TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Thursday
Everything but the financials? Sellers were out in force on Wednesday, unloading shares of everything from technology to health care to basic materials. Pullbacks in country ETFs intensified – led by the drop in the iShares MSCI Taiwan Index ETF
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Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Thursday.
Set to close higher for an 11th consecutive trading day, the Financial Select SPDR ETF
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After a one-day bounce after dipping into oversold territory above the 200-day moving average, the SPDR S&P Biotechnology ETF
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The selling on Wednesday has already taken the Semiconductor HOLDRS ETF
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While a number of bond ETFs have bounced on Wednesday, the iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond ETF
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Strength in the British pound versus the U.S. dollar continues to drive the CurrencyShares British Pound Sterling Trust
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