Rareview Macro

There is no dearth of exchange-traded funds that have “benchmark” status, and plenty of those are believed to be sound gauges of risk appetite. One of the more overlooked ETFs in terms of gauging market sentiment and risk appetite might just be the Ishares MSCI Europe Fincls Sctr Indx...

If precious metals exchange-traded funds, such as the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD) and the iShares Silver Trust (ETF) (NYSE: SLV), were to be compared to high school sports teams, the gold funds would be the varsity team while SLV and friends would be the junior varsity squad. That is not so...

Sometimes, “better” is a relative term, but there is no denying the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fd (NYSE: VWO), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM) and other emerging markets exchange-traded funds are certainly acting better to start 2016 than they did in...

Over the past 90 days, 20 (or 80 percent) of the 25 worst performing exchange-traded products are ETFs or exchange-traded notes (ETNs) related to oil and natural gas. And of those 20 offenders, including the worst performer, nine of those products are dedicated master limited partnership ETFs or...

To say the United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO), which tracks West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures, is a flawed product is accurate and fair. Over the past three years, USO is down 77.1 percent, but the exchange-traded product remains a favorite, on both sides of the oil trade, of...

Given its lengthy bear market, mounting bearish price forecasts and the "more bad news than good news" scenario facing the oil market, it might come as a surprise to some that professional investors are not heavily short the commodity. That is understandable when considering the United States Oil...

It wasn't supposed to be this way for financial services exchange-traded funds. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates last month, doing so for the first time in nearly a decade, and market observers widely expect a couple of more rate hikes this year. Conventional wisdom dictates higher...

Chinese equities started 2016 on an inauspicious note when stocks in Shanghai plunged 7 percent Monday, prompting the closure of equity markets in the world's second largest economy. That glum start to the new year would seem to indicate the right way to play Chinese stocks is with an inverse...

The iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK), the two largest high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds by assets, are down an average of 4 percent, but those declines only tell part of the story. Amid a spate of energy...

The United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO), which tracks front month West Texas Intermediate futures, has plunged nearly 39 percent year-to-date. That massive decline comes on the heels of USO's 2014 loss of 42.4 percent. Yet, somehow, someway, USO keeps attracting assets. To be precise,...

Just three exchange-traded funds hit 52-week highs Tuesday. Neither the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP) nor the WisdomTree Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Bullish Fund (NYSE: USDU) were among that trio. However, UUP and USDU currently reside an average of about 1 percent below their...

When it comes to exchange-traded funds that hold bank stocks, many U.S. investors focus on familiar ETFs such as the Select Sector Financial Slct Str SPDR Fd (NYSE: XLF) and the iShares Dow Jones US Financial (ETF) (NYSE: IYF), but that domestic bias could be costing those investors opportunity...

Granted, the earnings bar was set low. The stock is still in the doldrums year-to-date and much of the gains seen earlier today have evaporated, but shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) are higher by about 3 percent at this writing. The Chinese e-commerce giant reported third-quarter...

The iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF (NYSE: IWM) and other well-known small-cap benchmarks have lagged the S&P 500 in the rally off the market's September lows, but some signs point to small caps erasing those recently established laggard status. For example, investors are showing renewed...

Entering Thursday, PowerShare BuyBack Achievers Fund (ETF) (NYSE: PKW), the largest buyback exchange-traded fund, sported a year-to-date loss of 8.2 percent, or nearly 300 basis points worse than that of the S&P 500. Unless PKW stages an epic reversal in the last three months of 2015, it risks...