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Gold’s weakness carried over from last week as bullion lost further ground to the world’s reserve currencies. Bullion slumped 4.4 percent against the Swiss franc and the euro while giving up 2.8 Read more…
Today’s market has been especially rough for consumer product companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, and Procter & Gamble, which have all sunk on weak guidance thanks Read more…
The market closed higher on Thursday, but volume was off. All five major indices finished in positive territory, with the Nasdaq leading the way. The tech rich index closed the day higher by 0.6%. Read more…
David Fry from ETF Digest interviews Tony Davidow Managing Director, Portfolio Strategist of Rydex to discuss these new equal weight ETFs. Read more…
NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWEF, NYSE:EWEM, NYSE:EWRM, NYSE:FXE, NYSE:FXY, RSP, SPY
The very first short-only actively-managed ETF is being launched by AdvisorShares today, January 27th, and it is called the Active Bear ETF (NYSE:HDGE). HDGE will be the sub-advised by Read more…
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), today announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement for SPDR® ETFs Read more…
“The price of gold has rolled over since our last story about the precious metal on Jan. 7. At the time I wrote about a topping pattern in gold and its proxy, the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD) Read more…
iShares has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “iShares FTSE China A50 Index Fund ETF.” The iShares FTSE China A50 Index Fund (the “Fund”) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the FTSE China A50 Index. As of Read more…
Mumbai remains weak, down another 1.5% overnight, but some interesting technical factors are emerging for Indian stocks. Read more…
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today announced that the SPDR S&P® Transportation ETF (NYSE:XTN), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (NYSE:XTL), and SPDR S&P Healthcare Equipment ETF (NYSE:XHE) began trading on the Read more…
An unexpected specter is haunting the streets throughout the capitals of North Africa and the Middle East. Although revolution has been quelled for many years, dollar devaluation has caused Read more…
David Fry From ETF Digest goes into detail on the Egypt ETF discussing the Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (NYSE:EGPT) in a video. Read more…
Pax World will begin trading its new “Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF” (NYSE:EAPS) Fridayday, January 28, 2011. The Fund seeks investment returns that closely correspond to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI EAFE ESG Index, which is created and maintained by Read more…
Last week I received an e-mail solicitation that was both hilarious and sad. It came from a broker trying to sell municipal bonds from Illinois. He touted them as “investment grade” and was Read more…
In trading on Thursday, the Wireless HOLDRS ETF (AMEX:WMH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.12% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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