Excluding autos and aircraft, orders fell 3.7percentthethe steepest drop since 1992, when the department began tracking sector-specific changes.
A total of 106 E.T.F.'s trade on major exchanges, ranging from Spiders, as those that track the S.& P. 500 are known, to those tracking sectors like chemicals or real estate or national stock indexes from major markets like Japan to smaller ones like Belgium.
ETFs are designed to track sector or country indices.
The land use stocks of commercial, industrial, and public works are the capital inputs to the "Economic: Goods and Services" sector (Fig. 3, bottom left) that tracks sector productivity.
Most ETFs are listed on the Amex and allow investors to track sectors such as financial services, health care, real estate, technology, telecommunications, utilities, natural resources, semiconductor, software, biotech and industrial.
Resources: Private sector funding is becoming more common: Devex Impact is one community that's tracking private sector partnerships in the developing world, and USAid even has a Private Capital Group for Africa that's focused on building these investments.
Just take a look at a couple of the big exchange-traded funds tracking the sector.
Year to date, the Technology SPDR, an exchange-traded fund tracking the sector, is up 33%, more than double the gains in the S&P 500.
I also spoke to a bunch of investors, entrepreneurs and several others tracking the sector to understand if the Indian e-commerce is indeed as hot as it's being made out to be.
