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Jared Cummans: With 2011 nearly in the books, the ETF industry has set yet another record for product development and innovation. More than 300 exchange-traded products debuted this year, Read more…
JT Long: China (NYSEARCA:FXI) has become the $5.88 trillion question in the world financial equation for 2012. In an attempt to gauge the direction of this economic elephant, Cambridge House Read more…
John Townsend: Today, something significant happened in the gold market…. and it’s not good news for the bulls, at least short term. Read more…
Michael Johnston: ETFs initially became popular with advisors and individual investors as tools for harnessing beta, allowing low cost ownership of broad equity markets through a vehicle that provided transparency, intraday liquidity, and potential tax efficiency to boot. The “first generation” of Read more…
Willem Weytjens: In this article I will show you why it’s wise to be careful with leveraged products, such as Proshares Ultra ETF’s and Direxion 3x ETF etc… as they might KILL your portfolio! Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: Rarely has such technical destruction been visited on stalwart sectors such as gold, silver and the mining stocks (NYSEARCA:GDX). The silver charts reveal technical damage not seen since the destruction of 1984. It can only be conjecture that can account for a once in a generation Read more…
Sara Nunnally: Farm life for me isn’t the same as farm life for actual farmers. I’m working on a small garden… But for me, it’s about having all my animals together — dogs, horses, cats — on a peaceful plot of land here in the Midwest. Read more…
Jared Cummans: As we enter the home stretch of 2011, many investors are taking the time to look back on a hectic year to re-evaluate their underlying holdings and put themselves in the best position for 2012. As far as commodities are concerned, it was a pretty rough year. Though the first few months Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: We are on the cusp of a new year, and this is the time that we take a look at those brave (or foolhardy) financial analysts who take out their crystal ball and predict where precious metal prices will go in 2012. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: As dire as economic conditions appear in Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) due to the debt crisis, the tactics of the European Central Bank in financing rescue packages has actually made them worse. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Light trading volumes and sparse activity on the product development front are to be expected in the final week of what has shaped out to be one of the most volatile years in financial history. Industry giant iShares has laid down the groundwork for three actively-managed equity ETFs Read more…
David Zeiler: Government’s ability to fix the economy’s problems may be limited, but it at least should try not to make matters worse. Unfortunately – but not surprisingly – many of the things that happened in Washington this year did the U.S. economy more harm than good. Read more…
Peter Krauth: Despite a pullback from its all-time high of $1,923 an ounce a few months ago, gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) is still trading in the $1,700 range. In fact, the glittering metal has gained 22% in the past 12 months. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets snapped back and recovered losses from yesterday as investors were in a cheerful buying mood following better-than-expected housing data on the home front. Wall Street started and ended the day in green territory with industrial stocks leading the way higher followed Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: The tears stream from the faces of the silver bugs. Boo-hoo! Where’s my $100 silver? Toughen up! Better yet, go buy a 10-year Treasury, then. I hear Greek 1-year paper is even better, paying out 150 percent. What a deal! Read more…
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