TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday
Like stocks, few exchange-traded funds were making major moves on the shortened trading day of Christmas eve. This provides an opportunity to point out a number of ETFs based on such non-equity markets as bonds, international currencies and precious metals that ETF traders and investors may want to learn more about in time for 2009.
Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday.
Closing lower for the past five days in a row, the Dow Diamonds ETF, DIA
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Legendary investors Jim Rogers told Bloomberg TV that he was looking to short U.S. Treasuries and buy the Japanese yen. We highlighted the ETF for the Japanese yen in Tuesday’s TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know. ETF traders and investors looking to follow the other side of Jim Rogers’ plan for 2009 may want to look at ETFs such as the iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, TLT
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Want to trade currencies from a regular stock brokerage account? Exchange-traded funds like the CurrencyShares Euro Trust, FXE
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Commodity trading and investing isn’t just for futures traders any more, either. Thanks to ProShares, stock and ETF traders can now get inverse exposure to precious metals like gold and silver through a new pair of short ETFs: the ProShares UltraShort Gold ETF, GLL
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David Penn is Editor-in-Chief at TradingMarkets.com