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Chris Ciovacco: Our global economy still faces significant balance sheet problems (assets vs. liabilities) at numerous points in the economic food chain. Consumers are still hurting from the reverse wealth effect created by falling asset prices. Numerous countries, including Greece, Spain Read more…
Stocks reversed sharply on Friday as volume increased. Four of the five major indices opened at the highs and closed near session lows. The exception was the small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) which managed to find a bid into the close. However the Russell still closed well within Read more…
John Nyaradi: Major stock market indexes continued to meander between significant support and resistance levels and this, of course, can’t go on forever. Expect a breakout soon, possibly as early as this week, as we reach the end of the quarter and half year mark. Read more…
Alex Strashny: Recommended funds: Biotech (NYSE:IBB) remains our primary recommendation this week. With the +1.68% rise and slightly higher volume over the past week, the expected return is definitely positive and slightly higher. IBB’s risk has decreased over the past week Read more…
Willem_Weytjens: After writing an article about the Platinum-to-Gold ratio, I decided to do more with the excel sheet, like calculating correlations and plotting the price charts for example. Read more…
Ron Rowland: BlackRock (BLK) introduced the iShares Floating Rate Note Fund (NYSE:FLOT) on June 17, 2011. The new ETF seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Barclays Capital US Floating Rate Note < 5 Years Index. Read more…
Bryan Rich: Earlier this year, I wrote a Money and Markets piece titled “Social Unrest Setting the Stage for Sovereign Defaults.” We had already seen overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt, Libya was underway and other Middle East/North Africa flare ups were in the early stages. Read more…
Sy Harding: Where are investors to turn for profits? U.S. and global stock markets are in corrections, producing losses for investors, and they do not look like their declines have ended yet. Read more…
Well this is certainty a very interesting predicament – the Daily Charts of the three major US Equity Indexes are all showing EMA compression. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Many feel the move to open up the strategic petroleum reserve was a sign that U.S. policy makers are out of bullets, but it still creates some trading opportunities. Read more…
Tim Seymour: The world is overly obsessed with the impact that the euro zone’s woes and the end of QE2 will have on growth. In fact it is taken as gospel that the developed world is dead in the water. Read more…
Futures-based investing has long been a popular option for those looking to gain exposure to commodities that were otherwise difficult to reach. But with the introduction of ETFs came increased granularity in this investing segment, as there are now exchange traded products that Read more…
Sumit Roy: Investors add money to commodity ETPs despite continued jitters over the economy. Despite more macroeconomic worries and volatility in financial markets, commodity-related exchange-traded products managed to see a solid net inflow in aggregate last week. Investors added Read more…
Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, is pleased to announce the following Guggenheim Funds Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETFs”) have declared distributions. The table below summarizes the distribution schedule for each fund declaring a distribution. Read more…
In trading on Friday, the C-Tracks Citi Volatility Index TR ETN (NYSE:CVOL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 10.29% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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