ETF Winners & Losers (June 14, 2007)

Investing

Published: June 14, 2007 4:14 pm

DJIA                   13,553.73; +71.38 (0.53%)….DIAMONDS Trust (DIA) +0.67%
S&P500             1,522.97; +7.30 (0.48%)…SPDRs ‘Spyders’ (SPY) +0.64%
NASDAQ          2,599.41; +17.10 (0.66%)….NASDAQ 100 PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ) +0.66%
10YR-Bond       5.22%; +0.02% ….close ETF iShares Lehman 20+ Year (TLT) -0.25%
NYSE Volume       2,813,638,000
NASDAQ Volume 1,996,214,000

These are not the absolute highest performing ETF’s because some such as the Ultra ETF’s use leverage, but here are the normal unleveraged ET’s that won today:

iShares MSCI Brazil Index                                        (EWZ) +2.76%
iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index                   (FXI) +2.58%
PowerShares Dynamic Aggressive Growth          (PGZ) +2.47%
iPath S&P GSCI Total Return Index ETN                (GSP) +2.37%
iShares Dow Jones US Oil Equipment Index       (IEZ) +2.28%
iShares MSCI South Korea Index                            (EWY) +2.27%
United States Natural Gas                                        (UNG) +2.23%
iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust    (GSG) +2.11%
Claymore/Robeco Developed World Equity          (EEW) +2.10%
Oil Services HOLDRs                                                 (OIH) +2.10%
iShares MSCI South Africa Index                            (EZA) +2.09%

As always, even on a second strong up day there were some losers. We back out the ‘inverse fund’ ETF’s and also the leveraged versions of each. Also, the real estate group was the least impressive and we only included a couple variations to prevent repetition. Here are today’s losers:

DJ Wilshire REIT ETF                                              (RWR) (-1.16%)
iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors                (ICF) (-1.14%)
WisdomTree Japan High-Yielding Equity             (DNL) (-0.94%)
KBW Regional Banking ETF                                     (KRE) (-0.78%)
Shares S&P Global Healthcare                               (IXJ) (0.58%)
iShares MSCI Malaysia Index                                  (EWM) (0.42%)

Jon C. Ogg
June 14, 2007

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