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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have grown increasingly popular with retail investors during the last decade. Securities regulators are concerned that investors may not understand how these complex investment products work or the potential risks they may face. Read more…
J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) announced today that it has been appointed by PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company LLC), a leading global investment management firm, to offer five of its U.S.-registered ETFs on the international segment of the Mexican Stock Exchange, Bolsa Mexicana de Read more…
Brinker Capital, a leading independent investment management firm, announced today the addition of seven exchange-traded fund (ETF) strategies to its Defined Contribution retirement plan offering. The move provides plan participants with additional means of achieving their financial goals by Read more…
Sara Nunnally: Apologies for the short article today, folks. I’m feeling a bit under the weather, but I promised you more info on two commodity investments — the PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF (NYSE:DBA) and the iPath Dow Jones UBS Grains ETN (NYSE:JJG). Read more…
Dian L. Chu: World crude oil market has been rocked by the surprise announcement of the International Energy Agency (IEA) to release 60 million barrels of oil from member countries’ strategic petroleum reserves (SPR). The US led the effort by chipping in 50% of the planned release, Read more…
Innovation has become a hallmark of the ETF industry in recent years, as new and existing issuers alike have have rolled out increasingly complex and creative products that have further expanded the universe of asset classes and investment strategies available through exchange-traded products. Read more…
Kerri Shannon: China has started diversifying away from the U.S. dollar (NYSE:UUP), yet another sign that it’s time to invest in the yuan. Read more…
Jon D. Markman: Major U.S. stocks were under pressure during most of the past week as new worries about Eurozone sovereign debt and a disastrous press conference by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke corroded confidence. Read more…
The final full week of June was certainly a rocky period to be in the equity markets, as quickly changing expectations led to huge increases in volatility and large movements in commodity markets. Meanwhile, in Europe, worries over Greece temporarily subsided as the Prime Minister of Read more…
Here are three easy ways to beat the market: Deception, irrelevance and bad math. Perhaps some explanation is in order… It’s a well-known fact that three out of four investment professionals fail to beat an unmanaged index each year. Over the long term, the percentage is much greater. Yet everywhere you go, investment advisors claim they’re generating superior results. It’s a bit confounding. So let’s take a Read more…
Toby Connor: Today I am going to teach you a little about cycles. First a little background information. I’m going to be discussing almost exclusively the intermediate degree cycle. Now to start let me correct some misconceptions. Cycles are virtually worthless for timing tops. Cycles are Read more…
They tried to push the S&P’s down off the open, but again that $126.60 area held yet again on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY). The stocks that lead last Thursday’s reversal all were too strong to let the market break down. These stocks are acting well early. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), SINA Corporation (NASDAQ:SINA), Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) and Google Read more…
Another 48 hour pass is up and the markets will have to get back to figuring out its next move. Developments globally are quickly coming to a crescendo. The interesting thing is MENA which dominated the headlines for weeks has been kicked off the front page, as the European debt crisis has reignited as expected. Just for the sake of honarary mention, Syrian troops have amassed along the Lebanese border. Read more…
Jordan Roy-Byrne: I must confess I am a gold (NYSE:GLD) bug both philosophically and in terms of investing. We are entering a golden age for Gold (NYSE:IAU) as the bull market is destined to reach amazing heights and real and honest money reemerges as legal tender against fiat currencies that Read more…
John Daly: Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspain and Central Asian energy reserves as the new “Great Game, except this time around, Russia is facing the U.s. rather than the British empire. Read more…
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