COMEX gold futures shed 0.14% to $1,725.90 while COMEX silver futures lost 0.46% to $33.282. The heavily traded SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSE: GLD) fell 0.38% to $167.37. Long-term Treasuries opened the session lower, but finished near the unchanged mark. ...

The iShares funds are bought and sold like common stocks on securities exchanges. The iShares funds are attractive to many individual and institutional investors and financial intermediaries because of their relative low cost, tax efficiency and...

As we said, no sport in the U.S. is as tied to its corporate sponsors as NASCAR is. Put another way, the ease by which NASCAR teams can acquire sponsors is one of the most unheralded economic indicators out there. Seriously. iShares Dow Jones...

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Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market’s total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purchased shares of the iShares...

The Bloomberg China-US 55, an index of the most-traded Chinese stocks in the U.S. , dropped 0.3 percent to 108.75 by 1:45 p.m. in New York. The iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund, the biggest Chinese exchange-traded fund in the U.S. , slipped 0.1 percent...