October 13, 2025 – In an increasingly volatile global landscape, marked by renewed U.S.-China trade hostilities and persistent fiscal anxieties, investors are strategically deploying Volatility Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) as a critical hedging mechanism. The current market sentiment, while cautious, reflects a calculated effort by financial participants to safeguard
Investors focus on strategic stock picks amid market volatility. Traders make calculated decisions during earnings season. Freeport-McMoRan and American Express named top choices.
Middle East conflict boosts demand for 'crisis alpha' ETFs in defense, energy, inflation, and cybersecurity sectors, as investors fear market volatility.
Investor sentiment was shocked by Trump's 25% tariff on auto imports, increasing inflation fears. But some ETFs performed well, with gains up to 22.8%.
VIX ETFs are popular tools for hedging or speculating on volatility, tracking VIX futures. VIXY, VIXM, VXX, VXZ for short-term plays, SVIX for inverse volatility, UVXY for aggressive traders. Today's drop means gains for SVIX and declines for VXX, VIXY, and UVXY.
The CBOE VIX, which reflects investors' consensus view of future (30-day) expected stock market volatility, surged nearly 18% on Monday to hit 22.74 as of 2:00 p.m. ET, its highest level since August 2024.
Wall Street sees steepest weekly drop in months due to trade uncertainty and Fed's cautious stance on rate cuts. A few ETFs emerged as top performers with leveraged strategies and sector-specific trends.
The brief ruckus around inflation forcing the Federal Reserve to pause earlier this week just didn’t last. Meanwhile, the utilities came rushing back. In such an environment, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF XLU may look appealing.
Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”) announced today that it will implement a 1 for 4 reverse split of two series of iPath® ETNs (together, the “ETNs”): the iPath® Series B S&P 500® VIX Short-Term Futures™ ETNs (CUSIP: 06748F324) (the “VXX ETNs”) and the iPath® Series B S&P 500® VIX Mid-Term Futures™ ETNs (CUSIP: 06746P613) (the “VXZ ETNs”). Barclays intends the reverse split for each series of ETNs to be effective at the open of trading on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Each series of ETNs currently trades on the CBOE BZX Exchange (“CBOE”) under the ticker symbol “VXX” for the VXX ETNs and “VXZ” for the VXZ ETNs.
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of acquirers of a short position in Barclays’ iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Exchange Traded Note (“ETN”) under the symbol “VXXB” (hereinafter “VXX”) due to selling VXX ETNs, selling VXX call options, and/or buying VXX put options and who held that position as of the close of market on March 13, 2022. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 17, 2024.
We performed a screening of mid-cap ETFs - defined as having Assets Under Management (AUM) between $400 million and $2 billion - to determine what funds had the largest change in net assets on the week, according to data from etfdb.com. Only non-leveraged funds were considered.
