ByROB WHERRY
Market Wrap-Up
A few surprises greeted traders Monday morning. The soap opera between
Microsoft
Yahoo
turnwhen the software giant and the search engine firm said they were both going to start talking once again and maybe even reach some kind of a deal. This comes on the heels of Carl Icahn announcing he had bought over 50 million shares of the company.
Amazon.com
bullishcall on the stock from an analyst at
Goldman Sachs
Winners
Energy ETFs of all kinds ran higher Monday. The
ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas
Market Vectors Nuclear Energy
Exelon
The Internet HOLDRS, a fund that owns both Yahoo and Amazon, gained 1%.
Losers
After hitting record highs the last few weeks, natural gas has recently started to slide. The
United States Natural Gas ETF
It was also a disappointing day for housing ETFs. The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction fund dropped 3%. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF decreased 2.3%.
Tuesday's Notebook
Earnings
: AutoZone, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Medtronic, Phillips-Van Heusen, Saks, Staples, Target
Economic Data
: Chain Store Sales (7:45 a.m.), Producer Price Index (8:30 a.m.), Chicago Fed Activity Index (8:30 a.m.), Retail Sales (8:55 a.m.), Consumer Confidence (5 p.m.)
Quick Take
A look at how the industry's most popular ETFs did on Monday.
10 Largest ETFs | |||||
| Symbol | Net Assets | Price | 52 Week High | 52 Week Low | Volume |
75,056 | 142.95 | 156.39 | 127.71 | 160,350,289 | |
47,363 | 78.23 | 85.64 | 67.18 | 7,119,598 | |
26,329 | 155.3 | 165.39 | 117.49 | 14,721,066 | |
NA | 89.43 | 99.81 | 63.55 | 5,929,841 | |
19,029 | 143.09 | 156.65 | 127.94 | 2,190,158 | |
17,729 | 49.63 | 55.03 | 41.17 | 131,909,736 | |
13,447 | 59.86 | 63.64 | 52.79 | 576,633 | |
9,296 | 83.1 | 84.49 | 79.64 | 168,649 | |
10,450 | 142.08 | 155.31 | 126.28 | 175,774 | |
8,843 | 78.57 | 89.77 | 70.41 | 778,957 | |



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