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Chris Ciovacco: John Williams, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, delivered a risk-friendly speech in Portland, Oregon on Thursday. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: To the casual observer, the announcements made late last week in Europe may appear to be just another in a series of “do the minimal to get by” moves by policymakers. In reality, Germany moved off their hard-line stance, which may mark a watershed Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Traders often look for relatively easy ways to monitor the battle between “risk-on” and ‘risk-off”. Given that foreign stock indexes have lagged the S&P 500 in recent months and the center of the risk universe sits in Europe, Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the Greeks may be having a change of heart relative to going out on their own sans the euro (NYSEARCA:FXE): Read more…
Scott Martin: As a sum-of-the-parts play, the MSCI Ireland ETF (NYSEARCA:EIRL) seems to have room to head higher whether traders get defensive or deepen their bets on a fresh burst of growth for the global economy. Read more…
Scott Martin: From a technical point of view, emerging markets have gotten a nice lift over the last week. But not all slices of the globe have bounced back equally. Read more…
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Eric Dutram: In total, the first quarter of 2012 was a great year for the ETF industry. Issuers saw 85 new products hit the market—while 16 were delisted—and net inflows reached nearly $56 billion in the time period. This surge in interest, as well as the strong performance of the market, led total ETF assets to hit Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Traders and investors often use popular ETFs like the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:EEM) and iShares MSCI EAFE ETF (NYSEARCA:EFA) for assessing overseas markets quickly, so let’s take a moment to view the key short-term barrier levels – mainly resistance Read more…
Jared Cummans: This past week was chock full of data on the home front, as the U.S. poured on a number of key economic reports with the majority coming in positive. Despite a sell off on Friday, major indexes still covered some ground this week, as Tuesday saw the Dow close above 13,000 for the first Read more…
Morningstar’s director of ETF research, Paul Justice, explains which ETFs offer the most tax efficiency and names some of his favorite low-cost ETFs for building a simple but diversified tax-saving portfolio. Paul also explains to investors why Read more…
David Gillie: Greece survives from media headline to media headline like a fading Hollywood starlet’s career. I quit doing the math when the “pledged” bailouts exceeded their total debt several times over. Read more…
Tim Seymour: We are big fans of the Turkish market around here, but it says something when the world’s second-biggest economy, growing at a rate of nearly 9% a year, is trading at the same Read more…
Jared Cummans: It is no secret that the ETF industry is dominated by just a handful of products. The majority of the $1 trillion plus assets are confined to roughly 100 funds, leaving the other 1,300 ETFs in the dust. But as growth in the industry continues to pick up, more and more funds are entering elite Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: As the calendars prepare to flip forward, it appears as if 2011 will go down as a record-breaking year for the ETF industry on the product development front. More than 300 new ETPs began trading this year, shattering the previous record set in 2010. But despite the record size of Read more…
Jared Cummans: This past year has been a strong one for the ETF industry. With a record number of launches, already over 300 on the year, it is clear that the exchange traded world is still in full swing. But despite all of the innovation that the year has seen, investors are still partial to their big name Read more…
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