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Claymore's Airline ETF (FAA) Takes Flight
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<> Claymore announced today that it has launched the first exchange-traded product for the global passenger airline industry in the form of an ETF with ticker 'FAA' , which is summarized below by the President of Claymore Securities, Christian Magoon, below:
“Passenger airlines make up the vital networks by which the world connects itself, and we are happy to be the first ETF provider to offer investors access to a portfolio of some of the most actively traded global passenger airline stocks,” . . . “FAA is an industry first < />< />< />< />< />< />...
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Global Air Transport Index: LUV is Lagging
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(closed on 01/26/09)
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The accompanying table [click to enlarge] includes statistics for the 58 component companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Air Transport Index, which are listed in descending order by market cap. The index is dominated by passenger airlines, but also contains air freight companies such as Atlas Air (AAWW) and helicopter services companies such as Bristow (BRS).
Over the past year, the index declined by 47.6%, compared to a 28% loss for the iShares Dow Transports (IYT), 41% loss for the S&P 500 SPD...
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New Airline ETF: Clear Skies or Turbulence Ahead?
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(closed on 12/23/08)
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Tom Lydon of ETF Trends reported today that Claymore is expected to launch the first Airline ETF in early 2009, which will contain 26 passenger airlines with a mix of 70% domestic and 30% global companies. It remains to be seen if the Airline ETF will experience a similar fate as recently launched, narrow-focused transport funds, including the Claymore/Delta Global Shipping (SEA) and PowerShares Global Progressive Transport (PTRP) – which were launched this past fall and have attracted $9.6M and $1.8M in ne< />< /><><><>< />< />< />< /><><>...
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Stock Ideas from ETF Innovators New Indexes
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(closed on 12/10/08)
<> Below is a list of 14 stock opportunities from various ETF Innovators [ETFI] indexes, which includes a database of over 1,000 companies. The companies are chosen across a full spectrum of market cap and risk level from a variety of industry groups.
From the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex , I believe Altria Group (MO) and Pfizer (PFE) are defensive dividend, value buys at current levels as each company currently pays a dividend of $1.28 per share annually – resulting in historically high dividend yields for bot<>< />< /><><><>< />< /><><><>< />< /><><>< />< /><><>< />< /><><>< />< /><><><><><><>< />< /><><><><>< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< />...
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Airlines Ascend on Relief from High Fuel Costs
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(closed on 12/07/08)
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Airline companies have taken flight recently in spite of the October stock market sell-off, tremendous volatility, and global economic slowdown as crashing crude oil prices lower the cost of jet fuel for the industry. The accompanying table includes statistics for the ETFI Global Airline Index and short ETF proposal, which has still lost over 60% of its market value in the past year for the 30 lowest rated companies despite the recent bounce. Both the 30 lowest rated and all 50 companies have fared worse than the ...
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A Mixed Trade in Transports
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(closed on 10/03/08)
<> Transports have provided a safe haven for investors with the iShares Dow Transports (IYT) registering a small gain over the past year in spite of a meltdown in financials and sharp losses in the overall market averages. The gains in the Dow Transport ETF were largely the result of strong performance by the top four U.S.-based railroads by market cap which I wrote about yesterday as a bullish trade, accounting for over 30% of the stock holdings for IYT.
As evidence of increased commercial interest and product developme...
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Sell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market
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Investors are getting bearish these days, which comes as a surprise to me, since I'm used to being in the minority. I was a bear when I first took the leap from mutual funds and started trading stocks in 1999, and am a bear still. I wish I'd turned bullish for a couple of years at what I consider to be the large bear market recovery of 2003-2006, but I didn't. However, since I was (and still am) bullish on commodities since around the same time frame, I can't complain about my returns over the period. <>This spring, I was more bearish than usual, which is why I brought you my id...
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Southwest: Still Smarter than All the Other Airlines
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5/30 - "Every year, it's the same story. Southwest Airlines (LUV) hedges against high oil prices and the other airlines bemoan that they should have done the same (some also go bankrupt)...this year they hedged 70% of their fuel costs at $51/barrel."
"Many analysts see Southwest as the only airline likely to show a profit this year. Airline analyst Terry Trippler goes one step further and has a dire forecast for the end of 2008:
'[Southwest] may be the only one left standing.'
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Other airlines' bankruptcies aren't harmful to Southwest
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There's a common misperception that when large carriers go bankrupt, they emerge stronger due to better leverage with employee compensation and lower debt levels. This is used to explain why LUV has been a lackluster performer for years. This is simply not true. LUV's problem hasn't been Continental emerging from bankruptcy lean and mean, its problem has been other low-cost carriers imitating its model in cities Southwest hasn't already entered-- namely Airtran, ATA, Frontier, and JetBlue. <> So while there may be a bunch of bankruptcies of major airlines, this won't deter South...
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Airlines Stand to Profit from Your $600 Rebate Check
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4/2 - "I have had some clients ask me, what industry I think will benefit from the $600 rebate checks that are due to be sent out as part of the U.S. economic stimulus package. I think airlines will benefit, especially lower cost carriers like Southwest (NYSE: LUV) and Jet Blue (NASDAQ: JBLU)."
"Because we aren't talking about flying around the world or across the Atlantic for that measure, trips to Las Vegas or Orlando, for example, will fit the family, and of course people need a way to get to these destinations, so that's how the airlines become interesting."
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Southwest Holding its Ground
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3/19 - "Despite the attention focused on an ongoing investigation of its maintenance practices, Southwest (LUV - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) appears well-positioned to face the airline industry's twin problems of rising oil prices and potentially slackening demand.
While Southwest has long been buoyed by an industry-leading fuel hedging program, CFO Laura Wright said Tuesday that "based on market prices today, our 2008 fuel hedge is the best hedge position we have ever had."
"Like other airlines, Southwest continues to see strong demand. In January and February, load factors were the seco...
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The Airline Sector is Doomed
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JPMorgan slashed ratings on the key stocks airline companies yesterday and the stocks fell like a rock. Jet Fuel has increased 24.2% in the last month and 67.9% in the last year, so it's time to short the industry and long the few stocks that will survive.
JPMorgan analyst Jaime Baker cut his ratings on seven major airline stocks, blaming uncertainty over the outcome of the proposed Delta-Northwest Airlines combination and forecasting major losses amid fears of a recession.
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