American equity markets rose modestly across the board in Wednesday trading as a solid figure from the ADP employment report helped to buoy stocks. The Dow rose by 71 points on the day Read more…
NYSE:DBB, NYSE:EWZ
In an attempt to address the rising costs of fuel and crude oil, President Obama stated that it is vital for the US to embark on a long-term plan to tap domestic resources and soften its dependency on Read more…
IEO, NLR, NYSE:GEX, OIH
Look at Japan and you will find mostly bombed-out exporter charts where there were supply disruptions, but some stocks look ready to make new post-quake highs. Read more…
NYSE:FXY
In trading on Wednesday, the iShares MSCI ACWI ex US Utilities Sector Index Fund ETF (AMEX:AXUT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.92% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
NYSE:AXIT, NYSE:AXUT, NYSE:CVOL, NYSE:EIRL, NYSE:GAZ, VIXY
Kenny Feng is the President & CEO of Alerian, a leader of MLP-market intelligence that provides benchmarks, data sets, and analytics that are used extensively by a range of stakeholders such as Read more…
MLPG, MLPI, MLPL, NYSE:AMJ, NYSE:AMLP
Global X Funds, the New York based provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced today that its Board of Trustees has approved a 2 for 1 split Read more…
NYSE:GXG
Mike Norman (Norman): Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com. I’m Mike Norman, your host. My guest today is Malcolm Gissen. He’s the co-manager of the Encompass Read more…
NYSE:GLD
Actively-managed ETFs are now close to completing the 3rd year of their existence. The oldest active ETFs on the market, a set of four funds that Invesco PowerShares launched in April 2008, Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Martin Hutchinson: If the record $81.7 billion in profit that the U.S. Federal Reserve reported for 2010 was turned over to taxpayers directly, there’s no doubt it would have some “stimulus” benefit Read more…
JNK, LQD, NYSE:AGG, NYSE:BND, NYSE:HYG, TBT
I have talked about inflation, especially rising food prices, several times this year, and while I don’t want to sound like a broken record, the evidence continues to mount AND the opportunity to make Read more…
JJA, JJG, MOO, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:GRU, RJA
India’s economy is growing at the second largest pace amongst the world’s major nations and is likely to continue to do so as the nation is abundant with an intelligent and young labor force. Read more…
INXX
India’s Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund has launched the MOSt Shares Nasdaq 100. The MOSt Shares Nasdaq 100 ETF is India’s 1st US equity based ETF, which seeks to track the Nasdaq-100 index. Nitin Read more…
QQQ, QQQQ
A few days after Global X filed details on a proposed Global Auto ETF, First Trust made an SEC filing that shed light on plans for a similar product. The First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund Read more…
NASDAQ:FONE
Over the weekend, I was going over some of my old posts and realized that most, if not all of my ETF missives to this point have been geared toward investors that probably already have some Read more…
NYSE:DIA, NYSE:DXD, NYSE:FAS, NYSE:FAZ, SPY, TNA, TZA, VXX
Catastrophic events in Japan left the world in shock, and brought an economic powerhouse to a temporary standstill seems to have had little impact on US equities as the immediate drama dies Read more…
NYSE:DIA, VIG
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