Dion's Friday ETF Winners & Losers

Solar energy producers were the big winners while the natural gas industry continued to decline.

By Don Dion , Mar 26, 2010 3:31 PM EDT

NEW YORK (

) -- Though Friday started strong, the markets gave back those gains in the second half of the day. Solar energy producers pulled off some of the largest gains while the natural gas industry continued on its downward trajectory that began Thursday.

Winners

Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy ETF (TAN) - Get Report 2.6%
iPath Dow Jones-UBS Copper Total Return Subindex ETN (JJC) - Get Report 1.8%
Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX) - Get Report 1.8%
iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index Fund (EWH) - Get Report 1.7%

Losers

United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) - Get Report -1.9%
iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Total Return Subindex ETN (GAZ) - Get Report -1.8%
iPath Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Total Return Subindex ETN (SGG) - Get Report (SGG) -1.5%
iShares MSCI Thailand Investable Market Index Fund (THD) - Get Report -1.2%
First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index ETF (FCG) - Get Report -1.2%

-- Written by Don Dion in Williamstown, Mass.

At the time of publication, Dion was long Market Vectors Russia.

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.