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Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Maintain long-term overweight global equities “Why own stocks in the first place?” Many investors are asking this question in light of the long-term stagnation in global equity markets, recent market volatility and the surprising outperformance by bonds in 2011. Read more…
WisdomTree (Nasdaq:WETF), an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) sponsor and asset manager, today announced commission-free online trades for WisdomTree ETFs will be made available to E*TRADE Securities customers, effective immediately. Read more…
Karen Roche: With resource stocks extraordinarily cheap, 321energy.com Founder Bob Moriarty calls them “an opportunity of a lifetime,” in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report. However, investors need to steer clear of the dangers of derivatives. Moriarty explains how the Read more…
Zig Lambo: This year has been difficult and confusing for many investors in the resource sector. Despite that, many junior companies with credible projects have continued to show good progress toward future production. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Dale Mah, equity research Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Bill Gross recently confirmed a bleak outlook for real estate as he predicted that low interest rates would be maintained by the Federal Reserve for “three, four or five years.” He also stated that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England will continue to keep interest rates low, Read more…
Jared Cummans: One of the founding principles of the ETF industry was cost competitiveness; after being charged upwards of 150 basis points for their favorite mutual funds, investors had grown tired of surrendering a substantial portion of their gains to the managers of big name funds. Now, there are Read more…
Jim Trippon: We are living in a binary investment world: risk on or risk off; buy in or sell out; all in or all in cash. The often black and white, yes or no view of investing, which has seen instant judgments made on stocks and whole industry sectors may not be just a tenor of the investing times, but the Read more…
Kerri Shannon: All eyes are on North Korea and its repressed economic system this week after the country announced early Monday that Kim Jong Il, the ruling dictator for 17 years, died Saturday. The political instability to follow Kim Jong Il’s death could ripple through the global economy, weighing on Read more…
To participate in the exchange offers, please contact your financial intermediary; or follow the instructions included in the exchange offer materials. These materials will be mailed to you directly or will be provided by your brokerage firm. If you have not received the exchange offer materials, please contact Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Selling pressures tipped the market south right from the opening bell as ongoing Euro zone woes made way for the bears on Wall Street. Investors’ sentiment declined as worries overseas intensified after ECB President Mario Draghi put a damper on hopes that the central bank would Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: You may be surprised to learn that some of the world’s best investors are buying heavily right now – not because they think we’ve hit a bottom, or even the bottom, but because they’re setting themselves up for the next big run. Read more…
S&P stock futures are more than 1% higher on Tuesday following a sell-off of the same magnitude to start the week yesterday. The focus remains on Europe, where business sentiment unexpectedly rose sharply in the German economy and a better than expected Spanish Read more…
Stocks closed lower on Monday on light trade. Despite posting early gains, all five major indices ended in the red, with higher beta issues leading the decline. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) dropped 1.9% while the S&P MidCap 400 lost 1.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Read more…
Market Vectors will transition six of their ETFs from the Merrill Lynch HOLDRs to Market Vector exchange traded funds, tomorrow December 21st. According to Deutsche Bank, the new ETFs should provide a better representation of 
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