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Michael Johnston: A growing number of financial advisors are using exchange-traded funds to achieve international equity exposure for their clients, embracing funds that offer access to both developed and international market beyond the U.S. This should hardly be surprising Read more…
Brian Sylvester: As the market sloshes around, gold is searching for its identity. It has played currency hedge and equity adeptly at different times this year. While other investors wade through the confusion, Brian Ostroff, managing director of Montreal-based Windermere Read more…
In trading on Wednesday, the Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF (NYSEArca:EAPS) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 16.57% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
Jonathan Yates: George Soros has been buying SPDR Gold Trust, the exchange-traded fund for gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) and selling Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE:POT) and Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL), definite indicators on his view of global growth. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Exchange-traded products have become the preferred instrument for many investors looking to add core, as well as tactical, commodities exposure to their portfolios. The “toolbox” continues to expand as investors have multiple options available to them, with some funds focusing in on a specific Read more…
No matter what your perspective is there’s no denying we are in the midst of a strong broad-based stock rally fueled by Read more…
Karen Roche: Amid a chorus of gold mining pundits yelling for investors to snap up cheap gold equities is Ian McAvity, a 50-year veteran of the markets, telling investors to wait. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, McAvity, who produces Deliberations on World Markets, explains why historical Read more…
Elliott Gue: The S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) posted a near-record gain in October, as investors reacted with relief to the news that EU leaders devised a plan to leverage the European Financial Stabilization Facility (EFSF). Read more…
State Street will begin trading its new “SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Treasury ETF” (NYSEArca:SST) Thursday, December 1, 2011. The SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Treasury ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Europe has been in the spotlight throughout the last several months as the continent has fought an increasingly desperate battle to ward off a wave of sovereign debt defaults that could ultimately lead to the end of the euro. While much of the attention–particularly from international investors Read more…
UBS Investment Bank announced that today is the first day of trading on the NYSE Arca for the following two new ETRACS Exchange Traded Notes (“ETNs”) linked to the daily performance of The Fisher-Gartman Risk Index (the “Index”): Read more…
State Street will begin trading its new “SPDR Barclays Capital Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF” (NYSEArca:FLRN) Thursday, December 1, 2011. The SPDR Barclays Capital Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that Read more…
Tony Daltorio: Beijing acknowledges that a break-up of the euro zone would be a disaster, but the price on a Chinese-backed rescue may be higher than what Brussels is willing to pay. Around the recent Understanding China Policy Summit, Chinese officials said the money is there to bail out European Read more…
David Zeiler: With credit drying up across Europe we may finally see the Eurozone experience its “Lehman moment” – a replay investment banking collapse that triggered the 2008 financial crisis. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets were mixed on Tuesday as tensions remain high with investors awaiting for a concrete plan of action from Euro zone leaders. On the home front, U.S. consumer confidence came in better-than-expected, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher by 0.28% for the day Read more…
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