Ron Rowland:  Ben Bernanke keeps saying the Federal Reserve will do “everything it can” to encourage economic growth. But his first two “quantitative easing” programs were no help for average Americans. They were very beneficial for Wall Street, though, so the big banks want more. Read more…

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WisdomTree has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “WisdomTree Emerging Markets Inflation Protection Bond Fund ETF.” The WisdomTree Emerging Markets Inflation Protection Bond Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide total returns (income and capital appreciation) that are representative of inflation-linked debt securities of emerging market issuers. They did not specify a trading symbol or expense ratio Read more…

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J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) announced today that it has been appointed by PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company LLC), a leading global investment management firm, to offer five of its U.S.-registered ETFs on the international segment of the Mexican Stock Exchange, Bolsa Mexicana de Read more…

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Inflation is creeping up everywhere. Prices for gold, silver, oil, gasoline, food, even soft drinks are all creeping higher. You see it every day. Read more…

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The brickbats are starting to pour in. For months, I’ve warned readers about the bubble developing in long-term Treasury bonds. Yet what was the top-performing asset class in the first half of 2010? You guessed it: Long-term Treasury bonds, with a total return – price gains plus interest – of 13.2%. Read more…

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“PIMCO doubled the size of its ETF offerings for the second time in as many weeks.  Of course, when you are going from one to two, and then two to four Read more…

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