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Michael Johnston: ETFs have gathered more than $1 trillion in assets thanks to a number of structural advantages, including enhanced transparency, significant tax advantages, and intraday liquidity. But make no mistake about it: the ETF boom has been fueled in large part by an increased attention Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: US Stock Market Indexes have rallied into the initial resistance level accordingly, and now appear poised to break through these levels with the favorable outcome in the Greek election over the weekend. Read more…
Nilus Mattive: Back when my daughter was born in June of 2007, I used the occasion to talk about the simple investment strategy known as dollar-cost averaging. Read more…
Ben Gersten: Recent reports have indicated a downturn in the U.S. economy. Coupled with fears stemming from the Eurozone debt crisis, they’ve fueled speculation about “Recession 2013.” Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Back in 2005, even prior to being named Chairman of the Federal Reserve, B.S. Bernanke uttered the first of his Three Great Lies: the U.S. had a “Goldilocks economy”; where markets would keep going higher and higher forever, and the dreaded “R” word (recession) Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The market is sapping the strength of investors. Monday’s short-lived euphoria following the weekend bailout for Spanish banks will cause many bulls to understandably lose focus. Similarly, the bears were able to breathe a sigh of relief following a Monday morning scare in the futures market. Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Monitoring Market Internals – particularly Breadth – tends to be very helpful for short-term traders to asses market strength or weakness, particularly during a mature rally or decline. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Many people hype “the coming economic collapse” as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster. Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single Read more…
Daily Capitalist: Events in Europe are following the pattern seen in the U.S. several years ago. In Europe, financial crises in small countries are now giving way to crises in large ones. Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: Even as I write these words, the world’s largest economy — the E.U. — is coming unglued at the seams. The world’s second largest — the U.S. — is careening headlong toward a fiscal cliff that promises to gut its GDP. Read more…
Ron Rowland: A grand total of 1,465 ETPs were listed for trading as of May 31. The count consists of 1,249 ETFs and 216 ETNs. Just eight new products came to market in May and none closed. So far in 2012, Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: The past couple months have been a roller coaster ride for investors and traders. Overseas headline news has made investing and trading more difficult than normal because Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The markets have numerous unanswered questions to digest: Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: By all accounts, the U.S. dollar should be the functional equivalent of a Zimbabwean bill. The Fed has pumped trillions into the worldwide financial system as part of misguided stimulus efforts that should be incredibly inflationary. Read more…
Michael Snyder: What the Republican Party has done to fiscal conservatives over the past year and a half has been a betrayal so vast that it is difficult to find words to describe it. Read more…
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