July was a lethargic month for U.S. stocks with the S&P 500 adding just 0.2 percent for the month, but the Nasdaq Composite impressed with a gain of 2.8 percent.
Still, six of the top 10 asset-gathering exchange traded funds for the month of July were U.S.-focused equity funds. Investors were somewhat less enthusiastic about international ETFs as just two ranked among the top asset gatherers while four such funds were among the month's worst in terms of lost assets. Speaking of lost assets, gold ETFs fell out of favor in a significant fashion last month with the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) bleeding $1.11 billion in assets. Just two other ETFs lost more assets last month.
This Week
Looking to the first week of August, ETFs that bear monitoring include the PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ: QQQ), the Nasdaq-100 tracking ETF. As was noted at the outset, the Nasdaq jumped nearly 3 percent last month, but the ...
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