TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Wednesday
Virtually all sectors save for financials gained on Tuesday as stocks responded to the increasingly oversold conditions in the marketplace.
Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Wednesday
Among the leaders to the upside were healthcare stocks, with Merck & Company
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Also moving higher on Tuesday was the technology sector, characterized by the outperformance of the Technology Select Sector SPDRS ETF, XLK
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Up for a second day in a row were many emerging markets ETFs such as the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ETF, EWZ
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Short/inverse ETFs were on the retreat on Tuesday, with the ProShares UltraShort Consumer Services ETF, SCC
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