Joseph L. Shaefer: Western European and US governments share something in common: the US government thought certain favored donors, er, “financial institutions,” were too big to fail. That’s nothing new. The government, or US taxpayers, have been bailing out Wall Street and the big money center Read more…

NYSE:EUO, RHS, RSP, RYE, RYU

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, and nearly 40 years in the investment business, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may or may not be repetitive. Read more…

IDU, JXI, NYSE:FXU, RYU, VPU, XLU

In trading on Wednesday, the Proshares Short Kbw Reg Banking (KRS) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.19% on the day. Also up on the day is the Internet Infrastructure HOLDRs (IIH) up 1.61% and the Read more…

IIH, ITB, KRS, NYSE:FDD, OOK, RYU