Tuesday’s ETF To Watch: Pharmaceutical HOLDR (PPH)

The past few weeks have been focused on one of the biggest debt crises in U.S. history, as lawmakers sought to find a way through a $14.3 trillion pile of debt. While major equities have suffered their worst stretch in over a year, this quarter’s earnings season has taken a back seat to the debt drama, as numerous bellwethers have seemingly reported under the radar. Typically, earnings season takes the reins of the market for a few weeks once a quarter, as the performance and outlook of multinational firms is often a telling sign of individual industries as well as the economy overall. While the debt ceiling may be making all of the headlines, it is still important for investors to focus on the earnings reports from some of these industry leaders, to get a sense for how the latter half of 2011 will play out [see also ETF Insider: [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: Three ETFs To Watch This Week: VDE, PPH, FXE ETF Insider: Equities Poised To Pop Three ETFs To Watch This Week: IYW, PPH, TLT Three ETFs To Watch This Week: IYG, PPH, ITA ETF Winners and Losers From The Second Week Of Earnings Season