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Ron Rowland: As you may have heard, debt-ridden nations face sharply higher borrowing costs. Spain’s ten-year government bonds are closing in on the 7 percent level. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Equities had a rough start to the week as the market reacted quite poorly to Friday’s job report. Just 120,000 jobs were created in March 2012 according to the government, although the unemployment rate did decline to 8.2%. Private payrolls were especially poor as this figure missed expectations by Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Investors’ confidence has taken a serious beating over the past few months as debt drama on both sides of the Atlantic ocean has paved the way for volatile price action across financial markets Read more…
Michael Johnston: With the finish line in sight, it’s fairly safe to say that 2011 will be remembered by most investors as a wild, back-and-forth year that brought plenty of both hope and despair. A hot start Read more…
Michael Johnston: With the fourth quarter of 2011 now well underway, the year is generally shaping up to be one that many investors will try quickly to forget. After 2009 and 2010 brought steady recoveries from the chaotic downturn in 2008, this year has seen renewed concerns about mounting debt burdens Read more…
Eric Dutram: ProShares, the Bethesda, Maryland-based ETF issuer best known for its suite of leveraged and inverse products, announced plans to expand its offering in the Treasury bond space with its latest SEC filing. In the document, the company detailed four new funds that are vastly different from anything else Read more…
The summer of 2011 is shaping up a lot like that of 2010. Yet again, fears in the euro-zone have sparked massive sell-offs in global equities, as more countries become at risk of defaulting this year. Worries over the U.S. economy are also a major factor in the market slump, as many analysts have Read more…
In trading Tuesday, the UBS E-TRACS S&P 500 Gold Hedged Idx ETN (NYSE:SPGH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.72% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
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With the S&P500 cratering (uh-oh, we hit the dreaded Hindenurg Omen) and investors flooding to the (perceived) safety of Treasuries in droves, the thing that differentiates this market from the Read more…
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NEWPORT BEACH, CA (November 2, 2009)—PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has launched two new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to give investors further access to Read more…
Pimco is looking to release two more U.S. Treasury ETFs, expanding their current lineup. The first of these funds, the Pimco 3-7 Year U.S. Treasury Index Fund (FIVZ), will seek to to provide total return that closely corresponds, before fees and expenses, to Read more…
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