5 Reasons Natural Gas Prices Are Headed Much Higher
Tony Daltorio: Natural gas prices are finally turning around, hitting multi-month highs – and piquing the interest of legendary investors who say the commodity has a lot higher to climb. Read more…
Death of Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed Americans Is At A Record Low
The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States. Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats Read more…
Facebook Inc (FB): The Good and The Bad
Chris Preston: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) beat earnings after the bell yesterday, giving the social network’s stock a nice 4% boost in trading today. Read more…
S&P 500: How True Is The “Sell In May and Go Away” Adage?
Sasha Cekerevac: As the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) enters the month of May, many people are worried about their investment strategy, especially in light of the old saying “sell in May and go away.” Does this saying hold any value? Read more…
Look For Consolidation In The United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNG) Before It Can Head Higher
The current market rally continues to build steam, led by the relative strength in the Nasdaq Composite, as it pulls away from the 3,300 breakout level. The Nasdaq rallied 1.3% on Thursday, and is the only index to have broken out to new swing highs. Read more…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) In For A Cruel Summer?
Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tim Cook probably didn’t think that a hopeful comment from last week’s quarterly conference call would be taken the wrong way, but there’s no other way to approach it. Read more…
Markets Ripping After Strong Jobs Report, Upward Revisions
US stock futures are ripping before the open after a better-than-expected jobs report. The headline number of 165,000 non-farm payrolls added topped the estimated 150,000, but it was the meaty upward revisions for Read more…
United States Natural Gas ETF (UNG) Tumbles On Big Supply Gain
Natural gas ETFs have been in focus to start 2013, as the commodity has been one of the few strong performers in the natural resource world. This has largely been due to unseasonably cold Read more…
Global X Funds, the New York based provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced today that its Board of Trustees has approved reverse share splits for six of its ETFs. Gold Miners Need A Breather Before They Can Recover
Tyler Laundon: The collapse in the price of gold last week seems to have trapped gold miners like a crumbling mine shaft. Read more…
4 Reasons Why Gold Prices Have Bounced Back
Tony Daltorio: It’s been a good few days for investors holding on to gold, and we’ve been getting lots of questions as to why gold prices are up recently. Read more…
Weak Durable Goods Numbers Foreshadow Low Confidence
George Leong: Consumers appear to be holding back on buying non-essential goods, and this could impact the economic recovery. Read more…
The ASEAN Region Has Avoided The Growth Slowdown
Mike Burnick: The world is in the midst of another “growth scare” as has been the case in each of the past three years. Economic data is rolling over in many countries around the globe as negative Read more…
WisdomTree Files For 3 New Emerging Market ETFs
Many ETF providers have been filing for new products, with this trend picking up steam as we approach summer. WisdomTree has been no exception, having filed for three new ETFs in order Read more…
Market Fundamentals, Tax Rate Increases Combine to Strengthen Case for Closed-End Municipal Bond Funds
A number of factors that came to the forefront in March continue to support a strong market for municipal bonds and closed-end funds (CEFs) investing in municipal bonds, according to Jim Colby, Read more…
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