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Chris Ciovacco: The video below highlights areas in several markets, including U.S. stocks (NYSEARCA:SPY), foreign stocks (NYSEARCA:VEU), commodities (NYSEARCA:DBC), semiconductors (NYSEARCA:SMH), and Treasuries Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Conducting our weekend Europe Google searches for the latest news yielded articles with a very familiar and vague tone about the “progress” across the pond. The excerpt below from a Reuters article represents a good example: Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: On May 6 with the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) trading at 1,369, we presented evidence of slowing bullish momentum. Thus far, we have seen little in the way of hard evidence to suggest a bottom was reached last Friday. However, we have seen enough to suggest Read more…
Don Miller: High commissions and management fees, along with taxes, can really cut into your returns. That’s where exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, come in. In today’s investment world, ETFs are cheaper Read more…
Michael Johnston: State Street, the firm behind the two largest ETFs, announced this week the addition of two new international equity funds to its product lineup. The SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI ETF (NYSEArca:ACIM) will offer exposure to global equity markets, casting a wide net across both developed Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Financial markets all over the globe have taken investors for a wild ride this year and many are still dizzy from all of the wild up and down swings that seem to be abundant across virtually every asset class. A sluggish economic recovery at home coupled with ongoing debt woes in the financially Read more…
In July 2009 I profiled a momentum based ETF portfolio. I track this portfolio (and others) monthly on Scott’s Investments using Google Docs. The portfolio consists of the ETFs with the bestMomentum continues to build behind actively-managed ETFs, as one of the most successful issuers of these products has stuffed yet another offering into an already full pipeline of ETF ideas. Read more…
In July 2009 I profiled a momentum based ETF portfolio. I track this portfolio (and others) monthly on Scott’s Investments using Google Docs. The portfolio consists of the ETFs with the best Read more…
Japan will take many years to reuild the physical and psychological damage caused by the triple disaster that struck them. Who could have known? There is a very important lesson that can easily Read more…
In July 2009 I profiled a momentum based ETF portfolio. I track this portfolio (and others) monthly on Scott’s Investments using Google Docs. The portfolio consists of the ETFs with the best Read more…
MidAmerican Energy Company is a domestic operation of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a company of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-A). As of 3/30/2011, David Sokol Read more…
I recently wrote an article on 4 Methods to Hedge an Equity Portfolio. A reader asked how leveraged ETFs would perform as a hedge in lieu of single (1x) short ETFs. I should preface that I Read more…
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Market volatility and drawdowns remind us of the role “hedging” can have in portfolios. Hedging in its simplest form is purchasing securities in order to reduce portfolio risk. The purchased securities Read more…
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