Topic: ETFs

Given tech’s market leadership this year and the emerging comparisons to the crisis of several years ago, we rounded up the 10 best performance tech ETFs over the past three years.

Emerging-market equities have been enjoying a solid rebound from their late 2011 drubbing, but trading’s been choppy lately as investors reconsider key drivers of the rally, from commodities prices to economic conditions in the Euro Zone, U.S. and China.

Though the recent rebound makes current valuations unattractive,  outstanding fundamentals make this group a good medium- and long-term bet.

There may be no better way to appreciate the diversity of exchange traded funds than by looking at the commodities sector of the asset class.  There are more than a 100 ETFs and their cousin, ETNs, or exchange traded notes.

An unpredictable market, rising fuel prices, and growing concern that inflation may trend higher as the economic recovery takes hold. Enter: Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.

If abundance is the enemy of commodity traders, the current landscape is a veritable  minefield.

Clean tech has become a major destination for investors, from venture capital firms to ordinary shareholders. Click ahead to see 10 select, large ETFs with a strong focus on clean-tech holdings.

Bond leader Pimco made its official debut in the exchange-traded fund universe Thursday, with an offering that lets investors looking for a little more flexibility get in on the firm's glossy Total Return Fund.

They're concentrated in a few hot spots and outperforming the broader market.

By putting "hundreds of billions" in currency in circulation, the central banks "can produce reflation—that's why we’re seeing the pop in oil, gold" and other commodities, Pimco's founder told CNBC.

Look for another bullish year in the futures  pits with gold hitting a new high and gasoline coming close to one.

Two big retail players restructure, hard times for other brand names and ETFS become a scapegoat for market volatility.

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants in Japan last March put the brakes on the industry's revival, dimming prospects for the immediate future.