The VIX & New ETNs

At MarketWatch, John Spence interviews Journal of Indexes Editor Jim Wiandt about exchange-traded notes in registration that would attempt to track the so-called "Fear Index."

You can read the story here.

Up, Up & Away

Airlines will be the top industry in 2009, Investor's Business Daily reporter Trang Ho quotes an analyst as predicting. 

Along those lines, just in time comes a new Claymore Securities exchange-traded fund, the first to focus on global airlines. 

You can read the story here.

PowerShares Files To Launch Pair Of Active Bond ETFs

Already the sponsor of one of the first active bond ETFs, PowerShares has filed to open two more. Both will focus on mortgage-backed securities and be run by parent Invesco's institutional managers, according to this piece in the Wall Street Journal. 

You can read the story here.