TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday
Lower prices for crude oil and gasoline make oil stock ETFs an increasingly popular market for traders and investors. Financial stocks continued to drive their related ETFs higher while selling returned in traditionally safe sectors such as utilities.
Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday.
With crude oil reaching new lows, more and more traders are reaching for oil stock ETFs such as the ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas ETF, DIG
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Traditional safe havens, utilities stocks pulled back on Thursday, leading to lower prices for utilities ETFs such as the SPDRS Utilities Select Sector ETF, XLU
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Up for a third day in a row and five out of the last six was the SPDRS Financial Select Sector ETF, XLF
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Closing lower for a sixth consecutive session was the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund, DBA
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