February 10, 2013 – ETF Expert Radio Podcast
High Yield Corporate Bond ETFs, Europe & ETFs, Winter Storm Impact & ETFs, Japan & ETFs, Currency ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 2-10-2012 [...more]
High Yield Corporate Bond ETFs, Europe & ETFs, Winter Storm Impact & ETFs, Japan & ETFs, Currency ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 2-10-2012 [...more]
Far too frequently, commentators focus on one of two potential outcomes. For example, one writer may explain why riskier assets will navigate the fiscal cliff and rocket substantially higher into the New Year. Meanwhile, another may predict the collapse of market-based investing altogether, with the Dow plummeting 3000 points before Christmas. Greed and fear. Bull and [...] [...more]
European Debt Crisis and ETFs, Currency ETFs, Asia ETFs, Technology ETFs, Apple Stock and ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 10-14-2012 [...more]
Currency ETFs, European Crisis, Mining ETFs, Commodity ETFs, Gold ETFs, Food & Beverage ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 6-24-2012 [...more]
By several measures, investors are every bit as afraid today as they were in the first week of October, when U.S. stocks had reached 52-week lows. Yet the S&P 500 is 11.5% higher than it was on 10/3/11. How can we tell that investors are still petrified? They’re flocking back to the perceived safety of the U.S. dollar and piling back into [...] [...more]
In my 10/27/11 commentary, “3 Reasons Stock ETF Investors Should Continue To Tread Lightly,” I pointed to the fact that the month-long stock surge had not come from the spectacular earnings season; in fact, the average return for individual securities on the session following a Q3 earnings report was -0.21%, suggesting that the entire October run-up emanated from enthusiasm for pan-European cooperation. It follows that articles [...] [...more]
The SPDR S&P China Fund (GXC) fell -37% from an April high to an October low. That was nearly twice the top-to-bottom devastation for the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY). What’s more, the dramatic sell-off across all China ETFs met the commonplace definition of a bear market — a 20% drop from the peak. Often, commentators [...] [...more]
There is an erroenous assumption that some investors make about Dividend ETFs. For one thing, many mistakenly believe that a fund needs to be labeled as a dividend exchange-traded product to provide a high level of income. For another, many fail to look overseas. Granted, Vanguard Dividend Growth (VIG) is a fine example of capturing long-term [...] [...more]
Many analysts have now decided that Europe’s sovereign debt crisis will be ”worse than Lehman.” Only time will tell whether risk assets around the world will struggle as badly as they did when the global financial system “seized up” in late ‘08 through early ‘09. Yet investors should take note of a few differences in circumstances. First, U.S. [...] [...more]
Debt Deadlock ETFs, Gold ETFs, Currency ETFs, Commodity ETFs, Oil Services ETFs, Inverse Treasury ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 07-31-2011 [...more]