Fund performance

Some providers are offering access to the industry through bundles of shares focused on businesses that run everything from airports to cell phone towers.

The launch from WidomTree comes as investors assess Mexico’s growth prospects amid Trump’s threats to renegotiate trade pacts and impose a tax on imports.

The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF gained nearly 0.6% after Daniel Tarullo announced he will retire on or around April 5.

Both asset classes are off to their best start to a year since 2011, buoyed by the idea that the doom-and-gloom reaction to Trump's election was overdone.

These sources behind this trend could be dwindling at a particularly inopportune time in the event that fiscal stimulus causes the U.S. budget to balloon.

The post-election outperformance of the firm’s "cyclicals versus defensive" basket of stocks has ceased; it now trails the S&P 500’s advance since Nov. 8.

The Dow pulled back this week as President Donald Trump's immigration restrictions stoked speculation about policies that could harm American trade.

Activists could gain more clout as stock ownership is concentrated among fewer owners, with funds shifting to indexed strategies, the firm suggests.

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Gold futures may see their first monthly gain since September as worries over President Donald Trump's trade policy outweighs the threat of rate hikes.

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November's election results sent the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond index, which Ford O'Neil's fund tracks, to its biggest monthly loss since 2004.

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Fund managers reflect on both the bear and bull eras, political and market forces from Richard Nixon's price controls and the financial crisis.

This massive outflow points to the use by institutional investors, which had in the past tended to gravitate toward similar products.

Firms like the Denver-based money manager that run actively managed strategies have been losing to competitors offering lower-cost mutual funds and ETFs.

The move echoes a larger effort by Wall Street to boost brokerage revenue as investors flee actively managed funds for cheaper products.

Investors have started buying gold through ETFs again as holdings rose 0.9 metric tons.

Big investors are motivated by signs the world has finally escaped from the decade of limp economic growth.

Investor sentiment is unabashedly high, with option costs falling and money flowing into stocks at an almost unprecedented rate.