Investing in solar and alternative energy stocks comes with many risks. We have often referred to many of these companies as being essentially nothing more than very leveraged speculative oil investments because when energy prices are low most forms of alternative energy are not competitive on a cost structure. The drop of $2.62 per barrel to $66.93 in NYMEX WTI Crude is causing havoc in some of the mid-cap and speculative oils stocks. It is also hitting shares of First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP), SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWRA), LDK Solar Co.Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), and Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENER). This is also seen directly in the ETFs of Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (NYSE: TAN) and PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy (NYSE: PBW). Speculative stocks like Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) look even worse
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Beginning this month, we’re adding sector exchange traded funds (ETFs) to our Blue Chip Growth investing arsenal. Buying specific sector ETFs will allow us to capitalize on [an] Advanced Sector Alert when an industry is just breaking out, helping us profit much earlier in the market cycle.
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NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, NYSE Arca, today began trading the MSCI All Peru Capped ETF, sponsored by Barclays Global Investors, under the ticker symbol “EPU”.
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LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) – Gold hit its lowest level since mid May on Monday, breaking below $920 per ounce as the dollar lengthened broad gains with investors looking to a Federal Reserve meeting for clues about U.S. economic health.
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Barclays‘ sale of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) to money manager BlackRock generated a lot of questions about what this means for the future of the iShares group, ETF investors and the ETF industry as a whole.
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The week ahead will be one for monitoring a slow warm-up in the economic climate, a more rapid heating up in geopolitical risks, and a look forward to a better earnings season than the last two
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With crude oil down nearly 4% to under $67.50 today, alternative energy stocks are getting hammered. Solar stocks, as measured by the Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index ETF (NYSE: TAN), seem to be leading the group lower and are down nearly 6%.
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Gulf States ETFs, which had been enjoying sustained rallies in recent months, paused last week as turmoil in Iran intensified and tremendous uncertainty looming over the entire region. While few ETFs on the market maintain any direct holdings in Iranian companies, the fallout over presidential elections held earlier this month threatens to destabilize the entire region, halting a rally that had seen these funds focused on other Gulf states cross into the black for the year.
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Today we will show a way you can follow another very important asset class as a co-indicator for the turns in the S&P 500. We have looked before at the co-movement of Treasury bonds, currency and U.S. indexes, especially the benchmark S&P 500.
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Global asset manager Invesco is considering bringing some of its PowerShares suite of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to the Australian market, Invesco Australia chief executive Mick O’Brien told InvestorDaily.
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Today we will show a way you can follow another very important asset class as a co-indicator for the turns in the S&P 500. We have looked before at the co-movement of Treasury bonds, currency and U.S. indexes, especially the benchmark S&P 500.
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SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – Is the worst over? It’s an open-ended question that solicits many diverse opinions but none that yields any clear answers. And no matter how good the thesis sounds about which way the market is headed, the future is forever unknowable. What does this mean for your investment portfolio?
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We won’t go as far as to say that the DJIA and the S&P 500 are directly correlated even after the recent rebalance. However, there is one common notion on today’s weakness that has brought up yet another serious chart alert. Both the DJIA and S&P 500 are down and the alerts came up regarding the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. This is being confirmed in both key market ETF’s in the charts of the DIAMONDS Trust (NYSE: DIA) and the SPDRs (NYSE: SPY).
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Direxion an ETF sponsor that offers 3X leveraged index funds, announced today that they will execute a reverse split for an ETF. This will be one of the first of it’s kind for an ETF. Leveraged ETF’s have become popular in the market as it allows investors to use leverage on a fund without margin. Read more…
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Below are two ETF’s related to the oil market sector – one is capitalization weighted (IYE) and the other is Equal weighted (RYE).
You can see from three stocks that are common to BOTH ETF’s that their percentages in the respective ETF’s are very different and you will also note that the performance of the cap weighted ETF – IYE was SIGNIFICANTLY better (almost 5 times better) since the beginning of 2009.
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