TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday
Upward momentum continued on Thursday, as traders and investors bid both industrial and technology ETFs higher on the day. Country ETFs in Europe and the Americas tended to outperform ETFs from many Asian nations.
Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday.
After hours earnings announcements from Google
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All three of the above technology ETFs are increasingly due for a pullback, trading in overbought territory above their respective 200-day moving averages.
Buying in financial shares helped push the ProShares Ultra Financials ETF
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European country ETFs continue to put in more impressive performances than their Asian counterparts over the past few days. Both the iShares MSCI Germany Index ETF
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