Ticker Sense

New Bond ETFs

This weekend's Financial Times ran an article highlighting a new line of ETFs recently introduced by Barclays.  The eight new ETFs offer investors an easy way to gain exposure to different areas of the fixed income markets, although we would warn that liquidity in most of these issues is lacking.  In the table below, we have highlighted the new and existing fixed income ETFs along with their average daily volume.

U.S. ETF Overbought/Oversold

Here are the U.S. ETFs that are currently the most overbought and oversold.  It's curious that while most fixed income ETFs are in oversold territory, the real estate ETFs are overbought.

S&P 500 Extremes

S&P 500 Extremes

While the S&P 500 10-day advance/decline line is getting up there, not too many stocks in the Index have been up for 5 days in a row (unlike a couple of weeks ago), and individual stocks aren't as extended from their 50-days as they were at the start of the year.