John Townsend: Trying to make complete sense of what is going on in the markets right now is nearly impossible, at least for me. But I do envision ‘things on the horizon’ that could well become reality and I dare say they are quite contrary to what appears to be true at the moment. Read more…
NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GLD, SLV, TLO, TMV, URE
George Maniere: Well it looks like an agreement has been reached and all that is left is to cross the T’s and dot the I’s. For those of you that have been reading my writings, you know that I have written that once there was some sort of agreement on the debt ceiling we will get a short term relief Read more…
NYSE:AGQ, PSLV, SLV, ZSL
Dian L. Chu: With a stalemate heading into the weekend, the debt drama of the United States is going down to the wire, and when the clock strikes twelve midnight on August 2 (countdown clock at our homepage), the world’s largest economy could be looking at an unprecedented technical default. Read more…
NYSE:GLD, SLV, TBT, TLT
Was it just a couple of weeks ago that the market was shooting upward and all was right with the world? Putting it mildly, it appears we’ve done a bit of an about-face. Read more…
SPY
Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, is pleased to announce that the following Guggenheim Funds Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETFs”) have declared distributions. The table below summarizes the distribution for each Fund. Read more…
NYSE:BSCB, NYSE:BSCC, NYSE:BSCD, NYSE:BSCE, NYSE:BSCF, NYSE:BSCG, NYSE:BSCH, NYSE:BSJC, NYSE:BSJD, NYSE:BSJE, NYSE:BSJF
The Market Vectors ETF Trust announced regular monthly distributions today for its five municipal bond ETFs, Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF, Market Vectors Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF and Market Vectors LatAm Aggregate Bond ETF. Read more…
ITM, MLN, NYSE:BONO, NYSE:EMLC, NYSE:FLTR, NYSE:HYD, PRB, SMB
Bryan Rich: Without question, the sovereign debt crisis is in full swing … It is unsustainable debt that is threatening to break up the 12-year-old European Monetary Union. And it is unsustainable debt that is threatening default and downgrade to the most ironclad credit in the world: The credit of Read more…
SPY, TLT, UUP
George Maniere: Before I begin I want to say to my readers that I believe our founding fathers believed that serving in the government was a privilege not a profession. Sadly, when I look at our government I see people in elected office that by any measure have no practical experiences in life. Read more…
NYSE:GLD, SLV
Michael Johnston: WisdomTree, fresh off its move from the Pink Sheets to the NASDAQ, announced net income of $0.7 million for the second quarter of 2011 on record assets under management (AUM) of nearly $13 billion. WisdomTree’s AUM more than doubled from the same period a year Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Kevin Feldman: Who is buying gold and silver? Over the past year, I’ve often been asked this question by journalists covering the popularity of gold and silver ETFs. Read more…
IAU, NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GLD, SLV
Sy Harding: If the Fed could stop the business cycle from taking place we would have at least had fewer recessions, not more. If the Fed could rescue the market from periodic corrections and bear markets we wouldn’t still be having them on the same historical schedule, indicated by 30 bear Read more…
NYSE:DIA, SDS, SPY, TBT, TLT
Jared Cummans: As the ETF industry has maintained its strong growth, investors have grown increasingly comfortable with establishing exposure to various markets utilizing the exchange-traded structure. Now, with 1,300+ funds in the space, there is an ETF for almost any investment Read more…
NYSE:ECNS, NYSE:FXI, RSP, SPY, VFH, XLF
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)*, the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today released a new report titled, 2011 Mid Year SPDR® ETF Outlook, which details the developments that shaped the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) industry’s growth during the Read more…
IWM, SPY
Thomas Carreno: You have probably heard the expression ‘Buy the rumor and sell the news’ ? Well that strategy works very well when you are looking to go long a particular stock on some forward looking news. Read more…
SDS, SH, SPY, SSO
Raghu Gullapalli: If you are not aware of the all consuming political debate about the U.S debt ceiling that has consumed the country, then you’ve more than likely been living in a cave. Our distinguished representatives have debated the possibility of increasing the national debt and Read more…
SPY, VXX
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