When the U.S. dollar moves, it can have a remarkable effect. For example, commodity prices rise when the dollar falls. Serious investors should know which direction the recent moves in the dollar are. Here are a number of intrguing ETF features for August 19, 2009: Barclays’s iShares Plans Chile ETF Listings Next Year- James Attwood, Bloomberg The Rise Of Synthetic ETFs - Izabella Kaminska, [...] Continue Reading...
Trade-ability is one of the premier features of exchange-traded funds. Yet studies on how investors choose to exercise the right to buy-n-sell, rather than buy-n-hold, are only now coming to light. Yan Zilbering and Donald Bennyhoff of the Vanguard Group recently came up with several intriguing observations on the trading of ETFs. Yet their conclusions focused on some of the [...] Continue Reading...
Ask the millions of Americans who have been affected by the housing collapse about real estate, and you’re likely to hear a whole lotta grumbling. With negative sentiment climbing, yet prices stabilizing, is there a reason to consider real estate-related ETFs? Here are a number of specialized ETF-themed features for August 18, 2009: Art Index Created To Track Post-War Art - ETF Express Next Up: Pure-Play Housing [...] Continue Reading...
Not surprisingly, there was a great deal of excitement that surrounded the inaugural trading day of the Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM). The new vehicle began its journey on Friday, August 14, 2009. Certainly, VNM gives you an inside track on a fast-growing Asian economy. In 2008, Vietnam grew at a 6.5% clip. Even in recession-ravaged ‘09, the IMF has forecasted 5% [...] Continue Reading...
Prior to the global recession, the shipping industry was exceptionally profitable for many investors. Some of the “Greek Shippers” had been trading like dot.com stocks from 1999. More recently, however, the ETF representing this segment was one of the hardest hitby the global economic downturn. With the reflation of the global industrial cycle, is now the time to get back into [...] Continue Reading...
With silver climbing 34% on the year and gold up 9%, you may wish to rethink your approach to inflation hedging. Today, we look at one theory to use the “other” precious meta. On a separate note, REIT ETFs have surged off of the March lows. But do the facts at hand point towards further growth or a time to tighten stop [...] Continue Reading...
How long have we been talking about overbought conditions in the exchange-traded fund universe? Still, you never know when the investment community will decide to turn cautious. Sure, you’ll read about how the consumer isn’t quite ready to spend. Yet that was evident when markets hit 10-month highs 2 trading sessions ago. In fact, one could easily make the case [...] Continue Reading...
For some, the bear markets of 2000 – 2002 and 2007 – 2009 may have been discouraging enough to stay away from stock investing forever. What these people may be overlooking is the fact that history is on the side of those with a sound investment strategy. Today, we look at one method for creating a portfolio using ETFs. We [...] Continue Reading...
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Richard Shaw of the QVM Group compiled an excellent review of asset classes at the half-way point in August, 2009. Specifically, Mr. Shaw analyzed domestic, foreign and emerging market bonds and stocks, as well as trends in currencies and commodities. In spite of questionable economic progress around the world, most market-based ETFs are trending definitively higher. [...] Continue Reading...
