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J.W. Jones: The wild and manic year of 2011 is finally starting to wind down as 2012 rapidly approaches. Market participants are waiting to see if Santa shows up with a present or a lump of coal for Wall Street this year. Performance anxiety is becoming apparent as professional money managers are Read more…
Thomas Carreno: The S&P 500 Index (NYSEARCA:SPY) is currently trading in the form of a double inside month pattern. This is only the second time this pattern has shown itself since 1980. It could suggest a huge move either up or down as we move into 2012. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Euro zone worries took a backseat as investors instead turned their attention to the latest U.S. housing market data. The bulls came charging through Wall Street on Tuesday as new home starts in November surged to multi-month highs, showing signs of life in the battered down Read more…
David Zeiler: The Dodd-Frank Act became law 18 months ago, and it may be hard to believe, but we still aren’t any better off now than we were then. Indeed, the regulators that are supposed to be protecting us from a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis can’t – or refuse – to get the job done. Read more…
US stock futures have fallen sharply from pre-market highs and now point to a lower open Wednesday following yesterday’s 3% gain. European stocks had added to yesterday’s gain early this morning after the ECB loaned a record amount of money to 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 Read more…
Jared Cummans: The past few weeks have seen oil enjoy a meteoric rise. The fossil fuel surged from roughly $75/barrel, all the way to $102/barrel in a recent peak. But breaking the triple digit barrier didn’t last long for crude, as global instability and a lack of investor confidence moved in to create Read more…
Zig Lambo: Shrinking Chinese export quotas and market sentiment have made for unpredictable prices for rare earth elements (NYSEARCA:REMX), but the real opportunity lies with mining stocks. Read more…
Stocks gapped up sharply on Tuesday and steadily rallied the entire day, to close at session highs. All five major indices ended the session up more that 2.75%. The small-cap Russell 2000 Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Regular readers are excused for being confused by this title, or perhaps even suspecting a misprint. After all, having written numerous commentaries documenting the activities of the Read more…
Van Eck Global announced today the expiration of the exchange offers by its Market Vectors ETF Trust for any and all outstanding receipts of six Merrill Lynch-sponsored HOLDRS: Oil Service (AMEX:OIH), Semiconductor (AMEX:SMH), Pharmaceutical (AMEX:PPH), Biotech (AMEX:BBH), Retail Read more…
Jordan Roy-Byrne: One thing that is intriguing about the precious metals sector is the vast composition of the companies in the sector. The entire equity sector can be divided in so many forms and ways. We can divide the gold (NYSEARCA:GDX) and silver stocks (NYSEARCA:SIL), the producers and non Read more…
Tyler Laundon: If I told you that you could buy an asset class that soundly beat the S&P 500 index on a regular basis over the last ten years, you’d probably call me a liar – but at the very least you’d be intrigued. Read more…
Matt Tucker: Expectations of rising interest rates. Fears of massive municipal bond defaults. Heading in to 2011, those were the two strong trends that investors expected would shape the fixed income market. But as we know now, 2011 turned out to be almost the opposite of expectations. Read more…
In trading on Tuesday, the PowerShares DB Commodity Long ETN (NYSEArca:DPU) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 13.63% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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