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ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF $19.64 (Nasdaq symbol SQQQ) aims to deliver 3 times the inverse of the daily performance of the Nasdaq 100 Index.


The Nasdaq 100 Index is comprised of shares of companies in a number of major industries, including telecommunications, computer hardware equipment and software, retail/wholesale trade, and biotechnology....

Growth stocks can be riskier than well-established firms, but the best of them often make good long-term investments. They may be well-known stars or quiet gems, but they do share one common attribute: they grow at a faster-than-average rate within their industry, or within the market as a whole, for years or decades.


Here we look at two ETFs that select growth stocks from the U.S....

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A: The Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, $51.57, symbol JUST on New York (Units outstanding: 3.2 million; Market cap: $165.0 million; www.gsam.com), started up June 7, 2018....

ISHARES CHINA LARGE-CAP ETF, $46.96, is a hold for safety-conscious investors. The ETF (New York symbol FXI; buy or sell through brokers) tracks the 50 largest, most-liquid Chinese stocks. Investors are charged a high 0.74% MER. The units yield 2.4%.


Top holdings for the $3.4 billion fund are Meituan Dianping (group buying/food delivery), 10.3%; Tencent (Internet), 9.9%; China Construction Bank, 8.7%; Alibaba (e-commerce), 6.4%; Ping An Insurance, 4.6%; Industrial & Commercial Bank, 4.5%; Wuxi Biologics, 3.9%; and Xiaomi (smartphones), 3.8%.


China now appears to have COVID-19 increasingly under control, and has steadily reopened its economy....

All of the major global stock markets fell in the wake of COVID-19’s spread. But many top markets have since rebounded. We think the outlook remains positive for quality stocks, and one way to profit, while cutting your risk, is to invest in quality ETFs.


Here’s a look at four international funds that we believe are well-suited for your new buying....

A: The Horizons Seasonal Rotation ETF, $19.10, symbol HAC on Toronto (Units outstanding: 11.5 million; Market cap: $219.7 million; www.horizonsetfs.com), is an example of an ETF that shows a wide disparity between its holdings and the investments the sales literature describes.

For example, this ETF aims to tactically spread and move around its holdings between stocks, fixed-income investments, commodities and currencies based on historical seasonal trends....

A: The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF, $39.83, symbol SDOG on New York (Units outstanding: 23.6 million; Market cap: $940.0 million; www.alpssectordividenddogs.com), is an ETF that applies the “Dogs of the Dow” theory on a sector-by-sector basis using the stocks in the S&P 500.

The fund started up on June 29, 2012, and its MER is 0.40%....

Many investors go through a time in their lives when they’re interested in market lore—observations of stock-market trading patterns that suggest easy, dependable tools for profit.

In pre-computer days, the search for these patterns took a lot of work, at least for amateurs....

A: iShares Canadian Financial Monthly Income ETF, $6.17, symbol FIE on Toronto (Units outstanding: 108.8 million; Market cap: $671.3 million; www.blackrock.com/ca), invests primarily in the common shares, preferred shares and corporate bonds of firms in the Canadian finance industry.

The fund charges investors an MER of 0.96%, which is high by ETF standards....