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Patrick MontesDeOca: Is the U.S. Economy Improving? With the European Central Bank’s decision to cut interest rates further, it gave the yellow metal support to increase physical demand to record levels ending the week up 0.7% higher. Read more…
ETF Base: Investors have been on the hunt for yield ever since policy pushed investors to risk assets to generate any real return. Yields on US Treasuries, certificates of deposit, and short-term corporate bonds is without question well below the rate of inflation. Read more…
Do you have to be a genius to be a billionaire? I certainly hope not. But a recent study by Jonathan Wai of Duke University suggests a strong link between brains and billions. The study says “the top 1% in wealth highly Read more…
Gary Christenson: Skip the supposed theory and purpose of Quantitative Easing and ask yourself, what is its equivalent weight? Use the $85,000,000,000 per month which is officially acknowledged, round it to $1,000,000,000,000 per year, Read more…
Michael Noonan: Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed and eaten. Every morning a lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Gazelle, or it will starve to death. It does not matter Read more…
In many instances, simple principles give expression to important, elementary Truths. In less formal contexts; we often term such thinking “common sense.” Read more…
Ron Rowland: Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMLP), the first ETF structured as a C-corporation, issued a prospectus update March 31, 2013 (pdf). Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses decreased from 4.86% to 4.85% resulting in a non-perceptible Read more…
Gold Silver Worlds: Related to the volatility in gold (and silver) recently, Jim Rickards said during his latest CNBC interview (Shown below) that fundamentals prevail in the long run but that technicals can control the price in the short run. Read more…
The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, small-cap Russell 2000, and S&P Midcap 400 indices all finished at fresh ALL-TIME HIGHS last week. The Nasdaq Composite is not at a record high, but is trading at its highest level since late 2000. Read more…
Futures are basically flat Monday morning after another impressive move in the stock market last week. The S&P cleared 1600 with some authority Friday as the job’s data came in better than expectations. Many are saying, what do Read more…
Halfway through this quarter’s earnings season, it’s time to take stock of the performance of the stock market. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is up 12% year to date, but which sectors are lagging behind? Read more…
BillionairesPortfolio.com: Warren Buffett this weekend at his annual Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting said stocks are still the only game in town. He went even further and said the stock market is not in “bubble territory” and stocks are still Read more…
Senior Loan ETFs are becoming increasingly popular with investors as they provide high yields with protection against interest rate risk. Read more…
ETF Base: You’ve probably seen news accounts recently that equities markets in various countries are hitting new highs and continue to rally in spite of whatever alarming news exists in the economy, Read more…
For several months the U.S. stock market has been impressively shrugging off a staggering string of terrible economic reports that seemed to indicate the economic recovery is stumbling again, Read more…
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