Entering Tuesday, the S&P 500, the benchmark U.S. equity index, sports a modest year-to-date loss of 0.12 percent. That would seem to imply it was a boring year for U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds that track the S&P 500.
However, this year was anything but boring the myriad ETFs that track indexes that are derivatives of the S&P 500. ETF issuers obliged that trend by bringing new S&P 500 off-shoot products to market this year.
“Many of the weak stocks in the S&P 500 index were in the energy sector, which was plagued by low commodity prices. Indeed the three worst performers in the index, all part of the energy sector, were down more than 70 percent for the year. According to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst with S&P Dow Jones Indices, excluding the energy sector that was down 22 percent from the broader index would have resulted ...
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