ETNs

The Bank of Montreal launched five new exchange-traded notes (ETNs) Thursday, expanding its range of leveraged and inverse investment products. The Canadian banking firm has also been quietly ramping up its Bitcoin ETF holdings, reflecting a growing interest in the cryptocurrency market. For the...

So far this year, exchange traded products (ETPs) with digital assets as underlying collateral, recorded a 91% growth in total assets under management (AuM). That's according to Fineqia International, which reported $38 billion in ETPs AuM — a 25% increase from the prior month. That...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. The technology and consumer discretionary stocks that make up the NYSE® FANG+™ Index are pushing the index to new highs. The...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. What a difference eight weeks make. In April, we noted how the FANG stocks were among the first to rebound even as the market was just...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. We are in the midst of one of the most volatile periods in Wall Street history.  To put this period into perspective, the CBOE...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Investors looking to take advantage of a turnaround in master limited partnerships (MLPs) may want to consider the effects that...

Thursday is the final trading day for two popular crude oil trading instruments: VelocityShares 3X Long Crude ETN linked to the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index Excess Return (NYSE: UWTI) and VelocityShares 3X Inverse Crude ETN linked to the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index Excess Return (NYSE: DWTI). At...

Nearly as exchange-traded products that attempt to track the VIX, or other volatility gauges, have been around, these products have been heavily criticized and scrutinized. The iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (IPATH SP 500 VIX SHORT TERM FUT ETN (NYSE: VXX)), a favorite of hedge funds...

Since volatility is often viewed as being a bad thing and having a negative correlation to equities and other riskier assets, the timing could be right for the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures TM ETN (NYSE: VXX) and rival exchange-traded notes (ETNs), such as the once notorious Credit...

Investors have been treated to plenty of talk about increased market volatility in recent weeks, and such talk can increase the allure of volatility exchange-traded products, such as the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures TM ETN (NYSE: VXX). Whether market participants actually gravitate to...

Things are getting worse for oil and oil-related exchange-traded products. As of Friday's afternoon trading session, nearly 60 exchange-traded products have hit all-time lows. Of that group, 27 are commodities products, and that does not include a number of currency, fixed income and international...

After adding $19 billion last month, exchange-traded products trading in the United States, including ETFs and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) have hauled in $145 billion in new assets through the first nine months of this year – a record for that time frame, according to ETFGI, a London-based...

During the halcyon days of quantitative easing, dollar weakness and inflation expectations, commodities exchange traded products were hits. Just five years ago, there was $125 billion in assets under management across commodities exchange-traded funds and exchange traded notes (ETNs) and there was...

In July, ETFGI, a London-based ETF research firm, confirmed that total assets under management at the world's exchange-traded products, including ETFs and exchange traded notes (ETNs), eclipsed the assets held by hedge funds. “According to our analysis there was US$2.971 trillion...