ByROB WHERRY
Market Wrap-Up
Oil jumped to another high Tuesday to over $129 per barrel as an OPEC official reportedly said crude output would not be increased before the group meets in September. Also proving disappointing for stocks was a Labor Department report that showed food and energy prices went higher in April. Meanwhile,
Home Depot
Target
Winners
Oil's spike Tuesday helped a wide range of energy ETFs post gains. The
United States Oil ETF
PowerShares DB Energy
Losers
Despite a Capitol Hill plan to shore up around $300 billion in home loans, traders still sold off housing ETFs Tuesday. Concerns about the state of the typical consumer, rising inflation, an analyst downgrade and Home Depot's quarterly results caused a wide selloff in many prominent home-builder stocks for the second straight day.
IShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction
SPDR S&P Homebuilders
Financials also took a dive as prominent analysts and investors were quoted on just how long the credit crunch would last (a while, says the consensus). The Financials Select SPDR ETF decreased 2.9%.
Tuesday's Industry Headlines
Launching Pad
: State Street announced the beginning of trading for the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Small Cap fund on the American Stock Exchange. The ETF tracks an index of 1,600 companies in 26 countries that have a market capitalization of less than $2 billion. It joins seven other SPDR funds that focus on growing economies around the world.
Next Week's Notebook
Earnings
: BJ's Wholesale, Brown Show Company, Charming Shoppes, Computer Sciences Corp., Eaton Vance, Hot Topic, Limited Brands, Perry Ellis, PetSmart, Possis Medical, Ross Stores, Talbots, Tween Brands
Economic Data: Mortgage Refinancing (7 a.m.), FOMC Minutes (2 p.m.)
Quick Take
A look at how the industry's most popular ETFs did on Tuesday.
10 Largest ETFs | |||||
| Symbol | Net Assets | Price | 52 Week High | 52 Week Low | Volume |
75,056 | 141.89 | 156.39 | 127.71 | 173,111,509 | |
47,363 | 77.48 | 85.64 | 67.18 | 11,086,856 | |
26,329 | 152.38 | 165.39 | 117.49 | 14,938,299 | |
NA | 90.9 | 99.81 | 63.55 | 10,674,613 | |
19,029 | 141.81 | 156.65 | 127.94 | 4,244,942 | |
17,729 | 49.27 | 55.03 | 41.17 | 135,336,067 | |
13,447 | 59.41 | 63.64 | 52.79 | 5,944,012 | |
9,296 | 83.22 | 84.49 | 79.64 | 462,525 | |
10,450 | 141.05 | 155.31 | 126.28 | 550,163 | |
8,843 | 77.74 | 89.77 | 70.41 | 2,062,260 | |



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