TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Tuesday
Surprisingly good news from the housing sector and buying in telecommunications and consumer discretionary sectors helped move stocks higher on Monday. Earnings from Verizon Communications
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Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Tuesday.
Telecommunications stocks were the early leaders of the day on Monday, with traders and investors buying the news that Sprint
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Better than expected existing homes sales boosted home builder stocks like Lennar
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Among the ETFs that have been outperforming over the past four weeks are a pair of newer funds that are linked three-to-one to the inverse of their respective markets: the Direxion Financial Bear 3X Shares ETF, FAZ
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Many ETF traders and investors know that they can get exposure to the price of oil through the United States Oil Fund ETF, USO
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