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If Macy’s put signs in its windows, suddenly announcing that everything was 25% off, people would be lined up in the street looking to take advantage of the deal. On Wall Street however low prices seem to be a deterrent. Right now the Read more…
Benjamin Shepherd: The S&P 500 has given up 7 percent since peaking in April 2012, primarily because of uncertainty regarding Greece’s commitment to the terms of its bailout. Read more…
Jared Cummans: After another choppy trading week, investors will be looking forward to earnings from a number of blue chip firms that have yet to throw their hat in the ring. This past week was another frustrating one, as investors dealt with a mix of data and earnings that pushed and pulled at the market. Read more…
Tony Sagami: In a new Virgin Mobile commercial, a young Richard Branson tells his friends, “In the future, we’ll be able to talk to each other with our thumbs.” Read more…
Jared Cummans: Few stocks receive more attention from the financial presses than Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the tech giant that has made a remarkable recovery from life support in the early 1990s to become one of the largest companies in the world. The stock has long been an investor favorite based on Read more…
David Gillie: The Technology Sector tends to perform best in the 2nd half of the year—largely due to back-to-school sales, holiday purchasing and corporate end-of-year expenditures. This is certainly not to say that tech can’t perform well in the 1st half of the year, but most likely it will not do much Read more…
We’ve already reached the half-way point of the year and the top performing U.S. industry sectors are rising much higher than many people, even Wall Street’s leading economists and analysts previously thought. Even though the economic recession is far from over, astute investors are profiting. Are you?
Boosted by a rising market, the money invested in ETFs finished the month of May on a very strong note, up by $53 billion. Much of the greatest interest in ETF investing is in funds that narrowly invest in specific industry sectors. Energy and technology stocks are just two examples of sectors that have performed well so far this year. Today, there are 205 industry sector ETFs and that doesn’t even include the 90 or so leveraged and short ETFs focused on specific sectors. Read more…
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