Port of Los Angeles posts high July volume, helped by retail goods, AI project parts
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports is expected to steadily decline for the rest of the year amid rising tariffs.
ETFs & Funds
How RANK Blends Analyst Consensus With Technical Signals
Finding promising stocks isn’t as simple as either following a stock’s price or looking at analyst ratings. It requires both. Investors need to understand why analysts like a company and whether the s…
Turn on the Lights to the Utilities Spending Boom With This ETF
Domestic for-profit utilities are spending big to meet the artificial intelligence (AI) demand moment. Regulatory Research Associates estimates that from 2026 through 2030, U.S. utilities will shell o…
Gold Mining ETFs: Poised to Outshine Gold
Gold’s outlook has brightened considerably following its first-half correction. Spot prices have rebounded to flirt with $4,400 per ounce, supported by renewed central-bank buying, softer economic dat…
Balance China’s Shifting Lithium Market With the BATT ETF
Recent price forecasts from BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, highlighted notable market trends in mainland China’s lithium market. BMI revised its forecasts for China lithium carbonate to $20,100 per t…
Quality & Rate Protection in a Single Bond ETF
Investing is often a reminder that there are no free lunches. For market participants to get something, they have to give up something, too. The fixed income universe embodies that sentiment. Want big…
Clients Want Crypto? Active ETP TKNZ Is a 1-Stop Shop
While it doesn’t necessarily dominate the headlines as much as it has in past years, crypto remains an area of significant interest and opportunity. Spot ETPs are available now for investors to better…
Bet on a Broadcom Bounce With This ETF
Last Friday, shares of semiconductor giant Broadcom (AVGO) dipped nearly 6% on reports of a security vulnerability pertaining to the company’s VMware vCenter Syslog Server. Concerns about the state of…
2Q26 Midstream/MLP Buybacks: Momentum Continues
Quarterly equity repurchases for midstream MLPs and corporations remained healthy in 2Q26, keeping pace with first-quarter levels. Cheniere Energy (LNG) spent $550 million on buybacks, and familiar pl…
3 Small-Cap ETFs to Watch as Russell 2000 Hits Record
The Russell 2000 closed at a new record high Friday amid continued upwards momentum for several market indexes. That index, with its focus on small-caps, could prove an intriguing source of investing …
Thematic ETFs Dominated Last Week’s Top Stories
The week ended August 14 saw readers on ETF Database and ETF Trends turn mainly to stories focused on thematic ETFs, all of which involved ETFs addressing concerns that are top of mind for investors a…
Breaking the AUM Mold: Separating Planning From Investments
In this episode, Brendan sits down with financial advisor Adam Wojtkowski to unpack a major shift he’s making in his business: separating financial planning from investment management into two distinc…
How Active Finance ETF FDFF Has Delivered on Key Milestone
The ETF landscape grows every day, with new active and passive strategies available for investors to use. Those funds range from core allocations to bespoke, thematic offerings. How, then, should inve…
AI Infrastructure Trade Still Alive. Seize It with SOXL
There’s no denying that artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure equities endured a rough stretch in July and “rough” might even be an understatement. However, traders shouldn’t write off the secto…
Small Caps, Big Opportunities: Consider Value Amid Rally
Small-cap equities are winning out against their large-cap counterparts in a classic David versus Goliath ETF battle. After years of mega-cap technology dominance, small-cap equities have delivered in…
The Hidden Strength of Active Sector ETFs Spiking Right Now
Sector ETFs have long been a part of the overall ETF ecosystem. The ETF’s transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency have made it a vehicle for all sorts of sector strategies. However, they haven’t…
The Bottlenecks of the Nuclear Fuel & Supply Chain
While there is no shortage of demand from the nuclear renaissance, the rate of deploying new reactors will be determined by the capacity of the supply chain. Expanding capacity for supply chain bottle…
Malaysia’s July CPI rises 1.8% y/y, slightly less than forecast
KUALA LUMPUR (July 24): Malaysia’s headline inflation, which came unchanged year-on-year at 2% in June, is projected to remain steady for the rest of 2024, on the muted impact from the recent diesel s…
VanEck’s Top 10 Income ETFs Ranked by ETF Yields
Many investors need more than traditional bonds can deliver. VanEck provides access to a range of higher-yielding asset classes built for today’s income environment. Key Takeaways With a 13.46% yield,…
German companies cut US investment to three-year low, data show
August 16, 2026, 1:15 PM EDT. Executives told CoinDesk that crypto allocators are evaluating tokens based on revenue, user activity and value extraction instead of using market capitalization as a qua…
Reader Mailbag: More Payouts Every Year
Two weeks ago, Robert left a comment that asked me to name my five favorite dividend stocks that pay monthly. I can easily rattle off my five favorite dividend stocks right now, but none of them pay o…
Trump’s 2024 grocery photo op now haunts Republicans in the midterms
By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia JARAMIJO/SAN MATEO, Ecuador, August 15 (Reuters) – At first light on Ecuador’s Pacific coast, small fishing boats fan out from the villages of San Mateo and Jaram…
Main Management Market Note – August 14, 2026
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Retail Sales Fall Unexpectedly in July
U.S. headline retail sales fell unexpectedly in July, down 0.6% to $763.6B in July, while core retail sales fell unexpectedly by 0.3%. Key Takeaways Headline retail sales fell unexpectedly in July, do…