Home Guides & Resources chevron_right Economy and the Markets Today’s Market Takeaways: March 5, 2021 Published March 5, 2021 In our latest installment in Today’s Market Takeaways, Vice President Steve Johnson discusses the trend of money flowing into new-economy stocksA financial instrument giving the holder a proportion of the ownership and earnings of a company. via ETFsA type of security which allows investors to indirectly invest in an underlying basket of financial instruments (these may include stocks, bonds, commodities or other types of instruments). Shares in an ETF are publicly traded on an exchange, and the price of an ETF’s shares will fluctuate throughout the trading day (traditional mutual funds trade only once a day). For example, one popular ETF tracks the companies in the S&P 500, so buying a share of the ETF gets an investor exposure to all 500 companies in the index. like ARKK and gives reasons for recent volatilityA measure of how large the changes in an asset’s price are. The more volatile an asset, the more likely that its price will experience sharp rises and steep drops over time. The more volatile an asset is, the riskier it is to invest in.. Tags: coronavirusvideo