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Steve Mauzy: As someone who considers himself a contrarian, my interest is always piqued by alarmist headlines. Which is why I’m interested in housing. For the past two years, the sector has been a wellspring of head-for-the-hills Cassandraisms. Read more…
Jeff Harding: It would not surprise anyone that home prices are still falling, perhaps less, but they are still declining. The Case Shiller report for November 30, 2011 showed: Read more…
Ron Rowland: I’ve spent my investment career following sector momentum, and it’s worked out pretty well. ETFs make it even better. Right now my indicators show a lot of short-term strength in real estate. Personally, I find it hard to believe the housing market has truly bottomed. My colleague Read more…
John Nyaradi: Some ETFs are hot and some are not as we enter 2012. A famous stock market axiom says that “a rising tides lifts all boats,” however, in markets like today’s bifurcated environment, vast 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…
Stoyan Bojinov: The ETF industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last five years and innovation across products has brought forth a multitude of previously inaccessible investment strategies to mainstream investors. Aside from the vast expansion in the exchange-traded product universe, the last Read more…
David Zeiler: Dragged down by such anchors as a bulging pipeline of foreclosures and a dearth of buyers, it will be many more months – if not years – before a housing market rebound takes hold. Read more…
Close to three years after the bottom fell out of the housing market, home prices still remain weak and are even declining once again in many major markets. Recently, the 10 city Case-Shiller Index showed that home prices have fallen back into dreaded double dip territory, suggesting that further Read more…
Kevin Grewal: According to the S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 major cities, the housing sector continues to face headwinds and remains in a slump. Read more…
Global financial markets experienced significant volatility last week as the tragic earthquake and devastating tsunami that struck Japan continue to ripple throughout the global economy. Read more…
As the number of foreclosures around the nation continues to climb, a massive flooding of these homes into the market could result in a supply shock which could eventually depress real estate Read more…
Weekly Recap: Last week proved to be quite bumpy for investors, as asset classes from stocks to commodities–and everything in between–swayed between gains and losses for the last several 
The housing market is at a fork in the road. While we don’t know if this is the bottom or the beginning of another downturn, either way we are sure to have volatility and this is where traders 
If you’re like most Americans, you know December as the “Season of Shopping.” So today I’ll give you some ideas on how you can make money to replace what you’ll spend this month. 
In afternoon trading Tuesday, the iPath DJ-UBS Cotton TR Sub-Idx ETN (NYSE:BAL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.52% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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