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Shah Gilani: Forget about optimistic headlines on the housing market. Whether it’s record low mortgage rates, improvement in the Case-Shiller Index, higher housing starts, or any other report, 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…
Andrew Snyder: The nation’s housing market is in shambles. But as Washington passes the buck to Wall Street, it’s about to get even worse. After nearly 10 years of government manipulation, the fate of the nation’s housing market (NYSEARCA:IYR) once again lies in the hands of capitalism. We’ve gone Read more…
Mike Larson: What was one of the best performing sectors in late 2011 … and the first several days of 2012? Would you believe HOUSING?? The Philadelphia Housing Sector Index, or HGX plunged to 73.65 in October. But then it started rising, ultimately tagging 109.65 this week. That’s a gain of Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: President Obama on Oct. 24 announced yet another housing bailout. This time, borrowers who are underwater by more than 25%, are on time with their payments, and have Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac mortgages dating before March 2009 will be allowed to refinance their home Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: The housing market remains a drag on the economy, but there are indications that it is finally starting to bottom. Prices have stopped declining, and there is even some sign of life in sales. Read more…
George Wolff: China’s housing “bubble” is the current bogeyman of the global economy. Ever since the disastrous US real estate implosion, the world has been watching anxiously for the next great Read more…
Back in early October, after a visit to the Texas State Fair, I wrote about inflation and the global food “problem” and how you can take advantage. Every stock I mentioned in the report has seen Read more…
Last year was a good year for most asset classes, as investor portfolios continued to recover from the recent recession. The difference in performance between many comparable funds was Read more…
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When leveraged and inverse ETFs were first launched, many investors weren’t aware of the negative effects that daily rebalancing would have on the long-term performance of those ETFs Read more…
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I … Silver, (NYSE:SLV), rose 1.7% and World Stocks, (NASDAQ:ACWI), rose 2.3% on Friday, September 24, 2010, as currency traders took the Euro, (NYSE:FXE), 1.3% Read more…
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A mere 15 years ago, selecting the right exchange-traded fund (ETF) was no big challenge. That’s because the first ETF wasn’t introduced until 1993, and the second didn’t follow until 1995. Read more…
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I … Stephen Bernard of the Associated Press reports that stocks fell as new worries emerged about Europe’s economy and the U.S. job market. Traders were disappointed to Read more…
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While 2010 has to date been a relatively flat year for the developed market indices and some of the emerging markets are up big, like the Colombia stock market, there has definitely been some Read more…
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