healthcare ETFs

As has been widely documented, the healthcare sector, the S&P 500's third-largest sector weight, is struggling this year. The Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLV), the largest healthcare exchange-traded fund by assets, is down nearly 4 percent this year and is in position to notch its first...

With just a few weeks before Election Day, investors by now know that the healthcare sector and its related exchange-traded funds would really like the political rhetoric to come to an end. Perhaps more than any other factor, campaign trail rhetoric, most of it levied by Democratic nominee Hillary...

There are plenty of financial services exchange-traded funds on the market today. The same goes for healthcare ETFs. After all, financial services and healthcare are the S&P 500's second- and third-largest sector weights, respectively. However, many traditional financial services and...

Mergers and acquisitions have been one of the key drivers behind the healthcare sector's leadership during the current bull market. That catalyst has been dealt a blow at the hands of the U.S. government's efforts to crack down on inversion deals, but that does not mean healthcare M&A...

Thanks to a recent rally, the Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLV) and comparable healthcare exchange-traded funds have nudged higher on a year-to-date basis. Compared to how it looked a few weeks ago, XLV's 0.1 percent year-to-date gains looks decent. Relative to how XLV performed over the past...

In what is a stunning reversal to a long-standing bullish trend, the Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLV) is the worst performer of the nine established sector SPDR exchange-traded funds this year, with a loss of 4.5 percent. XLV, the largest healthcare ETF by assets, is off 4.5 percent year-to-date...