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Week Five: Round-up
WealthManagerWeb.com  |   News  |   Podcasts  |   Webinars December 30, 2009

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Kate McBride

Ever Hopeful
As we emerge from a challenging economic crisis, there is reason to hope that changes we will see in this new decade will be good ones… Read More

Forecast for Municipal Debt
  While tax-free municipal debt issuance won't match 2008 levels, it will be higher, and taxable muni issuance will sharply rise in 2010, according to a forecast from SIFMA… Read More
Senate Passes Healthcare Reform 60-39
  The Senate passed historic healthcare legislation–the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–by a 60-39 vote on Christmas Eve, the first Senate vote on the "day before Christmas in more than a century."… Read More
Can a Roadmap Help Wealth Managers?
  Sometimes, even when you know how to do something, a constructive comment from a keen observer can remind you how to do it more efficiently, more easily or productively… Read More

Blog: Managing the Risk

Read Andrew McElwee's newest blog post in Managing the Risk, where he explores the sometimes unusual risks of wealthy clients.

Andrew McElwee

Shop Talk
A luxury car parked in a mall lot is temptation enough for opportunistic crooks. Yet many overloaded shoppers in the midst of an all-day outing will make matters worse by using their car's backseat to store purchases… Read More


Also at WealthManagerWeb.com

ETFs Move Out on the Yield Curve
  BlackRock's iShares has launched two new fixed-income ETFs that will provide a way to allocate portfolio assets to a broad index of longer corporate, U.S. and international bonds… Read More
ETF News: Two New ETFs From Schwab; T. Rowe Price Prepares
  Schwab Investment Management announced December 11 that it has launched two new ETFs to join its four other low-priced ETFs that feature no commissions on trades for Schwab customers… Read More

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All Select Sector SPDRs: Weekly Flows


Source: Select Sector SPDRs

Select Sector SPDRs summary for the short holiday week ended December 24:

The S&P 500 was up 2.18% for the short week; it's up 24.71% year-to-date.

Sector SPDR assets were up, too, by $1.4 billion, or 4.74% for the week.

Shares of Sector SPDRs increased by 45,100,000, or 3.81% shares for the abbreviated week.

Volume was "holiday slow," with 308 million Sector SPDR shares trading last week.

Materials (XLB), up 4.44%, was the best-performing sector, while Utilities (XLU), up 0.41%, was the worst-performing sector.

Sector SPDRs went x-dividend on 12/18.

For more weekly net flows charts for Select Sector SPDRs please click here.

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