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Barron’s ran an article this past week about mortgage REITs. Most of you are familiar with property REITs. Mortgage REITs are basically the same thing, but they make their money on mortgages. These REITs borrow money at almost zero percent in the Read more…
ETF Base: Given the recent Fed action and immediate market rally in certain QE3 favored assets, it should come as no surprise that old is back en vogue. The relationship between gold prices and gold miners should be quite clear – gold miners, which are levered to gold prices, Read more…
Christian Magoon: Two investments that inspire massive coverage and debate about their future values are the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock. With the launch of QE3 however, could recent performance trends point Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Leave it to Max Keiser to pick up on the Silver Doctors article, titled, “Is JP Morgan Shorting Paper Metals While Acquiring Massive Physical Stockpiles?” Read more…
Christian Magoon: Gold ETFs Differ In Returns By Over 60 Percentage Points In The Last 30 Days. Gold ETFs and ETNs have experienced an eventful last month with stimulus efforts rallying markets and gold prices. This broke a longer term trend that began in late February Read more…
Christian Magoon: The SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD), has been on a roll lately as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, China and even the Bank of Japan have announced new liquidity moves over the last few months. Here’s the GLD performance breakdown Read more…
Christian Magoon: While Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the most successful and popular investments of the last few years yet a surprisingly out of favor gold miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX) has outperformed Apple by close to 10 percentage points over the last month. Read more…
Christian Magoon: Gold ETF investors have been happy with gold’s run upward the last month. The rally, based off the hope for and realization of QE3, has pushed gold ETF products like the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) upward into double digit territory for the year. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Over the past year, gold was trapped in the price band of about $1,500 to $1,700 per ounce, due to the lingering economic conditions prevailing all over the world (read: Top Commodity ETFs In This Uncertain Market). In order to boost economic growth, Read more…
Jared Cummans: “The world’s economy is a soft-paste porcelain vase set on a wobbly plant stand in the heart of an active earthquake zone”. Not only is that one of the best analogies I have ever read, but Jim McTague’s wording also hits the nail on the head for just how fragile Read more…
Christian Magoon: The SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD), is the largest gold ETF on the planet and has been on a performance hot streak over the last month. GoldETFs.biz has been flooded with investors taking another look at gold due to QE3. GLD has had such a strong last Read more…
Deborah Baratz: The gold bull market is alive and well, meaning now’s the time for investing in gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Read more…
Christian Magoon: Gold ETF investors have seen a significant run up in the value of gold ETF shares for over a month now. Physical gold ETF products like the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) and the iShares Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:IAU) have gained over 6% Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speculation of a post-presidential-election-central-bank-coordinated money bomb of fresh new cash from the Fed, the ECB and other central banks, appear to be just that: speculation. That, according to a regular guest of Eric King Read more…
Stocks ended a choppy, indecisive week on a positive note last Friday, as a volatile session led to higher volume gains across the board. As is typically the case when the Fed speaks, Read more…
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