Hello and welcome to CNBC. com. I'm Frank Holland, anchor of Worldwide Exchange.We are talking the ETF market with Sylvia Jablonsky of Defiance ETF. Sylvia, thank you for joining us. >> Thanks for having me, Frank.>> All right, let's just talk uh a little bit broadly, very quickly about the ETF market specifically this week. Um, what action have you seen. >> Yeah, there's been a lot of flows into ETFs this week and and really, you know, in the first quarter.So you've seen about 10 billion into crypto, anoth ...

Why don't we just take a quick quick like temperature check, I guess. How are retail traders doing this week compared to uh not this week, excuse me, this year compared to the S&P. No, absolutely.Um they're doing pretty great. I think uh Main Street is leading Wall Street right now, just recently, just this week, I think the uh based on our estimations, we see that retail investors have pulled ahead in the aggregate when we look at the performance of the portfolio. They've just pulled ahead of the NASDAQ.So ...

LET'S CROSS TO MIKE MCKEE. GOOD MORNING. MIKE: IT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GOT A REASONABLY GOOD BUT SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTING RETAIL SALES NUMBER.THAT NUMBER COMES IN AT .5%. LAST MONTH WAS .5% AND THE FORECAST WAS FOR .6%. FOR AUTOS, WE ARE AT .3%, WHICH WOULD -- WHICH IS WHAT WAS FORECAST.THE CONTROL GROUP EVERYBODY CARES ABOUT, OF COURSE, IS UP .5%. SAME AS LAST MONTH. THAT WOULD BE GOOD NEWS.IT SHOWS AMERICANS ARE SPENDING. I'M SAYING GOOD NEWS AND THE MARKETS PROBABLY ARE NOT LIKING IT. IMPORT PRICES COME UP .4% ...

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strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management, and Phillips, chief investment officer of the Americas at Morningstar Wealth. Gentlemen good morning. Philip, I'm going to start off with you.What do you make of these big buys into United that are are pushing, you know, the Dow up. I think the real question here is this a sign that at least big investors believe that the health care trade is bottomed and there's upside from here. >> Yeah.I'm not surprised that Warren Buffett would move in that direction. If you l ...

You said Ethereum is basically a giant tech company except it doesn't have a CEO, office or a board and in that way it's quite different from Bitcoin. What do you mean by that. Bitcoin came along to reinvent money and that's what it is and that's pretty much all it is which and I not minimized it.That's a very big thing but Ethereum can do a ton more. So people can come to this platform with all kinds of ideas. They can invent you know new versions of money markets. They can invent new entertainment compani ...

I mean, not everything is California, but we've seen just some horror stories about trying to rebuild in the Palisades and and permitting and, you know, you just mentioned uh regulatory issues. It's obviously based on on states or or or more local, but is that add into the the the issue with trying to to loosen things up. I are young people ever going to be able to buy a home, Ivy.Well, I think it starts with also land prices and right now builders are renegotiating uh in some cases with their land bankers, ...

All right, welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. We're tracking ETF net flows that are now over $727 billion year to date. We're also tracking the moves above and below the 30-day moving averages for the popular index funds, the SPY and the Triple Q's.This week, for the most part, investors moving away from the MAG 7 heavy ETFs. The ARC Innovation Fund uh seeing the top inflows this week as investors look for gains in tech outside of the MAG 7 again as the major indices hit record highs. two Vanguard bond foc ...

Welcome back. Dozens of Texas Democrats are preparing to return to the state after temporarily blocking Republicanled redistricting efforts. This comes as the Texas House Speaker is expected to adjourn the first legislative special session later today.In a statement yesterday, state representative Gene Woo, who leads the Texas House Democrats, said they would start returning if that happens. who added that the group is ready to take this fight to the courts. Governor Greg Abbott has said he will immediately ...

Who does Trump have? Who does Trump have who's a foreign policy thinker uh of caliber who can um help him navigate uh this difficult pass passage? >> So I I think Trump would say that he he is his own uh foreign policy expert that he's um he he knows what what he's doing. Um there's been interesting evidence recently that um uh Vice President JD Vance is playing a greater role in shaping these negotiations. He's developed a close relationship it said with his British counterpart David Lami spent time with h ...