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The transportation industry occupies an important niche in the world market and includes movement of freight and passengers through different modes such as rail, trucks, ships, and air. It is highly competitive, capital intensive and depends Read more…
Tom Essaye: Being a true contrarian investor isn’t just about investing in unloved sectors of the market or specific stocks. It’s also about conducting research and discovering indicators that the crowd doesn’t follow — indicators that can help give Read more…
Tom Essaye: As I look back on the first quarter of 2012, one of the most glaring events was the rise in gas prices here in the U.S. Wholesale gasoline began the year at $2.66/gallon on the NYMEX, and closed last Friday at $3.33, a gain of 67 cents … a jaw-dropping 25 percent. Read more…
Tim Seymour: After a harrowing two-month plunge, the Baltic Dry index of shipping costs has finally rounded a bottom. The question is whether this is more than a brief respite for this key indicator of the health of global commodity markets — everything from grain to iron ore. Read more…
Michael Snyder: If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically? Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators. In other words, they change before the overall Read more…
Jonathan Yates: The shipping industry exchange-traded fund, Claymore/Delta Global Shipping ETF (NYSEARCA:SEA) continues to sink, but rising fuel costs are also taking their toll on airline operators. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: While the Guggenheim Shipping (NYSEARCA:SEA) exchanged-trade fund is down, the Baltic Dry Index is up. What is causing this nominally bizarre divergence between shipping stock benchmarks? Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Bankruptcy filings by American Airlines (NYSE:AMR) today and from General Maritime (PINK:GMRRQ) earlier in the month emphasize the profitability of shorting the exchange-traded fund for airlines, Guggenheim Airline ETF (NYSEARCA:FAA), and for shipping, Read more…
Jonathan Yates: With Quantitative Easing 3 on the way and uber-investor Jim Rogers shorting stocks and going long on commodities, short- and long-term exchange-traded fund plays are in order. Read more…
Jared Cummans: As the ETF universe has expanded rapidly over the past few years, so too has the reach of its exposure. Where there was once only a few hundred products for basic investing, there now stands over 1,400 ETFs with more than one trillion in combined assets. There are now ETFs for not only Read more…
The Claymore-advised exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) listed below have announced that the reconvened Joint Special Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 30, 2010, has been Read more…
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