Thursday's ETF with Unusual Volume: SPHQ
ETF Channel Staff - Thursday, September 18, 3:11 PMThe PowerShares S&P 500 High Quality Portfolio ETF (SPHQ) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 169,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 46,000. Shares of SPHQ were up about 0.3% on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Thursday were General Electric (GE), trading up about 1% with over 16.0 million shares changing hands so far this session, and Microsoft (MSFT), up about 0.2% on volume of over 14.7 million shares. DuPont (DD) is the component faring the best Thursday, higher by about 2.8% on the day, while Wisconsin Energy (WEC) is lagging other components of the PowerShares S&P 500 High Quality Portfolio ETF, trading lower by about 1.7%.