BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : APRIL 24, 2000 ISSUE
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Exchange-Traded Funds Spiders The most actively traded in this series is the S&P 500 fund, ticker symbol (SPY). Newer spin-offs include an S&P 400 MidCap fund (MDY) and nine sector Spiders ranging from Technology to Utilities. Cubes The Nasdaq 100, (QQQ), focuses on the 100 largest and most tradable of those stocks, which account for most of the index's returns. Diamonds An ETF based on the Dow Jones industrial average. It gets its name from the ticker symbol (DIA). Webs World Equity Benchmark Shares let you play foreign markets. There are 17 WEBS, each tracking a single country index. All three use letter ticker symbols starting with EW. DATA: BW _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS Funds That Trade Like Stocks TABLE: Exchange-Traded Funds TABLE: Inside an ETF Portfolio INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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