The Full List Broad commodity indexes and baskets are available via ETFs (GCC, GSG, DBC) and ETNs (UCI,GSC, DJP, GSP). There’s also a leveraged broad commodity ETF (UCD), a leveraged broad commodity ETN (DYY), and a double-short broad commodity ETF (CMD) and ETN (DEE). Agricultural commodities include cocoa (NIB), coffee (JO), cotton (BAL) and sugar [...]

IndexUniverse submits: By Dave Nadig Matt Hougan is certainly right that the yield hunt is a tough one. But does he really understand what “yield” means? Complete Story » Related Reading:ETF X-Ray: ULTI is Ultimately PricedETF Trends: Come Trade with Dr. FeelgoodETF Focus: This Kitty Could Roar Some MoreThere’s Black Gold in Them There ETFsState [...]

Roger Nusbaum submits: Saturday during the Olympics I spent a little time reading about Karl Popper, seriously, and while no one will confuse me for a Popper scholar I am in a slightly more critical (thinking) frame of mind than whatever is normal for me. With that in mind I stumbled across a couple of [...]

ETF Database submits: As job loses continue to mount in the United States–first-time claims for unemployment insurance recently rose by 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 496,000–many political officials and ordinary citizens are looking for creative ways to stem the seemingly never-ending loss of jobs. One of the hottest issues in recent weeks has been China’s [...]

Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Turkey’s exchange traded fund (ETF) was one of last year’s top performers and its economy likely grew in the fourth quarter. Now a coup in the country threatens to undo its hard-won growth. The Daily Maverick reports that Turkey’s military/Islamist tensions bubbled to the surface as dozens of officers were [...]