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Ron Rowland: BlackRock announced (pdf) it would be closing the iShares Diversified Alternatives Trust (NYSEARCA:ALT) due to client feedback on the ETF’s limited application in portfolios and lack of long-term demand for the product. The last day of trading will be May 28, Read more…
Mitchell Clark: There is a genuine serenity when fly fishing. It is unique. Read more…
Patrick MontesDeOca: I recently had the opportunity to interview Rick Rule, President of Sprott Asset Management USA, Inc. Our conversation ranged over currencies, social promises, precious metals and mining stocks. Read more…
There is a lot of good stuff happening in U.S.-Mexican business relations Read more…
Michael Noonan: The gloves are off, and central bankers are on a full frontal assault against all [paper] holders of gold and silver. Ironically, that very overt assault is the biggest clue of how fearful those in power really are. Fear, a sign of weakness Read more…
Gold may or may not be a currency or hedge against crisis but it has been traded for thousands of years. That being the case, gold can probably be expected to fluctuate in value but it’s not going to disappear. At least not in a Read more…
As I write this, we have a house full of my daughter’s friends for a sleepover birthday party. Despite the nonstop chattering (and shrieking), I still have no idea what 9-year-old girls talk about. I assume the main topics were Read more…
In last Friday’s commentary, we highlighted SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) as a potential short entry as it bounced substantially off its recent lows and into near-term resistance. Specifically, recall we were looking for a short entry if $GLD fell Read more…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) beat estimates in reporting fiscal Q2 earnings this week, but guidance came in light, as CEO Tim Cook refused to be pinned down on when to expect new products from the Mac maker. Read more…
You can’t escape it. The headlines say it all as commodities sell off and even the most stalwart precious metals enter bear-market territory. The “Golden Decade” appears to be Read more…
It’s odd, but Americans get happier when the roofs over their heads get harder to afford. Over the past hundred years or so, Americans have come to see houses not just as another commodity which should be getting cheaper over time Read more…
US stock futures are up around six handles Monday morning as the market looks to close out its sixth straight positive month. After an impressive five-day bounce off the 50-day moving average, the S&P rested on Thursday Read more…
ETF Base: Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) may be this year’s best performer as a provider of internet TV, but investors are seeing impressive gains in media as a whole. Read more…
Poland is one of the few countries in Europe that has shown an ability to weather the economic crisis in the Euro-zone. The country’s solid economic performance despite the weakness in many Read more…
Sy Harding: The market has been engaged in a balancing act for six weeks now between being made optimistic by 1st quarter earnings that are mostly beating Wall Street’s estimates, and concerns Read more…
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