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David Zeiler: The presidents of the U.S. Federal Reserve may not have used their knowledge for personal gain, but a look at their assets does show several apparent conflicts of interests. Read more…
Michael Johnston: Interest in gold as a holding within long-term, buy-and-hold portfolios has skyrocketed in recent years, thanks to both the rapid price appreciation of the yellow metal as well as Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: 2012 may turn out to be the year that, when it comes to a close, Americans will feel like they were under the influence of some kind of psychedelic drug. Read more…
In trading on Monday, the db-X MSCI Emerging Markets Curr (NYSEArca:DBEM) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.72% on the day. Also up on the day is the Read more…
Brian Sylvester: The market isn’t rewarding fundamentals just yet for precious metal miners, according to Byron King, editor of Daily Resource Hunter, Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor published by Agora Financial of Baltimore. But in this exclusive interview with The Gold Read more…
Unless you owned defensive stocks, 2012 has been an equal opportunity rally. Tech stocks, financials, cyclical names… just about any asset class that isn’t defensive has seen a sharp move higher this year. Both supporting and belying this observation is the price action in gold, typically Read more…
FocusShares, LLC, announced today that it did not pay a capital gains distribution in 2011 on any of its 15 Focus™ Morningstar exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The funds, which were launched in March 2011, are all U.S. stock funds and have among the lowest expense ratios in their respective categories. Read more…
David Gillie: I started learning about the stock market by building and launching model rockets with my older brother. No matter what the shape and size of the rocket or how big the engine was, we knew it was going to come down. We hoped the parachute would open and it would have a soft landing Read more…
JT McGee: Exchange-traded fund investors use ETFs for any number of reasons. Many use them for their simplicity, others know that low ETF fees bring about higher, long-run returns. What many investors seem to forget, however, are the unique risks that come with underlying portfolios that make up any Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Congressman and presidential candiate Dr. Ron Paul has spent most of his career advocating a return to the gold standard (NYSEArca:GLD). He feels that replacing the yellow metal with paper is the source of many economic woes that returning to gold could fix. There’s just Read more…
Michael Johnston: iShares continued to debut new products at an impressive pace on Friday with the introduction of another India ETF. The new MSCI India ETF (BATS:INDA) will list on the BATS, joining several other iShares funds on the third-largest U.S. exchange. Last month iShares became the first Read more…
Yiannis Mostrous: Colorado-based Molycorp (NYSE:MCP) is the only rare earth oxide (REO) producer in the Western hemisphere and owns the world’s largest, most fully developed rare earth project outside of China (NYSEArca:FXI). Molycorp is a relatively small and specialized mining company that Read more…
Yiannis Mostrous: Emerging market equities (NYSEArca:EEM) had a great run in January, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index gaining 11.2 percent. This performance dovetails with our commentary from mid-December: Read more…
Bryan Rich: Last Friday, in reviewing the charts, directionally it looked like a tough call. My view was, expect some swings (volatility). Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: Gold Stock Trades will not regale you with the growing presence of nuclear facilities throughout the world despite the German (NYSEArca:EWG) and Japanese (NYSEArca:EWJ) negative stance. It is well known that reactors (NYSEArca:NLR) are going to come online in Read more…
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