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Best/Worst Weekly ETF Returns

Best/Worst Weekly ETF Returns: GGGG Adds 10.5%
By Olivier Ludwig | June 08, 2012

Related ETFs: VIXY / GGGG / BARL / VXAA / GREK

Gold regained some of its attractiveness last week, putting a number of precious metals mining ETFs on IndexUniverse's top 10 performers list.

The Global X Pure Gold Miners ETF (NYSEArca: GGGG) was the best-performing among them, jumping 10.5 percent in the five trading days ended June 7, according to data compiled by IndexUniverse.

Gold regained some of its cache as a hedge against inflation amid talk early in the week that the Federal Reserve might be compelled to implement a new round of quantitative easing in the wake of the weaker-than-expected May jobs report. The U.S. Department of Labor said the U.S. economy created 69,000 jobs in May—far fewer than the 175,000 jobs economists said they expected in a survey conducted by Bloomberg News.

The top-performing exchange-traded product was the Etracs 1-Month S&P 500 VIX Futures ETN (NYSEArca: VXAA). It jumped 11.1 percent.

Worst Weekly Performers

A number of other VIX-related ETNs were among the worst-performing ETPs last week, including the ProShares VIX Short Term ETF (NYSEArca: VIXY), which fell 6.78 percent.

The worst-performing ETP was the Morgan Stanley S&P 500 Oil Hedged ETN (NYSEArca: BARL), which tumbled 9.27 percent.

A mainstay of the bottom 10 performers list, the Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSEArca: GREK), was there again this past week, with a loss of 5.75 percent.

 

Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and <1,000 Shares Traded

Ticker Name Weekly Performance Weekly Volume AUM ($, mm)
VXAA ETRACS 1-Month S&P 500 VIX Futures ETN 11.10% 2,700 5.28
GGGG Global X PURE Gold Miners 10.50% 103,196 4.36
GDXJ Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners 7.92% 31,853,223 2,244.79
SIL Global X Silver Miners 7.51% 1,348,943 291.62
NIB iPath Dow Jones-UBS Cocoa Total Return ETN 7.05% 83,638 23.88
EWP iShares MSCI Spain 7.02% 5,989,496 154.91
EUFN iShares MSCI-Europe Financials 6.47% 348,383 20.14
SLVP iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners 6.43% 44,390 1.96
GLDX Global X Gold Explorers 6.39% 453,689 30.90
PLTM First Trust ISE Global Platinum 6.18% 46,929 8.57

Bottom 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and <1,000 Shares Traded

Ticker Name Weekly Performance Weekly Volume AUM ($, mm)
BARL Morgan Stanley S&P 500 Oil Hedged ETN -9.27% 5,200 9.20
EIPO ETRACS Next Generation Internet ETN -8.25% 1,100 5.65
GWO ELEMENTS Credit Suisse Global Warming ETN -7.14% 4,200 2.60
VIXY ProShares VIX Short-Term -6.78% 4,743,911 147.10
VIIX VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN -6.75% 3,117,207 31.28
VXX iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN -6.53% 289,765,088 1,646.70
UNG United States Natural Gas -5.84% 45,671,841 891.77
GREK Global X FTSE Greece 20 -5.75% 138,569 3.61
CVOL C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi Volatility -5.41% 175,088 10.40
FAA Guggenheim Airline -5.27% 56,168 16.12

Disclaimer: All data as of 6 a.m. Eastern time the date the article is published. Data is believed to be accurate; however, transient market data is often subject to subsequent revision and correction by the exchanges.