June ended with a bang as the u.s. Supreme Court upheld "Obamacare" and pushed sectors into positive territory. Health care saw the largest bump, with the broad-based Health Care Select SPDR (NYSE Arca: SLV) posting a 5.69 percent return by month ...

It may not feel like a turnaround is underway in the housing market, but the numbers are beginning to back up the theory. The most recent S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index showed that all 20 of the cities tracked had gains in May.

Standard & Poor's Case Shiller reported its Home Price Index for the month of May Tuesday morning. Housing prices were indicated higher for the fourth consecutive month and the popular press hyped the news as a wonderful sign for real estate.

Major ETFs lost ground in quiet trade Tuesday as the market waits for the Federal Reserve to finish a two-day meeting in which it's expected to announce new stimulus measures to boost the economy.

RBS, LYG, ING, DB, BCS, CS, C, MS, With so much hanging in the balance, every week has been a big one for the market. Last week, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, made a major splash for bulls with a big statement backing the euro.

After two days of strong buying, stocks took a break on Monday, as they closed modestly lower on light trade. All of the major indices ended the session approximately in the bottom third of their respective ranges.

Homebuilder stocks are moving lower early Monday amid a mostly flat equities market. SPDR S&P Homebuilders (NYSE: XHB) is lower by 1.4 percent.

NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- SPDR S&P Homebuilders options contracts experienced a new 90-day record for call contracts where a total of 3239 call contracts were traded in the busy trading session.

Investors poured $578.6 million into the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca:SPY) on Thursday,July 26, as financial markets rebounded on comments by the European central bank that it would do what was necessary to defend the existence of the euro.

There are a lot of exchange-traded funds on the market and many of those funds are similar in makeup, but most retail or part-time investors are aware of the more popular names like GLD, QQQ, XLF and UNG.