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Eric Dutram: Unlike consumer staples, the consumer discretionary industry is highly sensitive to economic cycles (The Comprehensive Guide to Consumer Staples ETFs). At the time of recession when consumers lose confidence in the economy, only necessities Read more…
Michael Snyder: The mainstream media is not telling you the truth about unemployment in the United States. The percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing. In March 2010, Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: You may have heard that China just posted the biggest trade deficit figures in over a decade . Naturally, this caused the usual suspects who have been waiting – some would say hoping Read more…
Jared Cummans: As February draws to a close, investors will have plenty of key data points to digest as we enter the new month. Some of the biggest focal points of the month have been gold and oil, which have both been surging for the majority of the past few weeks, leaving investors to scramble in and out of Read more…
Michael Johnston: As indexes have been essentially transformed into investable assets in part because of surging interest in ETFs, many advisors and investors have begun to take a closer look at Read more…
Sean Brodrick: Boy, the economy is looking ugly. But there are always some bright spots. Would you expect to find those bright spots in automobiles? How about auto-related commodities? I have news and ideas on both. Read more…
Ah, winter time in South Africa. The days are sunny and warm. The nights devilishly cold, near freezing. But more importantly, if it’s winter in South Africa, that can only mean one thing… It’s the annual “coming apart at the seams.” That’s right, the 2011 strike season is in full swing! Early July in the United States is full of picnics, baseball games, fireworks, hot dogs, hamburgers, beer and trips to the beach. In South Africa, winter means Read more…
As a realist Steve Wood has a hard time getting giddy about the near term prospects for global stock markets. The Chief Market Strategist for Russell Investments strikes a balance somewhere between “extremely guarded optimism” and “damning with faint praise” when telling me that he “likes equities versus fixed income… kind of a no-brainer in terms of Read more…
US futures are negative in early trading, down 0.5% as the Moody’s downgrade of Portugal reverberates throughout markets around the globe. The Stoxx Europe 600 benchmark is lower by 0.4% on the ratings Read more…
Sam Subramanian: Auto stocks have benefited from U.S. economic recovery from the Great Recession. The DJ U.S. Automobiles & Parts index ($DJUSAP) is up nearly 350% since March 2009 bottom. Read more…
Ron Rowland: U.S. investors somehow survived for 25 years with just one automotive fund. In the last ten days their choices jumped to three. Global X Advisors rolled out the newest entrant, the Read more…
Global X announced the latest expansion to its rapidly-growing product lineup today, rolling out a fund designed to deliver exposure to the global automotive industry. The Global X Auto ETF Read more…
Tuesday marks another first for the rapidly-expanding ETF industry, as First Trust rolled out the NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund (NASDAQ:CARZ). The new automotive ETF will seek to replicate Read more…
First Trust Advisors L.P. (“First Trust”), the fastest growing Exchange-Traded Fund (“ETF”) sponsor among the ten largest sponsors (by assets raised) since 2010, announced today that Ryan Issakainen, Vice President, ETF Strategist, will ring the opening bell of The NASDAQ Stock Market at 9:30 a.m. Read more…
Kerri Shannon: What some have called “the worst traffic jam in human history” happened on the Beijing-Tibet Highway in August 2010. It trapped some drivers for more than 20 days and Read more…
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