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Przemyslaw Radomski: Why anyone would rather stuff their Christmas stockings with fiat currency than with physical gold is beyond understanding. To us “dash for cash” seems rash. Read more…
Kevin Grewal: As confidence in a sustainable economic recovery continues to remain wary, unemployment remains high, the equity markets remain volatile and consumer demand grows at a snail’s pace, high yield corporate bonds, and the exchange traded funds that track them, could pose an Read more…
Rudy Martin: The European tightening may be setting the ground for a rebound in financial stocks in the latter part of 2012. The markets had been anticipating a liquidity-driven surge in the financial stocks that does not appear to be forthcoming. Instead, the Europeans seem to be headed for a more Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: An industry veteran and a newcomer have ramped up activity on the product development front during an otherwise quiet week before the holiday weekend. ProShares filed with the SEC for a lineup of new equity ETFs that are calibrated to deliver a specific level of volatility depending on Read more…
Kevin Feldman: Exchange traded product assets totaled $1.54 trillion globally at the end of November, according to BlackRock’s latest ETF Landscape piece. That figure was slightly below where it ended October, but it was up about 4 percent year-to-date in terms of total asset levels. Read more…
Sara Nunnally: The nation’s real estate market is anything but stable. Just when we think prices are starting to climb, Washington throws a curveball. When I’m not traveling, I spend most of my time writing and researching the markets from my farm here in Wisconsin, but yesterday, I drove into the Read more…
iShares has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “iShares Strategic Beta U.S. Large Cap Fund.” The iShares Strategic Beta U.S. Large Cap Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital appreciation. They did not Read more…
iShares has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “iShares Strategic Beta Developed International Small Cap Fund.” The iShares Strategic Beta Developed International Small Cap Fund (the “Fund”) seeks Read more…
Michael Johnston: Odds are that 2011 is a year many investors will be eager to forget. Ongoing uncertainty over Europe, combined with a frustrating employment situation stateside and even weakness among emerging markets has put many core asset classes in the red for the year. Most equity ETFs Read more…
iShares has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “iShares Strategic Beta U.S. Small Cap Fund.” The iShares Strategic Beta U.S. Small Cap Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital appreciation. They did not Read more…
Richard Rittorno: The U.S. dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) has felt some pressure in recent trade against other major currencies in recent trading that can be classified as consolidation as the market looks to take a breather into the holiday week. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stock markets rebounded higher on Thursday as investors rejoiced over better-than-expected employment data on the home front. U.S. jobless claims fell to 364,000, marking the lowest number of people applying for unemployment benefits since April 2008. Bullish momentum on Wall Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Silver (NYSEARCA:SLV) is trading far below its traditional investing correlationship with gold (NYSEARCA:GLD), as is platinum (NYSEARCA:PPLT). Read more…
Finally, Santa delivered a four-day methodical move that traders could have stayed with. Tuesday we got a nice gap and go that never wavered and closed strong! Investor’s Business Daily put us back into a confirmed rally and there were igniting Read more…
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