A popular exchange traded fund that uses complex derivatives to track oil is being investigated by U.S. regulators over whether its risks were properly disclosed to investors, scrutiny triggered by crude’s historic slump during the coronavirus crisis, said three people familiar with the matter.

The Federal Reserve’s weekly balance sheet update showed its holdings of exchange-traded funds continued to grow over the past week, while also signaling that a lending program for states and municipalities would soon be operational.

BlackRock is starting a fund targeting some of the shortest-dated Treasuries.

The largest homebuilder ETF surged to pre-crisis levels on data showing a surprise increase in sales of new houses last month.

Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss why he is bullish on Canadian big banks and why he thinks a stock-picking approach for the S&P 500 is key right now.

Did the United States Oil Fund help break the oil market? Worries about the ETF’s size and complexity were years in the making.

The figures were revealed in the central bank’s weekly balance sheet update, which also showed that total assets rose to a new record of US$6.93 trillion in the week through May 13.

Investors are continuing to pour cash into gold exchange-traded funds, with 2020 inflows already exceeding any full year on record even as stocks post their biggest earnings-season rally in six years.

After years of rapid growth, the exchange-traded fund universe is shrinking.