ETF Trends: International – 8/18/16

ETF Trends: International – 8/18/16

Below is our daily list of the twenty best and twenty worst performing ETFs over the last five trading days. Oil continues to move up as front-month contracts have now rallied 20% from their recent low. Telecoms have gotten absolutely demolished, as well as the USD, while Emerging Markets have given up some of the shine over the last few days. Joining oil on the best performers list was natural gas, energy-related equities, and other EMs like China. It’s also rare to see currency ETFs among the best performers (they aren’t very volatile), but both EUR and CHF have rallied huge versus the dollar over the past week.