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“Experts suggest that investors must have about 10 to 15 percent exposure to the yellow metal either as a physical asset or in the form of a gold ETF. The value of gold ETFs largely depend on how gold prices fluctuate globally. The complexity, complications and fees associated with ETFs Read more…
Is the bull market over for China investors? China’s government has pumped the Chinese economy with stimulus for a positive recovery, but has the ride ended. Chinese markets continue to tumble Read more…
Baker Hughes (BHI) announced a “$5.5 billion cash plus stock acquisition of oilfield services company BJ Services (BJS), which the market is seeing as an act of weakness. Baker Hughes not only provides rotary rigs Read more…
“Several providers of exchange-traded funds have made a big push into fundamental indexing. For example, PowerShares offers a family of funds based on fundamental indexes, led by PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 (PRF) Read more…
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Concerns over the future of the commodity ETFs continue to grow amid news of CFTC investigations. The CFTC is out for blood, needing someone to blame, and commodity ETF’s are their scapegoats. CNBC brought in Read more…
The MacroShares Major Metro Housing exchange-traded products which were launched in June of 2009, let you bet 3X (UMM) the movement of the Case-Shiller index of home prices in ten major U.S. cities or 3X (DMM) the inverse of the index’s movement Read more…
It was no surprise that “Ponzi schemes” or “bullion and currency scams” were on the North American Securities Administrators Association list of the year’s “top 10 investor traps Read more…
Real Estate has been one of the best investments for decades, until the real estate bubble burst. The crash in real estate has tightened lending and put a damper on new home sales Read more…
UBS Investment Research (UBS) downgraded two top agriculture companies Mosaic Co (MOS) and Potash Corp (POT) to Neutral from Buy on Friday. This comes after The Department of Agriculture Read more…
“Barclays Global Investors (BGI) announced that it has temporarily suspended further creation of new shares of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust (GSG). The unexpected move highlights just how far reaching the rapidly changing regulatory environment concerning the management of commodity ETFs Read more…
Bob Pisani, in a recent CNBC segment, looked into the different ways an index can be spliced up by an ETF through weighting methodologies. His example index was the S&P 500, and shows the performance this year based on Read more…
Bloomberg is reporting that the Jefferies Group Inc. is encouraging investors to look to Canadian and London based natural gas ETFs as opposed to US funds. Bloomberg quotes Jafferies as saying, ““The ETFS Natural Gas Fund in Read more…
“The big banks have been ringing the cash register over the past four weeks. The SPDR KBW Bank ETF (KBE), which tracks the performance of the KBW Bank Index, has surged 25% during this timeframe. The banks which were a source of a great deal of volatility in 2008 Read more…
Technology is constantly changing and new innovative ideas come to fruition which changes the market place for consumers. Consumers love to spend on the newest trend which is why technology ETF’s should be in your portfolio Read more…
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“Barclays Global Investors (BGI) said on Wednesday it has no plans to scale back its iShares precious metals exchange-traded products (ETPs) despite worries that U.S. regulators may impose new position limits on commodity futures Read more…
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