TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday
Stocks rallied from their lowest levels of the day on Thursday, but still finished in the red. Financials, energy and technology continue to be the key sectors to the upside and the downside.
Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday.
Financial stocks led the markets toward oversold territory on Thursday, with shares of Bank of America
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Weighing on both the technology sector and the market as a whole was Microsoft
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Among the few emerging markets ETFs to have remained above its December 2008 lows during the recent sell-off is the iShares MSCI Brazil Index ETF, EWZ
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Whether you think growth stocks will outperform value stocks in 2009 or vice versa, exchange-traded funds make it easy for traders and investors to get exposure to both the “tortoise” and the “hare” of stock investing. Find the growth stocks you want in an ETF such as the iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund, ETF, IVW
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