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Michael Johnston: Direxion, one of the largest issuers of leveraged exchange-traded funds, will make significant changes to ten of its products next week. The Direxion ETFs currently offering 2x and -2x exposure to their underlying index Read more…
INDL, INDZ, NUGT, NYSE:BRIL, NYSE:BRIS, NYSE:DUST, NYSE:GASL, NYSE:GASX
Joseph Hogue: Hyper-inflation in Venezuela reached 26.9% for the year to October against a rate of 29.1% in 2010. Price controls took effect on November 22 as the government tries to slow the country’s fastest multi-year inflation spike on record — and there are rumors of nationalization for local units Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Legendary investor Jim Rogers is short equities and long precious metals and commodities, the wisdom of which is certainly reflected in the depressed price of the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund (NYSEARCA:VWO). Read more…
I never thought I would ever say this but (three deep breaths).. Hillary Clinton has done a great job as Secretary of State, shifting American attention and resources from the Mideast to the booming Asia-Pacific region. You can profit by following this strategic shift in U.S. diplomacy, so let’s look at Read more…
Michael Johnston: Last week was a slow period for U.S. markets, with exchanges taking some down time for the Thanksgiving holiday. With investors returning from the long weekend away, the upcoming week has historically been a busy one; there is additional data to digest, especially since international Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: The global contagion is spreading so quickly, it could strike the United States before yearend. It’s the same contagion that began over two years ago in Greece … that hit Ireland and Portugal last year … that slammed into Italy last month … and is now striking down a fifth country: Read more…
There’s more information coming out to give more credence to the talk that global wealth and growth will stem from emerging rather mature markets for the next few years. Morgan Stanley is reporting that emerging-market stocks may rise Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Thus far in 2011 the overall stock market movement has been much different from what we had in 2010. This year we have seen nothing but sideways to lower prices with wild price swings on a day to day basis. There just has not been any really solid trends to take advantage of this year. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: These days, high-yielding investments are a must-have for investors. It’s nonnegotiable. This market is simply too volatile to be taking long shots. You have to be prepared for the next potential market dip, and that means having a steady stream of “bonus” cash coming in on a regular Read more…
S&P futures are up more than 30 handles this morning in sharp contrast to the heavy selling we have seen for the last two weeks. The catalyst for the big up open is optimism based on new proposals to contain the Europe’s debt crisis and a strong start to the US Christmas shopping season. Stocks reached extremely Read more…
After showing early signs of promise on Friday’s holiday shortened session, stocks slid listlessly into the close, as all five major indices closed lower. After being up as much as 0.7% on the session the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) plunged to close down almost 0.8%. The small-cap Russell 2000 Read more…
Michael Johnston: ETFs have made great progress in simplifying the investing processing; with more than 1,300 exchange-traded products covering just about every asset class, major world economy, Read more…
Jack Crooks: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” — Lao Tzu Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Gold gave us a breakdown sell signal last week in the form of broken daily support in the context of an intraday Rounded Reversal price pattern. Read more…
Dian L. Chu: The Euro crisis is getting deeper into the uncharted territory with bond yields surging across Europe on Friday Nov. 25, after Fitch Ratings cut Portugal’s debt rating to “junk” status. Read more…
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