U.S. treasury bonds typically occupy a special place in an investor’s portfolio — the asset class against which all other market risk is measured. But a surge in long-dated yields is forcing investors to rethink this assumption. The yield on the 10-year treasury recently surged to a level it had not seen in over a…
As investors worry about all of the companies that AI will wipe out, they are rotating into the ones that AI will have a harder time disrupting. And the HALO trade, as it is called, is working. HALO, which stands for “heavy assets, low obsolescence,” was coined by Josh Brown, co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz…
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) just hit $9.8 billion in assets under management in 43 days— the fastest pace ever for an exchange-traded fund, according to TMX VettaFi. Ahead of Thursday’s milestone, the CEO of Roundhill Investments told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” the rapid growth is tied to the limited number of companies involved in producing…
Prediction markets ETFs may soon be coming to retail investors and even into retirement plans, but maybe just not as fast as anticipated. The Securities and Exchange Commission during the second Trump administration has sought to distinguish itself from Biden era regulators with what it calls a move away from the “regulatory creep” that it…
Gold pure gold bar models captured in Shanghai, China on March 15, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Gold and oil have been two of the hottest trades of the last 12 months, but one could be causing the other to falter now. What’s good for energy stocks may be bad for precious…
Risk in the credit markets has received a lot of attention in 2026, from fears about private credit stress to the head of the nation’s biggest bank, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, warning this week — though not pointing to any specific current credit market signal — “We haven’t had a credit recession in so long,…
As geopolitical tensions ripple through global energy markets and a deal to end the U.S.-Iran war remains elusive, oil prices have soared, but there’s an even better trade on energy volatility that investors have flocked to: the cost of moving crude. The Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (BWET), a little-known exchange-traded fund tied to crude oil…
Soon, investors may be able to wager on who wins control of the Senate in their brokerage accounts. Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds which would then be available, for instance, within a self-directed IRA. “An ETF issuer’s job is to give investors access…
Cybersecurity and enterprise software stocks have been market dogs since the start of 2026, with fears that AI will wipe out a wide range of companies in the enterprise space dominating the narrative. But they snapped a brutal losing streak this past week, joining in the broader market rally that saw all losses from the…
New innovation in the exchange-traded fund industry could come at a cost to investors during extreme conditions. According to MFS Investment Management’s Jamie Harrison, ETFs involved in increasingly complex derivatives and less transparent markets may be in uncharted territory when it comes to violent downturns. “Those would be something that you’d want to keep an…
