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Today's market continues to evolve at a rapid clip. That said, traditional broad market exposure is unable to accurately capture long-term secular trends.
Sector investing — it's a typical strategy for advisors if their clients are looking beyond broad market exposure by targeting a specific sector. The concept is fairly straightforward, but implementing the strategy is not as simple as it sounds.
When investors buy a sector ETF, they want exposure to a specific corner of the market without picking individual stocks.
Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLC - Get Free Report) was the recipient of unusually large options trading on Friday. Stock investors bought 110,241 put options on the company. This is an increase of 5,808% compared to the average volume of 1,866 put options. Institutional Inflows and Outflows Large investors have recently bought and
Months before Super Bowl LX kicks off at Levi's Stadium on February 9, the game was already being played, predicted, and celebrated across screens worldwide through companies held in the Amplify Video Game Leaders ETF (GAMR).
IT has been driven by AI spending, which looks likely to continue in 2026. Demand for cloud compute and storage is expected to soar.
Utilities are delivering strong results into 2025, driven by AI-fueled data center demand, with the sector generating strong returns from what are otherwise generally boring businesses. Over the long run, utilities and other infrastructure names can generate strong cash flows that go to fueling growing dividends. Putting these names in a closed-end fund wrapper, along with other income-generating assets, can produce attractive monthly distributions.
Retail investors are upbeat about the stock market's near-term prospects, despite lingering uncertainty around the Fed policy outlook.
State Street Investment Management (SSIM) has been the investment advisor for the Select Sector SPDR ETFs since 1998. It will now take over the distribution and marketing for these funds.
Matt Camuso, Head of ETF Solutions at BNY Investments, says there are $13 trillion of assets in ETFs. That's compared to $5 trillion a year prior.
The telecom sector surges ahead of the S&P 500 as Verizon and AT&T post solid Q3 results, fueling optimism for 2025 growth.
The stock market is historically expensive. Even as a recession is more and more plausible in the near future. Fortunately, many defensive dividend payers remain opportunistic.
The technology sector gets a lot of love from financial media, retail investors and sell-side firms. It's home to the biggest players in the ongoing AI rally, as well as most of the Magnificent Seven stocks.
IXP and XLC are two perfectly acceptable ETF's for investing in the overall Communications Services sector. The sector performance has been very good and the outlook remains attractive. IXP has a global focus, while XLC only holds equity in the companies in from the S&P 500. ETFs provide ease-of-use and instant diversification, but they have disadvantages as well.
ETFs saw $19B in inflows last week, led by fixed income, with XLC, VOO, IVV, VCSH and SGOV topping the asset creation list.
July U.S. ETFs saw gains in both flows and AUM as well as another elevated round of launches. In the tidal wave of funds coming to market, a few ETF strategies stand out for their innovation or for notable opportunities they provide.
The S&P 500 hit record highs multiple times in late July 2025. While investors seeking capital appreciation should be thrilled, those wanting income from their equity investments are likely a little disappointed.
Wednesday, July 23 came and went with another spate of earnings to report. While the still-hot theme of artificial intelligence (AI) living through big tech earnings may grab headlines, the communications sector specifically may also speak to investors.
Today's market reminds us of 1999 in many ways. REITs were hated. Tech was loved. But afterward, REITs strongly outperformed. Here's why it could happen again.
XLC is outperforming in 2024, with broad-based rallies beyond just mega-cap names like Alphabet, Meta, and Netflix. The sector's diverse composition and reasonable valuation (P/E ~18) provide room for multiple expansion and continued outperformance. Recent earnings and macro trends suggest markets were too pessimistic, and the economic backdrop supports further gains for XLC.