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Since late April, U.S. stock assets have labored in an extensive period of corrective activity. Bulls believe that the pullback is helping to restore health to the markets. They contend that the ”weak” always run for the hills, providing opportunity for savvy shoppers to buy great bargain companies at discounted prices. Bears explain that the lengthy period of [...] Continue Reading...

According to Investor’s Business Daily, countries like Malaysia, Columbia and Thailand have been percentage leader in world market performance. Can industrial demand in these Emerging Country ETFs foster bigger and better gains than hallmark emerging funds like Claymore BRIC (EEB)? Will the magnificent growth story in the developing world change the pervasive pessimism that has battered the developed markets? Five Country [...] Continue Reading...

You can fall in love with your wife, your children, your dog… even your New York Giants football team. But you should never fall in love with any of your investments. I can’t say that any one person gave me this advice. I can say that I’ve adhered to its core message since the ‘87 crash. It [...] Continue Reading...

Commodity ETFs have been showing resilience and relative market strength. Yet that doesn’t always result in super-sized returns for hard-asset producers. One writer goes on the record to explain why global forces may work against the steel companies. Dividend Stock ETFs and High Yield Bond ETFs may be attractive purchases on the “dips.” One Seeking Alpha author believes Preferred ETFs offer yet [...] Continue Reading...

The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released its survey of manufacturing activity on 9/1/10. The August Manufacturing Report on Business gave us its thirteenth consecutive month of expansion with a surprisingly robust reading of 56.3. Index readings higher than 50 indicate growth. “Boo-bears” are busy scouring the report for negative headlines to embrace. Construction spending decreased [...] Continue Reading...

Bloomberg recently reported that demand for gold increased 300% in the 6 months ending June 30th. The same report hypothesizes that India will increase its holdings in the yellow metal by 17x over the next 3 years. Granted, a wide range of Commodity ETFs are showing relative strength heading into September. But are Precious Metal ETFs as tempting as Industrial [...] Continue Reading...

Permabears love to talk about a “lack of conviction” on the part of the share purchasing public. Specifically, when upward momentum in stocks occurs on “low volume,” they dismiss the price movement outright. On Monday, 8/30/10, Dow stocks experienced a triple-digit pullback. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ both gave up more than 1.5%. However, with the trading [...] Continue Reading...

When the Beatles sang, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” who would have thought that the chorus might some day apply to U.S. stimulus spending. Indeed, the $862 billion hasn’t purchased much in the way of love for new employees. And as it currently stands, longer-term economic growth hinges on love for human resources. Consider an example that involves actual dollars. As part [...] Continue Reading...

Only 1 in 5 investors believe that stocks will rise over the next 6 months. With August unemployment data in the cross-hairs, would a strong showing this week bring bulls back to the ”risk trade?” Or would another “miss” push double-dip campers into Short ETFs? Some investments, however, have bucked the negative news and disheartening trends. Colombia (GXG) is up 42% in 2010… and this frontier [...] Continue Reading...

Higher Yielding ETFs, Bond ETFs, Telecom ETFs, Oil ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 8-29-10 Continue Reading...