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First Trust Advisors announced the First Trust Indxx Critical Metals ETF (NYSE:FMTL) as its 300th ETF, which will focus on capturing growing investor demand for companies providing the metals that keep solar panels, electric vehicles and smartphones running.

Global gold ETFs inch towards record holdings again — but investors aren’t marching in lockstep. According to the WGC’s October report, while U.S. and Asian buyers continued to add to gold-linked exchange-traded funds, European investors opted to cash out.

The Nasdaq QQQ ETF’s unusual options activity on Thursday prompted a little thought experiment. Although the ETF had plenty of unusually active options yesterday, the $800 call expiring in September 2026 presented an interesting hypothetical.

Natural gas is a seasonal commodity that tends to rally during the winter as the demand for heating increases. U.S. natural gas futures prices are already around the $4 per MMBtu level as the market heads into the year’s coldest months.

Leverage Shares by Themes announced Wednesday that it launched three new leveraged single-stock ETFs to provide magnified exposure to popular and up-and-coming names.

While the technology sector has enjoyed a blistering run thanks to robust demand for data centers and other innovations tied to artificial intelligence, an ugly side to the narrative exists. Essentially, as productivity increases, so too does the capability for tech to empower harmful applications. However, enterprises like Palo Alto…

For years, large U.S. stocks were all you needed for a diversified portfolio. A broader mix is better now.

Tech Bull Dan Ives is dismissing fears of an AI-driven tech bubble, arguing instead that the market is in the early stages of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” that has years left to run.

Howard Marks, the co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management and a revered investor known for predicting the dot-com crash, is cautioning that a recent string of high-profile bankruptcies and frauds are “precursors of problems ahead.”

If you don’t follow the bond market, it’s time to start learning.

E.l.f. Beauty Inc’s (NYSE:ELF) stock collapse over the past two days didn’t just smudge its own valuation, it also cast a shadow over several consumer and retail ETFs exposed to high-multiple, tariff-sensitive names. On Wednesday, ELF crashed 29%, and Thursday is going even worse for the stock, which is down…