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Jared Cummans: After a miserable four day stretch, markets were able to open higher yesterday, as Alcoa started off earnings season with a positive report. For the next few weeks, the biggest and most important companies in the country will be shedding light on their performance in what was the best first Read more…
ETF Base: Only blind investors have missed the on-going boom in online stocks. The year-ended 2011 brought a slew of new tech IPOs, and it is expected that the dot com juggernaut, Facebook, will IPO later in 2012. Read more…
Stocks ended the day mixed as volume waned. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA) was the only, of the five major indices, to post a loss yesterday, as it closed lower by a modest 0.1%. Higher beta stocks led the day as the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ), small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) Read more…
Stocks surged higher on Friday as trade slid. All five major indices closed higher by 2.0% or more. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA: IWM) was the day’s biggest winner as it tacked on 2.7%. The S&P MidCap 400 climbed 2.3% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA: DIA) improved 2.2% Read more…
Eric Dutram: Although stocks started off last week on a down note thanks to growing worries over Europe, markets staged a late session rally in Tuesday trading and carried this into Wednesday and Thursday Read more…
Sam Subramanian: At a time when continuing growth of the U. S. economy appears not so certain, investors often look to overweight industries that can continue to grow. Read more…
The growth of the ETP lineup to 1,300 products and beyond has been fueled largely by the development–and success–of funds other than the “plain vanilla” offerings that offer exposure to well known stock and bond indexes. As the ETF industry has grown in size, it has also become more Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may not be repetitive. The result is a more manageable list of issues from which to Read more…
The Independence Day-shortened week was a tumultuous one for markets as stocks stayed flat for much of Tuesday and Wednesday only to soar higher in Thursday’s session on hopes of a jobs recovery. Unfortunately, this was quickly dispelled by a horrendous June jobs report which saw just Read more…
According to this article published at SeekingAlpha, companies deemed to be engaged in the cloud computing industry are allocated to one of three buckets: Read more…
Two big names in the tech sector are once again stepping on each others’ toes. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have been going at it for years over PCs, MP3s, and smartphones. And Apple and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) had a slightly acrimonious separation when Google expanded into phone software. When Android was first announced, Google CEO Eric Schmidt more or less had to Read more…
Jon D. Markman: Stocks swung from the rafters over the past week with a sense of drama that has been missing for the several months as bulls and bears battled over the 1,300 level of the S&P Read more…
Stocks closed modestly down on Wednesday, as four of the five major indices closed in the red. The price action could generally be considered positive as the market maintained a tight trading range Read more…
David Fry From ETF Digest goes into detail on an Internet ETF discussing the First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index ETF (NYSE:FDN) in a video. Read more…
Sam Subramanian: Investing in Internet companies is attractive considering their excellent growth potential. The use of the Internet is growing rapidly as it enables convenient, quick, and secure Read more…
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