Friday's ETF with Unusual Volume: IXP
ETF Channel Staff - Friday, August 1, 3:59 PMThe iShares Global Telecom ETF (IXP) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 544,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 35,000. Shares of IXP were down about 0.8% on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Friday were AT&T (T), trading down about 0.7% with over 11.4 million shares changing hands so far this session, and Verizon Communications (VZ), off about 0.9% on volume of over 9.6 million shares. Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) is the component faring the best Friday, up by about 1% on the day, while Frontier Communications (FTR) is lagging other components of the iShares Global Telecom ETF, trading lower by about 1.7%.