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The Daily Capitalist: On Monday, Sept. 19, I suggested that the price of gold (NYSE:GLD) was vulnerable, and also suggested that the stock prices of miners (NYSE:GDX) were a better intermediate-term bet. This was two days before the FOMC meeting, which much of the “smart money” expected would produce a Jobsian Read more…
Michael Johnston: In recent years, ETFs have become increasing popular tools for accessing the fixed income corner of the market. The space initially grew much more slowly than equity ETFs, but investors have gradually become more comfortable with the combination of fixed income exposure Read more…
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Matt Tucker: Now that the fear of widespread municipal bond (muni) defaults has started to subside, we’re beginning to field fewer questions on that debate and more inquiries about the case for munis in today’s environment. In a recent outlook, Russ Koesterich talked about how municipal bonds Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Maintain Overweight US Municipals – This week, our first call focuses on our preference for US Municipals over Treasuries Read more…
According to the ancient Mayan calendar, the world will end in December 2012. If banking analyst Meredith Whitney is right, the beginning of the end might be around the corner. Whitney, who rose to prominence after a pessimistic report on Citigroup issued in late 2007 later proved to be Read more…
High yield bond ETFs concentrate on lower quality corporate bonds, which are considered riskier than higher-quality or more established companies. Because of this higher level of risk, high-yield Read more…
Shah Gilani: Divining the direction of interest rates used to be a lot easier. With the Federal Funds Rate, policymakers at the U.S. Federal Reserve would indicate precisely what they wanted the Read more…
Shah Gilani: Hedge funds are stalking the $2.9 trillion municipal-bond market like an alley cat stalks a mouse. Read more…
Fidelity Investments announced on Wednesday that it has added a five more iShares exchange traded funds to its free trading program. Fidelity now offers its brokerage customers free trading on 30 ETFs all managed by BlackRock’s iShares unit, up from 25 when the partnership began Read more…
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In just the last few days, we’ve seen … 1. Brent crude hit $100 overseas. That’s a key benchmark of world oil prices, and the fact that it breached the triple digits for the first time in over two years Read more…
If anyone tries to persuade you that the massive financial crisis striking cities and states is “no big deal,” tell them to take a hike. Read more…
On January 18th and 19th, the top officials of the two most powerful nations on Earth are to meet in matters of far reaching significance. There will be not one but two dinners. One is to be a grand Read more…
Risk assets’ correction in last week was across the board: virtually all risk assets, other than US REITs (NYSE:VNQ), turned up negative. Among them, both international stocks (NYSE:EFA) 
Another week went by with risk assets being in much favor. This is especially true for the traditionally considered ‘riskiest’ assets including emerging market equities (NYSE:VWO) 
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