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A Technology ETF For Cyclical Sector Rotation
Tom Lydon • Wed, May 8 • 2 Comments
Google, Intel Earnings Bring iShares Dow Jones U.S. Tech ETF Into Focus
Jared Cummans • Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Why Investors Should Beware Tech’s Strong 4Q
Edward Harrison • Fri, Nov 19, 2010 • 4 Comments
iShares US Tech Sector ETF vs. Stock Picking
Carl T. Delfeld • Thu, Feb 21, 2008 • 1 Comment
In Search of Low (or Negative) Correlation Between Asset Returns
Suna Reyent • Wed, Mar 7, 2007 • 20 Comments
Seeing Little Positive In Techland (ETF: IYW)
Roger Nusbaum • Tue, Feb 7, 2006

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Identifying The Best Technology ETFs
John Dowdee • Sun, Jun 16 • 6 Comments
Cyclical Sector ETFs Can Perform In A Rising Rate Environment
Tom Lydon • Thu, Jun 13
Patient Bulls Are Getting Their Buying Opportunity
Scott Martindale • Thu, Jun 13
Danger Zone For This Week: 'Passive' Investors
David Trainer • Wed, Jun 12 • 6 Comments
Summer Stocks
Bespoke Investment Group • Tue, Jun 11
6 Investing Implications Of Friday's Jobs Report
Russ Koesterich • Mon, Jun 10 • 3 Comments
Bulls Need To Shake Off The 'June Gloom'
Scott Martindale • Thu, Jun 6 • 1 Comment
Breadth Hanging In There
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, Jun 5
'Index' Label Myths
David Trainer • Tue, Jun 4 • 1 Comment
Sector Relative Strength
Bespoke Investment Group • Fri, May 31
Technology Loses Share, Financials And Healthcare Gain
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, May 22 • 1 Comment
Putting Cash To Work: 3 Ways To Enter The Market Today
Russ Koesterich • Tue, May 21 • 1 Comment
Investors Stay Focused On Their Silver Linings Playbook
Scott Martindale • Thu, May 16 • 3 Comments
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
How To Take Advantage Of The Great (Sector) Rotation
Russ Koesterich • Mon, May 13 • 4 Comments
S&P 500 Sector Breadth Levels
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 3 Comments
Bulls Start Their Move Into Cyclicals
Scott Martindale • Thu, May 9
Sector Relative Strength By Market Cap
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Slow U.S. Growth Won't Stall Stocks
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S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
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Mark Hulbert: Why it pays to sell in May

at MarketWatch.com (Apr 5, 2013)
Trouble for Tech ETFs

at Fox Business (Oct 19, 2012)
Outside the Box: Stock investors: Don’t fight QE3 in Q4

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 5, 2012)
ETFs Take a Bite Out of Apple

at Fox Business (Sep 21, 2012)
Are ETFs a Good Way to Join Apple-mania?

at CNBC.com (Mar 22, 2012)
ETF Focus: Apple falls from the ETF tree

at MarketWatch.com (Apr 5, 2011)
John Prestbo's Indexed Investor: Look for Facebook in this Internet ETF

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 15, 2011)
Howard Gold: What comes after Dow 12,000 and S&P 1,300?

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 4, 2011)
Jonathan Burton's Life Savings: Tech and telecom: together but apart

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 8, 2010)
Analyst Watch: Top Trades for the Next Six Months

at CNBC.com (Jul 15, 2010)

IYW vs. ETF Alternatives

IYW Description

The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Technology Sector Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the largest public companies in the technology sector of the U.S. market, as represented by the Dow Jones U.S. Technology Index.
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Sector: Technology

