Dividend ETFs performed well last week: leading the pack are the emerging market stocks (NYSE:EEM) and emerging market dividend stocks (NYSE:DEM), gaining 2.38% and 1.9% U.K., Other Countries Showing The Courage To Get Policy Right! (FXF, EWC)
Here in the U.S., we have a problem: A lack of courage in Washington. Specifically, the courage among policymakers to make the difficult decisions — and take the difficult actions — to deal with Read more…
Impending Crude Correction By Mass Rollover (USO)
Thanks to Muammr Gaddafi’s airstrikes near a Libyan oil terminal, and protests in Iran adding to the continuing chaos in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), on Wednesday, March 2, Brent oil Read more…
As we prepare for Friday’s employment report, it is a good time to review both the market’s outlook for the next few months and our possible investment approach. For those keeping score at 
February marked another month of growth for the U.S. ETF industry, though the pace of inflows slowed a bit from recent months. According to data from the National Stock Exchange assets stood More Thoughts On MLP ETFs/ETNs (AMLP, MLPI)
With interest rates still hovering near record lows and expected to remain depressed for the foreseeable future, investors have been forced to get creative in their hunt for yield. Read more…
Wagner Daily: A Closer Look At These ETFs (KOL, AMJ)
Stocks rose sharply on Thursday as the market realized its most impressive daily performance in approximately three months. It is noteworthy that all ten major sectors closed up on the day Read more…
Friday, March 4, 2011 ETF To Watch: S&P Retail SPDR (XRT)
Although oil remains above the psychologically important $100/bbl. level and tensions remain high in the Middle East, some are growing increasingly optimistic that the U.S. economy will be Read more…
Wednesday March 2nd ETF Movers: (GRN, BAL, SGG, KME, EDV, EGPT)
In trading on Wednesday, the iPath Global Carbon ETN (NYSE:GRN) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 7.16% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
Russell Plans More Small Cap ETFs
Russell continues to make plans for an entrance into the ETF industry, recently detailing a host of small cap domestic equity funds to complement previously-planned large cap funds. Read more…
In October 2008, FocusShares announced that it was shutting down its four ETFs after the funds had failed to attract significant assets in about a year of operations. That first generation of US and Global Sector ETF Portfolios For March (XLB, XLE, XLI, EXI, IXC, MXI)
Please see the right hand side of Scott’s Investments for the March update to the US and Global Sector ETF portfolios. I track the performance of each month’s portfolio as well as previous Read more…Gold Hysteria Leads To Precious Metal Hoarding (GLD, SLV)
The Vietnamese government just banned free market trading of gold bars within the country. This comes just days after Egypt announced that it has banned gold exports. Read more…
Four ETFs To Play Rising Food Prices (DBA, MOO, PBJ, XLP, POT, DE, ADM, SBUX, YUM, HNZ, GIS, KR, KFT, K)
The finance chiefs of the world’s 20 most-developed economies recently gathered in Paris to discuss the challenges facing the global economy. One of those challenges is inflation — especially Read more…
Korea Reveals That Inflation Is A Pan-Asian Problem (AGOL, EWY, GML)
The main gauge of Korean retail inflation surged to 4.5% last month, well above Seoul’s target and revealing that price pressure is alive and well even at the industrial heart of Asia. Read more…
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