Japan ETFs: Nothing Goes Straight Up
Japanese ETFs have been leading the market higher for much of 2013. The space was in focus thanks to ‘Abenomics’ and a concentrated effort by the nation’s central bank to weaken its currency Read more…
Can Apple Inc. (AAPL) Impress?
Summer is always an interesting time for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) investors. In June, Apple will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, which usually brings Read more…
What The Flows Show: No “Sell in May” For ETF Investors
What a difference 31 days can make. In my last post on month-end trends in exchange traded product (ETP) flows, I wrote that investor sentiment in April had cooled, giving way to a significant slowdown in global ETP inflows (a mere $9.2 billion, Read more…
Why High Yield ETFs Have Stumbled And How To Play Them
David Fabian: Investors have been diligently seeking to increase their yields all year while continuing to take more and more risk to boost their income streams. This phenomenon has been spurred by the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate Read more…
A Great Way To Hedge Your Portfolio With The Ranger Equity Bear ETF (HDGE)
Thanks to recent Congressional testimony by Ben Bernanke and the release of the latest Fed minutes, some are wondering if the central bank will begin to taper off asset purchases sooner rather than later. In fact, some are predicting that the Read more…
Can Lumber Prices Predict The Future Of The Economy?
Sasha Cekerevac: As we all know, the stock market is in record-setting territory. One would think that this must mean the economic recovery engineered by the Federal Reserve is surely in place, but it’s not. I believe that the economic Read more…
How The Stock Market Staged A Rally and Not a Meltdown This May
George Leong: May was supposed to a dud, according to the Stock Trader’s Almanac. In 2012, the month of May was a disaster, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) plummeting Read more…
Potential Oil Glut! Raymond James Analyst’s Contrarian Forecast
Stepping away from the pack, Andrew Coleman of Raymond James Equity Research is making a contrarian forecast for an oil glut in 2014. Shale oil production is on the ascent, with the United States joining Saudi Arabia on the supply side, Read more…
SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD): Gold Myth Exposed
Gold Silver Worlds: The number of statements that link investor liquidation of the SPDR GOld Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD) to the end of the gold bull market is countless. However, as shown below, drawing conclusions from such a fact in Read more…
Hedge Funds Are Heavy Short Gold
Zentrader: Nobody ever said riding gold would be easy and Friday was a perfect example of that. No doubt gold can be a heart-breaker and it’s obvious the short traders went after those who entered with Thursday’s break or who over-leveraged their hand. Read more…
Turkey: Not An Arab Spring, But A Turkish Summer?
Tim Seymour: The protests that started in Istanbul around the paving over of a park to replace it with a shopping mall, escalated quickly over the weekend to become a nationwide event. Protests spread to major cities in Turkey Read more…
S&P 500: Reference Lesson on Divergences and Intraday Reversals
Corey Rosenbloom: The stellar intraday reversal in the US Equity Indexes mid-day June 3rd gives us a great educational reference lesson in visual chart patterns that tend to precede divergences and how we can adapt in real time. Read more…
Chinese Economy Finally Slowing; What It Means for Its Stocks
George Leong: Chinese stocks (NYSEARCA:FXI) continue to be major underperformers this year—they have been for the past three years from 2010 to 2012. I must admit that having been a bullish supporter of Chinese stocks, it has been a major Read more…
UBS Calls 7 ETRACS ETNs For Redemption
Ron Rowland: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 will be the last day of trading for seven exchange traded notes (“ETNs”) issued by UBS under the ETRACS brand. The final redemption value will be determined at the close of business the following day (June 6). Read more…
S&P 500: U.S. Stock Market Foreshadows Another Rally
Chris Vermeulen: Over the past couple week’s investors and traders have been growing increasingly bearish for the US stock market. While I too also feel this rally is getting long in the teeth there is no reason to exit long positions and start shorting. Read more…
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