Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Knowing the financial system will never recover following the derivatives blowup at Bear Stearns of 2008, the next bank-broker-dealer intentionally slated by the Fed to collapse as the next bad bank is Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Read more…
NYSE:FAZ, NYSE:SKF, NYSE:XLF
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: With the stock price of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) inches from its Armageddon lows of Oct. 2008, whispers of the imminent overnight collapse of this U.S. broker-dealer begin to surface. Client funds, again, are at risk. Read more…
NYSE:FAZ, NYSE:SKF, NYSE:XLF
Jeff Nielson: Precious metals commentators (the legitimate ones) are continually striving to tear away the veils of deceit and propaganda, in order to present the global economy (and the world as a whole) in a realistic manner. This, in turn, is done in order to warn Read more…
NYSE:GLD, NYSE:IAU
Andrew Snyder: The ETF sector has grown at an enormous pace. But until now, the industry had no central voice. Now that it does, it is not good news for investors. Read more…
NYSE:SPY, NYSE:UNG, NYSE:USO
Jeff Nielson: Precious metals investors are understandably frustrated after the latest in a series of bankster ambushes on the gold (NYSEArca:GLD) and silver (NYSEArca:SLV) markets. It is part of the illusory nature of time that “change” is almost always imperceptible – until some major change is almost Read more…
NYSE:GLD, NYSE:SLV
Lara Crigger From Hard Assets Investor Writes: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn’t expected to deliver its final verdict on new position limits and other market restrictions until later this month, but already we’ve seen plenty of reaction, including DXO’s Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Washington (TheStreet) — While President Obama and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission push for greater regulation of the financial instruments at the heart of exchange-traded funds like Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:UNG, NYSE:USO
Investors pulled nearly $2.1 billion out of inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds in August, the second consecutive month of losses for the funds, which have come under regulatory scrutiny. Overall, assets in the 755 ETFs in the U.S. Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
“This is an extremely important time for gold prices. If they can break up and through resistance at $1,000, we could see an exponential rise in the value of gold. The question is, will you be able to take advantage Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:GLD
“Barclays Global Investors (BGI) announced that it has temporarily suspended further creation of new shares of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust (GSG). The unexpected move highlights just how far reaching the rapidly changing regulatory environment concerning the management of commodity ETFs Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:GSG
“Barclays Global Investors (BGI) said on Wednesday it has no plans to scale back its iShares precious metals exchange-traded products (ETPs) despite worries that U.S. regulators may impose new position limits on commodity futures Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:GSG, NYSE:IAU, NYSE:SLV
“A leading US regulatory body is set to probe the role of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the suspected artificial inflation of oil, natural gas and gold prices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
“In the past week, two prominent analysts have said they expect hundreds more small bank failures in the second half of this year. At the same time, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, a fund that tracks top U.S. banking institutions Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:FAS, NYSE:FAZ, NYSE:KRE, NYSE:SKF, NYSE:UYG, NYSE:XLF
As The Natural Gas ETF-UNG has faced headwinds, investors are still waiting for the next move from regulators. “The SEC will likely approve the 1 billion extra units for the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG Quote), paving the way for more investors to gain exposure to the natural gas market. Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:UNG, NYSE:USO
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