When ETFs Stop Working

The confluence of single-stock ETFs and leverage has reached a fever pitch this year. Products tied to companies like SpaceX, Micron and SK Hynix are proliferating, attracting billions of dollars from traders — and raising concerns they're beginning to influence the very stocks t ...  Show more

Tokenization has been a Wall Street buzzword, only now it's becoming real. Beginning this summer, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation — a little-known utility at the center of the US financial system that processed securities quadrillion in transactions — will begin creat ...  Show more

CNBC's Bob Pisani spoke with Dave Mazza, Head of product at Direxion, Jim Davalos, Research analyst and portfolio manager at Horizon Kinetics and Ben Johnson, Director of global ETF research for Morningstar. Last week was a wild one not only for the U.S. but also Russian stocks.. ...  Show more

CNBC's Bob Pisani spoke with Jan Van Eck, CEO of Vaneck, Matt Bartolini, Head of SPDR Americas Research at State Street Global Advisors and Todd Rosenbluth, Senior Director of ETF and Mutual Fund Research at CFRA. They discussed the fallout from the freshly announced sanctions on ...  Show more

Earlier this year on Odd Lots, we did an episode about Korean structured investment products that were sold to retail investors, whose performance was tied to various market indices around the world. Crucially, those payouts were premised on there not being a major crash in those ...  Show more

Escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine dampened global risk appetite and sent investors scrambling for safe-haven assets yesterday. While European markets ended the day in the red, US equities recovered from earlier losses as the focus turned to Nvidia's earnings repor ...