Monday's ETF Winners & Losers
Updated from 12:17 p.m. EDT with new stock prices.
Energy-related exchange-traded funds were the best performers of Monday's session, as oil prices rose past $85 a barrel for the first time ever.
Crude has already been hovering around its all-time high, and news of tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq has been supporting prices in recent days. Oil was jumping $1.45 to $85.14 a barrel.
The
Ultra Oil & Gas ProShares
(DIG) - Get Report
added $2.65, or 2.26%, to $119.97. The
United States Oil
(USO) - Get Report
was gaining $1.93, or 2.98%, to $65.93. The
iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index
(OIL) - Get Report
was up $1.41, or 2.98%, to $48.77.
The
United States Natural Gas
(UNG) - Get Report
ETF was also advancing as natural gas prices jumped 35 cents to $7.32 per million British thermal units. Recently, the ETF was up $2.54, or 6.52%, to $41.45.
Not surprisingly, homebuilders were among the worst decliners to start the week. Among individual names,
Hovnanian
(HOV) - Get Report
,
Toll Brothers
(TOL) - Get Report
,
Beazer Homes
(BZH) - Get Report
,
Ryland
(RYL)
,
D.R. Horton
(DHI) - Get Report
and
Standard Pacific
(SPF)
dropped at least 2.5% each.
The
SPDR S&P Homebuilders
(XHB) - Get Report
was losing 81 cents, or 3.52%, to $22.18. The
iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction
(ITB) - Get Report
slid 87 cents, or 4.01%, to $20.85.
Bundled securities tracking financials were also under pressure following a weak earnings report from
Citigroup
(C) - Get Report
. Despite tempering expectations two weeks ago with an earnings preannouncement, Citi was still a drag on the financial sector after it said third-quarter earnings were down 57% from a year ago. Shares of Citi were down 3.41%.
The
Ultra Financials ProShares
(UYG) - Get Report
slumped $2.14, or 3.52%, to $58.63. The
Financial Select Sector SPDR
(XLF) - Get Report
was off 82 cents, or 2.31%, to $34.72. The
iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Sector
(IYF) - Get Report
was down $2.37, or 2.09%, to $111.19.
Retail ETFs also lost ground.
Wal-Mart
(WMT) - Get Report
,
Lowe's
(LOW) - Get Report
,
Home Depot
(HD) - Get Report
,
Target
(TGT) - Get Report
and
Amazon.com
(AMZN) - Get Report
were all lower.
The
SPDR S&P Retail
(XRT) - Get Report
shed $1.05, or 2.59%, to $39.50. The
PowerShares Dynamic Retail
(PMR) - Get Report
was lower by 37 cents, or 2.03%, to $17.90. The
Retail HOLDRs
(RTH) - Get Report
sank $1.25, or 1.22%, to $100.85.
Internet-related ETFs were affected by a 2.02% loss in shares of
BEA Systems
(BEAS)
. On Friday, BEA soared 38% after rejecting a takeover bid from
Oracle
(ORCL) - Get Report
, saying the proposed deal undervalued the company. Recently, though, BEA gave back more than 2%.
Among other Internet-related names,
E*Trade Financial
(ETFC) - Get Report
,
Yahoo!
(YHOO)
,
RealNetworks
(RNWK) - Get Report
and
eBay
(EBAY) - Get Report
slid 2% or more.
The
Internet Infrastructure HOLDRs
(IIH)
ETF was losing 13 cents, or 2.22%, to $5.72. The
Internet HOLDRs
(HHH)
was down $1.28, or 1.90%, to $66.05.