IXN News and Press, iShares Global Tech From 06/11/20

By Lei Qiu Tech stocks weren't considered defensive investments in the past. But as the coronavirus crisis reinforces technology's fundamental role in our lives, investors can find sources of risk reduction and growth potential in companies that have become digital utilities enabling globa...

In the spring of 2000, as now, there was a widespread belief (we remember well, we were there) that the leading tech companies would be impervious to recessionary strife in their customers, the wider economy and financial markets. See The NASDAQ's summer 2000 bounce might contain a cautionary...

ETF Overview iShares Global Technology ETF (IXN) owns a portfolio of large-cap and giant-cap global technology stocks. The fund seeks to track the S&P Global 1200 Information Technology Index. Most of the stocks in IXN's portfolio have competitive positions with moats. In addition, most ...

"The market is in our view currently pricing a deep recession for the entire year, with no anticipation of light at the end of the tunnel. Reconciling consensus expectations from a bottom-up perspective and the recent price action, which has a more top-down perspective, we believe that the w...

CNBC's Jim Cramer was recently quoted as saying " this should be the beginning of the end for sector ETFs ". While I agree with Todd Rosenbluth's initial response on Twitter , I felt it important to lay out a few facts and lists of sector ETFs highlighting why their importance to investors wi...

Introduction "What was surprising about 2019 is that every major asset class produced above-average returns... We saw cyclical investments, those that tend to do well when the economy is accelerating like stocks and commodities, do very well alongside more defensive assets, those ...

From the launch of the first exchange-traded fund back in 1993 with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY ), the investment vehicle quickly gained popularity as a low-cost and highly liquid option for investors to gain passive exposure to broad market indexes. One of the themes this past decad...

When the year began, it was looking increasingly likely that the US Fed would become more "dovish" on Christmas Eve 2018. Much like when Alan Greenspan instituted a neutral policy in 2000 following a similarly bleak draw down, the dovishness looked to trigger a three-month recovery. However, m...

The evolution of technology has certainly garnered the interest of the general public and investors alike as tech innovation continues to move forward at a remarkable speed. Overall, the sector has come a long way in the last two decades: in March 2000, the S&P 500 technology index hit i...

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