44.2 billion last week, pushing year-to-date inflows to a new high of $1.28 trillion. Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
Russell 2000 Hits Record Highs, Silver Rallies To $60: What's Moving Markets Tuesday? U.S. small caps climbed to fresh record highs Tuesday as traders nearly fully priced in a Federal Reserve rate cut at Wednesday's policy meeting. Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
New Dividend ETF Launches Just As Fed Decision Looms — Is KDVD The SMID-Cap Play Investors Need? Gabelli Funds launched the Keeley Dividend ETF (NYSE:KDVD), an actively managed fund targeting income and long-term appreciation through small- and mid-cap dividend payers, just as markets hover near record highs and investors brace for a highly anticipated Federal Reserve rate cut. Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
Oil Prices May Fall to $55 by 2026—Bad News for This Energy ETF After another lackluster year for the energy sector, 2026’s oil outlook spells trouble for the Big Oil stocks that constitute the XLE. MarketBeat · Dec 9, 2025
Improving Economic Signals Drives Participation In Direxion's Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares RETL ETF With the economy struggling from elevated prices and the Trump administration's tariffs, circumstances have not been particularly pleasant for consumers. It's no surprise, then, that the SP Retail Select Industry Index has been a relative underperformer. Since the start of the year, the retail sector benchmark has gained less than… Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
Investors Pour Billions Into SPY — While Dumping Its Cheaper Twins. What's Going On? U.S.-listed ETFs just pulled in another $44.2 billion last week, pushing 2025 flows past $1.28 trillion and locking in a fresh annual record, per Bloomberg data, cited by Etf.com. But beneath the champagne moment, something odd flashed in last week’s numbers: investors couldn’t seem to agree on how they wanted… Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
This ETF Thrives on Rising Long-Term Rates. Why It’s 1 of the Best Ways to Profit Before Wednesday’s Fed Meeting. You don’t need to understand everything impacting the yield curve. But, you do need to understand risk management and learn how to play “defense” in dangerous markets. Barchart · Dec 9, 2025
SPY Issuer State Street Sees Quality Metric Slides Amid Threats To Voting Power State Street Corp. (NYSE:STT), the issuer behind the massive SPDR SP 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY), has seen its fundamental “Quality” ranking deteriorate into the bottom decile this week. Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
Investor Quits 9-to-5 Job After Reaching $14K Per Month in Dividends, Shares High-Yield Portfolio – 'The Freedom And Time With Family is Priceless' Concerns about stretched tech valuations and a possible AI bubble are pushing investors toward dividend stocks as they look to diversify their portfolios. Peter Oppenheimer, chief global equity strategist at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), recently told Bloomberg that dividend growth is among the factors likely to drive equities higher in 2026. Benzinga · Dec 9, 2025
XRP ETFs Are Booming As Ethereum Funds Bleed — What's Driving The Split? U.S. spot XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) ETFs are about to cross $1 billion in net inflows, a milestone they are set to hit just over two weeks after launch. This surge comes even as spot Ethereum ETFs quietly notched more than $50 million in outflows over the same period, creating a… Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025
This Popular Wall Street Strategist Says It’s a ‘High-Risk Bull Market.’ He’s Right, with the Fed in Focus. It’s time investors learn how to play the other side of the trade. Barchart · Dec 8, 2025
JPMorgan's $1.5 Trillion Security Push Lifts Spotlight On Defense, Critical Minerals And Tech ETFs JPMorgan Chase Co‘s (NYSE:JPM) decision to hire Todd Combs, long viewed as a key figure in Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s (NYSE:BRK) succession bench, can spark fresh momentum in investment themes tied to U.S. national security and economic resilience. Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025
Paramount Skydance Rallies On Hostile Bid, Netflix Tumbles: What's Moving Markets Monday? U.S. stocks kicked off the week in a mixed pattern, with sentiment turning cautious as traders consider a Fed rate cut all but fully baked into current valuations. CME FedWatch tool currently assigns a 90% likelihood to a quarter-point reduction at the Dec. 10 meeting. Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025
Germany's Bankruptcy Wave Sends Shock Ripples Through Two Key Equity ETFs Germany is on course for the highest corporate insolvency count in more than a decade, raising fresh questions about the resilience of the nation’s largest listed companies — and the ETFs that track them. Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025
Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025 Silver's Historic Run Supercharges ETF Demand As Inventories Run Thin Silver steadied near $58.50 an ounce in Asian trading on Monday, just below last week's all-time high, as traders braced for a widely expected Federal Reserve rate cut.
Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025 Healthcare Relevancies Clashes With Premium Valuations For Direxion's LLY-Focused ELIL, ELIS ETFs In terms of sheer relevance, it's difficult to think of a more relevant sector than healthcare — and within this vast ecosystem, only an elite few occupy the same neighborhood as pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY). In November 2025, Eli Lilly became the first trillion-dollar pharmaceutical company, mostly…
Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025 Consumer Tech Juggernaut Apple's Dynamic Ascendancy Fosters Unique Opportunities For Direxion's AAPU, AAPD ETFs Undeniably, a pivotal advantage that consumer tech giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) freely wields is its popular and powerful brand. Once known as a quirky computer company, Apple has become synonymous with the smartphone and digital device revolution. Even as competitors moved in, the company has been able to retain its…
Benzinga · Dec 6, 2025 Inflation Cools, Sentiment Pops — ETF Rally On The Cards For These Themes? Fresh U.S. economic data is giving ETF markets a cleaner setup heading into next week’s Federal Reserve decision, with cooling inflation and a sharper-than-expected rebound in consumer sentiment reviving hopes for a December rate cut.
Benzinga · Dec 5, 2025 Nancy Pelosi And Dan Ives Pile Into The Same 8 AI Stocks — What Do They See Coming? Combine one of the most well-known financial figures and the investment portfolio of the most followed member of Congress, and you will get a lot of bets on the artificial intelligence sector.
Benzinga · Dec 5, 2025 Netflix To Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery: What It Means For AMC AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE:AMC) shares are trading lower Friday morning following the announcement that Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (NASDAQ:WBD) in a definitive deal valued at $82.7 billion.
Benzinga · Dec 5, 2025 S&P 500 Flirts With Records, Netflix Drops After Warner Bros Deal: What's Moving Markets Friday? Major Wall Street indexes were slightly higher by midday Friday, supported by economic data that strengthened expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week.
Benzinga · Dec 5, 2025 ETFs Hit Record $13.2 Trillion In November: What Are Investors Chasing? The U.S. ETF industry surpassed a new record in November, as total assets reached $13.2 trillion, the highest on record, according to the latest monthly summary from FactSet.
Kiplinger · Dec 5, 2025 Crypto Trends to Watch in 2026 Cryptocurrency is still less than 20 years old, but it remains a fast-moving (and also maturing) market. Here are the crypto trends to watch for in 2026.
Benzinga · Dec 5, 2025 Netflix's $82 Billion Warner Bros Deal Could Tilt This Big ETF's Balance Netflix Inc’s (NASDAQ:NFLX) $82 billion deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery Inc’s (NASDAQ:WBD) studio and streaming assets may reshape Hollywood for the next century, but its most immediate effect is headed straight for the ETF market.
Benzinga · Dec 5, 2025 BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF Sees Record $2.7 Billion Exodus BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) is seeing persistent withdrawals from its iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ:IBIT) as investors pulled more than $2.7 billion over five consecutive weeks.