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Tim Seymour: China’s steel mills curbed their output over the summer, driving inventories of finished steel products well below historical averages and giving global steel prices a lift. 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 or may not be repetitive. The result is a more manageable list of issues from Read more…
Please see the right hand side of Scott’s Investments for the May update to the US and Global Sector ETF portfolios. I track the performance of each month’s portfolio as well as the Read more…
Please see the right hand side of Scott’s Investments for the March update to the US and Global Sector ETF portfolios. I track the performance of each month’s portfolio as well as previous Read more…
Despite holding firm for numerous months, uncertainty in global economic growth, resulting in spotty demand, is causing the price of steel to decline and will likely continue to provide negative Read more…
As a result of waning confidence in global growth and currency instability, investors continue to seek gold as a safe haven, pushing the shiny metal to record levels Read more…
“Ireland was transformed from a Celtic Tiger to one of the PIIGS. The European country used to post fast economic growth and boasted of high personal income, helped by tax cuts and favorable Read more…
“The materials sector is closely tied to commodities. As commodities rise, materials stocks often move in tandem. If the US economy is stabilizing, we see some healthy potential for materials. Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, MXI, VAW, XLB
Louis Navellier from MoneyShow.com reports that “Buying specific sector ETFs will allow us to capitalize on [an] Advanced Sector Alert when an industry is just breaking out, helping us profit much earlier in the market cycle. Three years of back-testing clearly show that our Advanced Sector Alert identifies sectors coming into favor an average of four months in advance of individual stock winners. Read more…
Andrew Leckey from the Chicago Tribune interviewed a few people, including Jack Kasprzak from BB&T Capital Markets, to determine why basic-materials stocks have been a hot investment in recent months. Jack stated “About $29 billion in the U.S. stimulus package is dedicated to road construction, and about half that money has specific time deadlines Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, IYM, MXI, UYM, XLB
Infrastructure incorporates everything a society does to turn on electricity, build roads, establish communication networks, deliver water, and create and maintain sewage systems.
The iShares S&P Infrastructure Index Fund (IGF) offers all-in-one access to the industry. However, volume has been light and performance has been shaky. The SPDR/FTSE Macquarie Global Infrastructure Fund (GII) has been less volatile. Yet, in my opinion, GII replicates utilities at the exclusion of energy and transportation infrastructure. Read more…
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