Ron Rowland: As you may have heard, debt-ridden nations face sharply higher borrowing costs. Spain’s ten-year government bonds are closing in on the 7 percent level. Read more…

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Michael Johnston: As the ETF universe has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, investors now have tools at their disposal to accomplish almost objective. From plain vanilla stock and bond indexes to hyper-targeted regional and sector funds, there are ETFs to bet on just about every asset class. Read more…

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Stoyan Bojinov:  U.S. Treasuries were the talk of the town in 2011 as this asset class shielded investors from the rampant volatility that ripped through equity markets as debt woes on both sides of the Read more…

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