Dion's Weekly ETF Winners and Losers

The broad materials industry will continue to face pressure as investors remain uncertain about the strength of the global economic recovery.

SPDR S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB) -2.3%

The market is still trying to come to terms with the fact that government-sponsored first-time homebuyer incentive program is no longer available to provide support to the real estate industry.

Investors looking to try their luck with XHB should remain prudent. The economic storms are still raging and real estate will remain a tricky sector to navigate.

At the time of publication, Dion Money Management owned GDX.

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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