Mid-Day ETF Market Update: August 27th, 2007

    As of half-way through today's trading, only 4 of 26 categories are trading to the upside, and none trading up more than 1%.  Of those categories that are currently down, utilities, real estate, and energy are seeing the worst losses. 

    The most intraday volatile categories are Russia, China, real estate, and utilities, with China the only one of these trading up. 

    Most liquid at this point are small caps, emerging markets, short, and large caps, though small caps have seen nearly three times the dollar volume as the second most liquid category.

Category % Change % Range $M Traded
Utilities -1.24% 1.57% 123.94
Real Estate -0.79% 1.75% 265.19
Energy -0.72% 1.08% 280.54
Latin America -0.66% 1.22% 28.58
Transports -0.62% 1.08% 11.67
Small Cap -0.59% 0.75% 1530.76
Commodities & Resources -0.54% 1.05% 144.61
Mid Cap -0.52% 0.76% 172.54
Biotech -0.49% 0.77% 49.12
Convertible -0.46% 1.26% 5.81
Retail -0.41% 0.79% 80.48
Large Cap -0.33% 0.52% 436.06
MSCI -0.31% 0.56% 207.85
Japan -0.31% 0.55% 50.94
Currency -0.29% 0.43% 22.81
Dividend -0.28% 0.92% 31.76
Emerging Markets -0.25% 1.09% 654.83
Consumer Goods & Services -0.19% 0.39% 48.57
Healthcare -0.17% 0.40% 16.16
Europe -0.17% 0.92% 31.06
Russia -0.09% 2.13% 3.08
Asia -0.08% 0.93% 31.81
Infrastructure 0.07% 0.85% 1.69
Call/Write 0.39% 0.97% 0.97
China 0.76% 2.00% 337.51
Short 0.86% 1.22% 591.8