Country: United States

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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Sector ETFs, Technology ETFs
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Wednesday, May 29, 9:11 AM Investors pulled money out of real estate yesterday, with the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate ETF (IYR) losing 4% of its AUM. Notably garnering assets yesterday were the Consumer Staples SPDR (XLP), the MSCI Germany ETF (EWG), and the Dow Jones U.S. Tech ETF (IYW) - each adding nearly 4%. The dip-buyers were out on the MSCI Japan (EWJ) and Japan Hedged Equity (DXJ) funds - they added nearly 2% in AUM. Comment!
Tuesday, May 28, 7:41 AM "Tech (XLK, QQQ) is where cash goes to die," says Bill Smead as research shows massively over-capitalized companies don't perform any better than undercapitalized ones. "There's not enough tension - you don't make very good decisions what to with cash when you've got too much of it - unless you're Warren Buffett." Example #1 is Microsoft (MSFT): "They've probably lost more money in the last 13 years in the online business than any single corporation ... in history." 3 Comments [Tech]
Friday, May 17, 8:13 AM Thomas Lee lifts his year-end S&P 500 (SPY) forecast to 1,715 from 1,580 as the bull has already outrun his expectations. His team sees clues economic performance is picking up, including the outperformance of semiconductors (XSD) vs. transports (IYT), and the steepening of the 10 year/30 year Treasury curve. Risk/reward is particularly appealing in tech (XLK), healthcare (XLV), and financials (XLF). Comment!
Monday, April 29, 12:13 PM "Which has a higher P/E - Procter & Gamble (PG) or Google (GOOG)," asks the WSJ's Tom Lauricella. Enthusiasm for anything with yield has driven the P-E ratios of dividend payers (DVY) like P&G maybe way too high. Techs (XLK) with double-digit earnings growth, no debt, and massive cash balances trade at 12x, says MFS' James Swanson, while a utility (XLU) in Ohio is at 16x. "How far do you go with this game?" "Pretty far," says Templeton's Donald Taylor. "The macro environment (causing this) is not at all likely to change anytime soon." 7 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Friday, April 26, 8:34 AM The beginning of a bigger move? Two of the year's three strongest performing sectors - healthcare (XLV) and consumer staples (XLP) - are down on the week as the three weakest sectors - energy (XLE), materials (XLB), and tech (XLK) - post gains of 3%-4.5%. 2 Comments
Thursday, April 11, 7:03 PM The pace at which new technologies are disrupting companies makes it dangerous to be a value investor, argues VC Ashvin Bachireddy. As mobile devices, cloud software, e-commerce, and much else upends old business models, investing in a BlackBerry or an OfficeMax/Office Depot due to a low P/E can prove painful. "While there may still be opportunities for value investing, you need to be cautious of businesses that appear to be on a slow decline." His remarks seem prescient in light of what happened today to several PC-related names with low multiples. 14 Comments [Tech, Consumer, Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, April 3, 1:58 PM Gartner forecasts global IT spending will grow 4.1% this year to $3.8T; that represents a pickup from 2012's 2.1% growth. Hardware is expected to grow 8% to $718B as mobile strength offsets PC/printer weakness, and enterprise software 6.4% to $297B. Gartner: "The global steady growth rates are a calm ocean that hides turbulent currents beneath ... there are clear winners and losers over the next three to five years, as we see more of a transition from PCs to mobile phones, from servers to storage, from licensed software to cloud, or the shift in voice and data connections from fixed to mobile." Comment! [Tech]
Wednesday, March 27, 12:47 PM "For the 1st time in long time I have begun to short big-cap techs," tweets high-profile tech newsletter writer Fred Hickey. He refers to the market's recent gains as " a dangerous, unsustainable Fed-induced rally." Last month, Hickey offered a downbeat view on tech stocks in Barron's, citing high multiples and weak PC, mobile phone, and enterprise IT demand. 2 Comments [Tech, Quick Ideas]
Tuesday, February 26, 6:55 PM Company-specific risk for tech stocks is at its highest level in 5 years, claims Morgan Stanley's Adam Parker. He thinks this "typically this bodes well for alpha generation in the technology sector," and suggests investors focus on individual equities rather than sector/thematic plays. Meanwhile, Bespoke observes 28 out of 70 S&P 500 tech stocks (40%) now yield more than 2%, giving them a payout above that of 10-year Treasurys. STX tops the list at 4.9%, followed by INTC at 4.35%. 2 Comments [Tech, Quick Ideas]
