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The Guiliano Law Firm Announces Filing of Securities Arbitration Claims Before FINRA

April 28th, 2011

The Guiliano Law Firm, P.C., has announced the filing of securities arbitration claims before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) on behalf of investors suffering losses in Inverse Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Investing: Have Small Caps Peaked? (IWM)

April 28th, 2011

Ian Wyatt:  The rise for small cap stocks, as measured by the Russell 2000 small cap index, have handily outpaced gains of large cap indices by over 50 percent since the March 2009 lows. Read more…

IWM

Vladimir Putin Puts A New Squeeze On Russian Oil (RSX)

April 28th, 2011

Vladimir Putin is calling for higher export taxes on Russian oil and is unlikely to give up enough in terms of extraction taxes to truly compensate. Read more…

RSX

Jim Cramer Calls The United States Oil ETF “Toxic” (USO)

April 28th, 2011

United States Oil ETF (NYSE:USO) is among the “most toxic” exchange-traded funds today, Cramer said Tuesday. The USO tracks the price of West Texas Read more…

USO, XLE

Investing: What We Learned From Ben Bernanke’s Speech

April 28th, 2011

Sara Nunnally:  Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held his first press conference after a Federal Reserve meeting… ever. Traditionally, the Fed releases minutes to the meeting about three weeks later. Read more…

NYSE:AGQ, SLV, ZSL

Peter Schiff Says Bernanke Is Lying; Bet Against the Fed And The Dollar (IAU, GLD, SLV, UDN)

April 28th, 2011

GDP is falling, unemployment is rising, inflation is up and the dollar is down — and Ben Bernanke is talking his way through it in a way that history has not previously Read more…

IAU, NYSE:GLD, SLV, UDN

ETFs Offer Eight Ways To Weight The Same Stocks

April 28th, 2011

Ron Rowland:  ETFs are a big help in many ways. One of the top benefits is that you are relieved from the task of deciding which individual stocks to buy out of the thousands available. Read more…

NYSE:DLN, NYSE:EPS, NYSE:FEX, PJF, PRF, RSP, RWL, SPY

Palladium: This White Metal That Needs to Be on Your Radar (PALL, PPLT. PGM)

April 28th, 2011

If you’ve been long palladium, you know much of the ride over the last two years has been remarkable. The white metal gained 350 percent in value between January 2009 and February 2011. It practically doubled in price in 2010 alone – the best performance of any commodity (followed by silver Read more…

PALL, PGM, PPLT, PTD, PTM

Van Eck Files For “Market Vectors Business Development Company/Specialty Finance ETF”

April 28th, 2011

Van Eck has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Market Vectors Business Development Company/Specialty Finance ETF.” The Market Vectors Business Development Company/Specialty Finance ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield Read more…

NEW FILING

UBS Investment Bank Announces Exchange Traded Note Linked to the Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index

April 28th, 2011

UBS Investment Bank announced today that it has added to its suite of E-TRACS Exchange Traded Notes (“ETNs”) with a first-to-market E-TRACS linked to the Wells Fargo Business Development Company (“BDC”) Index, offering diversified exposure to BDCs with the convenience of an Read more…

NYSE:BDCS

The S&P 500 ETF Continues To Blast Higher (SPY)

April 28th, 2011

Thomas Carreno:   The S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) continues its typical bullish tendencies since BestOnlineTrades decided to re instate the BOT Long signal on 4/18 and 4/19, 2011.  Read more…

SPY

Investors: Did Ben Bernanke Hint At QE3 During Historic Fed Press Conference?

April 28th, 2011

Keith Fitz-Gerald:  While the first press conference ever held by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke grabbed most of the headlines this afternoon (Wednesday), it was the post-meeting Read more…

NYSE:GLD, SLV

IMF Forecast: Can China Really Overtake The U.S. Economy By 2016? (EWW, FXP)

April 28th, 2011

Martin Hutchinson:  According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “World Economic Outlook,” China’s output will surpass that of the United States in 2016 – only five years from now. Read more…

NYSE:EWW, NYSE:FXP

Packaged Managed Futures Aren’t – Mostly (DBC, LSC, ALT)

April 28th, 2011

Brad Zigler:  While commodity prices soar, some investors—remembering similar run-ups in 2008—grow more and more uncomfortable about the prospect of another blowoff top. Read more…

LSC, NYSE:ALT, NYSE:DBC

Thursday, April 28, 2011 ETF To Watch: Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE)

April 28th, 2011

With oil prices once again surging, investors are looking to some of the world’s largest oil companies to help power portfolios gains. Now that earnings season is upon us, many are looking Read more…

VDE

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