Tom Lydon, editor of ETF Trends, says that fears of an economic slowdown won't diminish the world's need for oil, and reduced spare capacity and current pricing hints at a potential run-up in prices, which is why he made the Market Vectors Oil Services ...

By Benzinga.com. The pace of new ETF issuance has slowed in 2012, but several new funds might be worth considering according to S&P Capital IQ, which published a note that examined ETFs less than three-years-old.

The pace of new ETF issuance has slowed in 2012, but several new funds might be worth considering according to S&P Capital IQ, which published a note that examined ETFs less than three-years-old.

The stock market continued its overall trendless environment that it has been under since January, last week, with the Nasdaq finishing up just 0.58% for the week.

Equity markets ended the session in green territory yesterday as investors focused on better-than-expected earnings from IBM instead of worrisome data on the home front.

Van Eck's Market Vectors unit, the fifth-largest U.S. ETF issuer, announced the Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) and the Market Vectors Gaming ETF (NYSE: BJK) will begin tracking new indexes on or about September 21, 2012.

By The ETF Professor, Benzinga Staff Writer. With Dow component Alcoa's (AA) earnings report after the bell on Monday, another earnings season has officially arrived.

This morning, all of the leading oil services have begun to decline lower on the session. The important Market Vectors Oil Services ETF (NYSEARCA:OIH) is trading lower by 0.18 cents to $35.83 a share.

NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- Market Vectors Oil Services ETF options contracts experienced a new 90-day record for call contracts where a total of 23311 call contracts were traded in the busy trading session.

Many energy ETFs are in negative territory for 2012 and lagging the overall market on oil weakness. However, the sector funds are off to a strong start for the back half of the year and are poised to benefit from a rebound in energy prices.