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Roger Conrad: Four months ago, natural gas (NYSEARCA:UNG) bottomed out at a 10-year low of less than $2 per million British thermal units. Since then, the price has rocketed around, actually bursting over $3 in early July before backing off later in the month. Read more…
Benjamin Shepherd: In the first quarter, the S&P 500 gained nearly 13 percent, while the ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMLP) managed to eke out a 1.7 percent gain. A slight spike in Treasury yields seems to have pulled at least some income seekers away from master limited partnerships (MLP), while Read more…
David Gillie: Mr. Market believes all the bad news until Election Day is behind him. His assumption may not be unfounded. After more than a year of anxiety and headlines about the crisis in Greece, Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: Gold Stock Trades will not regale you with the growing presence of nuclear facilities throughout the world despite the German (NYSEArca:EWG) and Japanese (NYSEArca:EWJ) negative stance. It is well known that reactors (NYSEArca:NLR) are going to come online in Read more…
As the S&P 500 grinds higher, fueled by fresh morsels of hope coming out of Europe, the truth is that so far 2011 is in the loser column with the benchmark down roughly 2% year-to-date. At the same time, but at the complete other end of the performance spectrum, stands the Read more…
Ron Rowland: Invesco PowerShares brought out two new and unique ETFs last Thursday (5/5/11). PowerShares S&P 500 High Beta Portfolio (NYSE:SPHB) and PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: The Cassandras of the media beat the drums of fear concerning Japan’s millennial tragedy, which has been a confluence of perfect storms. There has been a great deal of bad news Read more…
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