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Image sourced from Unsplash This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and not intended to be investing advice. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the biggest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II, has wide-ranging...

This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and not intended to be investing advice. The Global X research team is pleased to release the February 2022 edition of the Thematic ETF Report. The report recaps Global X’s classification system...

The health care sector, the second-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, is easily the worst-performing group in the U.S. this year, but in other countries with massive health care markets, the sector is performing well. What Happened The Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV), the largest...

Writing covered calls is a popular options strategy used by income investors. Also known as a “buy-write” strategy, covered calls involve selling call options on a stock the investor already owns. In a hypothetical example, an investor that owns 100 shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)...

The cloud computing industry is experiencing rapid growth, but for nearly eight years, just one exchange traded fund was dedicated to cloud stocks: the First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (NASDAQ: SKYY). What Happened SKYY got some competition with the Tuesday debut of the Global X Cloud Computing ETF...

Since the completion of the National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy-funded Human Genome Project in 2003, genomics has been one of the most compelling areas of the biotechnology universe. Genomics investing is now more accessible thanks to Tuesday's debut of the Global X Genomics...

The Global X MSCI Greece ETF (NYSE: GREK), the only U.S.-listed exchange traded fund dedicated to Greek equities, is up 22 percent this year. That's good for one of the better showings among emerging markets single-country ETFs and there could be reasons to expect more upside ahead for GREK....

An array of China-focused exchange traded funds are benefiting as Chinese equities lead emerging markets higher this year. When considering China ETFs, U.S. investors often lean toward traditional funds. Investors leaning that way may want to consider a newer fund that compares...

A new entrant to the fray of dividend exchange traded funds is the Global X S&P 500 Quality Dividend ETF (CBOE: QDIV), which debuted last July. While QDIV lacks the seasoning of some rival dividend ETFs, the fund's relevance in today's market environment is noteworthy.  What...

For years, data have pointed to increasingly older populations in some of the world's largest countries. The typical ways of playing that theme include health care stocks and exchange traded funds. Not all health care investments are as levered to the aging theme as they appear to be at first...

Some thematic exchange traded funds go overlooked despite offering investors exposure to compelling, fast-growing market niches. Such is life for the Global X Internet of Things ETF (NASDAQ: SNSR), but amid broader adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), SNSR is poised to shed its overlooked...

Conventional wisdom holds that high dividend stocks and the related exchange traded funds can be hindered by rising interest rates. That scenario is at play in 2018 as the Global X SuperDividend U.S. ETF (NYSE: DIV) and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index are up an average of 2 percent,...

Global X, the sponsor of scores of industry exchange traded funds, is looking to add its roster with an ETF dedicated to e-commerce. New York-based Global X recently filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch the Global X E-commerce ETF. What Happened The new ETF will...

Several marquee Latin American economies have been affected by electoral politics this year, namely Brazil and Mexico, the region's two largest economies. Mexico recently held national elections and Brazil is slated to do so in October. What's getting lost in the region's electoral...

Global X added to its lineup of income-oriented exchange traded funds Tuesday with the debut of two new products, both of which use the ETF of ETFs structure. The new funds are the Global X TargetIncome 5 ETF (CBOE: TFIV) and the Global X TargetIncome Plus 2 ETF (CBOE: TFLT). What Happened The...