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Jack Crooks: The problems facing Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ) have been building up for some time. And I don’t believe the coming negative impact on its currency can be delayed much longer. Read more…
Michael Johnston: As a handful of brave souls find out every four years, running for President of the United States generally involves opening up your personal life to intense examination by opponents, the media, and general public. Generally, the scrutiny focuses on personal histories–arrests, affairs, Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Central bank buying, along with George Soros and Steven Cohen, is contributing mightily to the increase in the price of gold, with the exchange traded fund, SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEARCA:GLD) up almost 4% for the week. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Turkey, Brazil, Russia: after months of protesting that their money bought too much, country after country is now moving aggressively into the foreign exchange markets to support their currencies. Read more…
Jared Cummans: The ETF industry continues to expand at an impressive rate, with dozens of new products debuting every month and the size of the lineup quickly approaching the 1,300 mark. While each new month generally brings a number of new product launches, it also beings some Read more…
Todd Shriber: Last week, I touched on some of the basic concepts involving foreign currency ETFs and for the purposes of simplicity, I opted to focus more on examples that highlighted single-country ETFs. Single-country currency ETFs are a stark departure from multi-country equity ETFs, Read more…
PIMCO, the California-based ETF issuer best known for its active bond funds, has put another active product into its exchange-traded pipeline. The latest proposal from the bond fund giant is the Read more…
In recent years, emerging markets have been established as the clear leaders of global GDP growth, while the economies of the U.S. and western Europe have stalled. Developed markets are facing Read more…
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Even though higher interest rates will ultimately support the underlying Chinese economy, Shanghai stocks are not greeting the measure with much enthusiasm. Read more…
China has admitted that it has inflation and is taking its medicine. As we have said all year, the country is anything but an outlier — even if you are only looking at Asia. Read more…
Investment Strategy: (NYSE:CCX) is an actively-managed ETF that seeks to achieve returns reflective of money market rates in selected commodity-producing countries and changes to the Read more…
At the end of 2010, there are currently 33 actively-managed ETFs with a combined asset base of close to $3 billion. These products are from seven different issuers, some of whom have been Read more…
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Last week saw the end of a year that was relatively kind to investor portfolios, as most major asset classes managed to post strong results in 2010. As the calendars flip to 2011, the outlook remains 
Though the recent tax agreement between the Obama administration and Congressional Republicans was hailed as an historic compromise, there is no shortage of politicians and 
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