Tuesday, January 15, 6:39 PM S&P 500 tech companies are expected to report a 1.1% Y/Y drop in Q4 earnings, their first decline since Q3 '09, per Thomson Reuters. A chip industry downturn, weak PC and home electronics sales, and (important given the company's size) Apple's expected EPS decline are all playing a role. Nonetheless, low valuations for many tech names have attracted bargain hunters; Merrill believes tech stocks are collectively undervalued by 32% on a forward P/E basis, and claims every tech industry outside of IT services is trading at a historical discount. 3 Comments [Tech]
Monday, January 14, 9:24 AM "Within tech, we think that prospects of a potential bottoming in consensus estimates are improving ... relative safe haven stocks could be used as a source of funds," writes JPMorgan's Mark Moskowitz, explaining why he's downgrading EMC (EMC -1%) and IBM (IBM -1%) while upgrading H-P (HPQ +1.6%) and Fusion-io (FIO +6.1%). Apple and NetApp are his top large-cap picks, and Fusion-io, which he argues continues to "hold the pole position in server-side data acceleration," is his top small/mid-cap pick. EMC has already seen a raft of negative sell-side notes. Comment! [Tech, Quick Ideas]
Tuesday, January 8, 3:29 PM Vanguard's recent expense reduction means 9 of its 10 sector ETFs are now the cheapest available to U.S. investors. With an annual expense ratio of just 0.14%, VOX, VPU, VCR, VDC, VDE, VHT, VIS, VGT, and VAW stack up favorably vs. the 0.18% charged by State Street's Sector SPDRs (XLU, XLY, XLP, XLE, XLF, XLV, XLK, XLI, XLB and XTL which charges 0.35%) and the 0.47%-0.48% iShares sector ETFs (RXI, KXI, IYE, IYF, IYZ, IYH, IDU, IYW, IYM, IYJ) charge. At 0.19%, Vanguard Financials (VFH) is still slightly more expensive than the Financial SPDR (XLF). 2 Comments
Monday, December 17, 2012, 2:40 PM The tech sector is "trading at a discount to the market for the first time in 20 years," notes Merrill, which advises going overweight on tech stocks (along with energy and industrial names). Barclays portfolio strategist Barry Knapp also sees tech doing well in 2013. More cautious is JPMorgan's Mark Moskowitz, who forecasts 2013 IT spending growth of just 1.7% amidst weak demand for PCs (mobile cannibalization) and servers (the sales lift provided by virtualization is slowing down) (Marc Andreessen) Comment! [Tech, Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 9:34 AM "If (tech's) a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've seen," says Marc Andreessen, speaking at a conference. The current situation is more like a tech depression, he argues, noting tech stocks are trading at the sort of discount to industrials that hasn't been seen since the 1970s. "The public market is trading tech like a steel mill that's about to go bankrupt ... What is going on?" 5 Comments
Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 9:46 AM Divergence in tech land: BAML's weekly check (h/t Raj Dhaliwal) of net buys of technology stocks by client shows the heaviest-ever buying by institutions against nearly the largest-ever selling by private clients. So funds were buying Apple last week as individuals were selling? 3 Comments [Tech]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 3:26 PM Take comfort or get worried, but the tech correction - the XLK is off about 7% since hitting an 11-year high a month ago - is catching the eye of the technicians and trend-followers. Tomi Kilgore says the index is only a hair above its 200-day moving average. Never one to miss a move, Dennis Gartman always pays attention when market leaders "suddenly lose their stripes." Comment! [Quick Ideas, Tech]

Lisa
Why so little investor concern about the riots in Taiwan (EWT TWN TFC)? Firms like TSM are critical to the tech supply chain (XLK IYW SOXX).
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Lisa
After AMZN and MSFT's disappointing results, watch the tech and software ETFs tomorrow -- XLK IYW VGT IPK RYT ROM SWH PSJ and IGV.
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ETFdesk
WaysToPlay: UBS 2010 MARKET OUTLOOK (PragCap) http://bit.ly/6UY7aY $IYW $IYZ $XLE $XLI $XLP #ETF #MKT
12/21/09
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SA Editor Jonathan Liss
The following ETFs have AAPL as a top 10 holding (weight in parenth.): QQQ (14.3%), IYW (9%), IGM (8.1%), XLK (7.7%), VGT (7.3%)
10/19/09
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New WaysToPlay post Consumer-less growth to highlight winning stocks; Tech $IYW, Materials $XLB http://tinyurl.com/ #MKT #ETF
8/20/09
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New WaysToPlay post Consumer-less growth to highlight winning stocks; Tech $IYW, Materials $XLB http://tinyurl.com/ #MKT #ETF
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Alex Martinez
(IYW) and (X) are good trading vehicles with an upward trend!!
6/29/09
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