Dion's Weekly ETF Winners and Losers

Stock quotes in this article: ICF , AIG , VNQ , TBT , FXY  

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here's a look at my ETF winners and losers for the week.

Winners

iShares FTSE/NAREIT Industrial/Office (FIO Quote) +19.0%

iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors(ICF Quote) +17.8%

iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT North America(IFNA Quote) +16.0%

SPDR DJ Real Estate(RWR Quote) +17.1%

iShares DJ U.S. Real Estate (IYR Quote) +15.6%

Vanguard REIT(VNQ Quote) +16.8%

SPDR KBW Bank(KBE Quote) +12.1%

iShares DJ U.S. Financial Services(IYG Quote) +10.0%

Vanguard Financials(VFH Quote) +10.1%

iShares DJ U.S. Regional Banks(IAT Quote) +10.8%

A violent rally in the riskiest ETFs left the REIT and financial sectors much higher this week. With no apparent catalyst except for short-covering, it's far from certain that this rally can last, but it would be bullish for the overall market if it continued into next week. AIG(AIG Quote) was the poster-child for this week's rally -- it gained more than 100%.

ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury(TBT Quote) +8.6%

Treasuries trended lower as the stock market rallied this week. Also, better employment numbers on Friday caused a sell-off in bonds.

Losers

iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury(TLT Quote) -4.6%

The flip side of the gains in TBT is losses in TLT. Economically, the bonds to watch are the 10-year notes, which correlate to mortgage interest rates. Rates are now approaching the June highs that triggered a month long pullback in the stock market.

Claymore/AlphaShares China Real Estate (TAO Quote) -5.8%

China Construction Bank said it would reduce lending by 70% in the second half of the year. Liquidity fueled twin bubbles in property and equity in China, and without it, prices will trend sideways or down.

CurrencyShares Japanese Yen(FXY Quote) -3.0%

The dollar rallied along with the stock market on Friday -- something that does not happen often. Japanese yen behaved as expected and moved inversely to the S&P 500 Index. The uncharacteristic divergence caused the FXY to drop more than 2% Friday.

-- Written by Don Dion in Williamstown, Mass.

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At the time of publication, Dion owned iShares DJ U.S. Real Estate.

Don Dion is president and founder of Dion Money Management, a fee-based investment advisory firm to affluent individuals, families and nonprofit organizations, where he is responsible for setting investment policy, creating custom portfolios and overseeing the performance of client accounts. Founded in 1996 and based in Williamstown, Mass., Dion Money Management manages assets for clients in 49 states and 11 countries. Dion is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and Maine and has more than 25 years' experience working in the financial markets, having founded and run two publicly traded companies before establishing Dion Money Management.

Dion also is publisher of the Fidelity Independent Adviser family of newsletters, which provides to a broad range of investors his commentary on the financial markets, with a specific emphasis on mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. With more than 100,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 29 other countries, Fidelity Independent Adviser publishes six monthly newsletters and three weekly newsletters. Its flagship publication, Fidelity Independent Adviser, has been published monthly for 11 years and reaches 40,000 subscribers.

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