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Hate the Sell-Off? Raise Your Total Yield And Reduce Your International Exposure

2012-05-16T22:35:04Z

How bad is the current correction? It depends upon the assets you currently hold. Here are the top 8 ETF positions for moderate risk clients at my Registered Investment Adviser, Pacific Park Financial, Inc.: Moderate Portfolio: Percentages Below Respective Highs Approx...

Real Estate, Pharma and Dividend ETFs Defy Bearish Predictions

2012-05-15T20:27:32Z

Citigroup’s Tom Fitzpatrick asserted that the U.S. market is emulating the pattern of a 1970s-style bear. The company’s chief technical analyst suggested that stocks would likely fall 20% or more on economic factors like sky-rocketing oil, declining economic activity, rising...

3 Foreign ETFs Should Rocket Once Europe’s Central Bank Signs Up For More Easing

2012-05-11T21:14:15Z

There are times when the U.S. dollar tells investors all they need to know… at least in the short term. For example, the fact that the PowerShares DB US$ Dollar Bullish Fund (UUP) gained ground for 9 consecutive days is an expression of serious doubt in Europe’s finances as well as its...

Investors Grant Immunity To These 5 Stock ETFs

2012-05-09T22:23:48Z

Until recently, investors showed little interest in hedging against a potential collapse in the S&P 500. Some might have even described the environment as complacent with the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX) spending most of the year in the “mid-teens.” Now the VIX is back...

Why 36 Bond ETFs Hitting 52-Week Highs May Be Bad For Bonds Rather Than Stocks

2012-05-08T22:42:46Z

I’ve never been shy about criticizing the momentum-based mutual fund ratings or fair value estimates at Morningstar. At this moment, however, it’s the cynic in me — not the critic — who is taking note of a “NEW” section at the information provider’s web...

Are NASDAQ 100 ETFs Extremely Cheap?

2012-05-07T22:30:00Z

Before the bell on Monday, 5/7/2012, Warren Buffett announced that he’d eagerly acquire shares in two major U.S. corporations. Yet tech standouts like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) aren’t on his “buy list.” Maybe they should be. According to Birinyi Associates, the current price-to-earnings ratio...

All-World ETFs Signal Downtrend For Foreign Stocks

2012-05-04T22:04:19Z

Foreign stocks returned to their winning ways in the first 10 weeks of 2012. By mid-March, however, economic data out of China started to demonstrate sluggishness. A rapid rise in Spanish bond yields began threatening the country’s ability to manage its own finances. And European interbank...

What The New 52-Week Lows In iShares MSCI Spain (EWP) Tell Us

2012-05-02T22:18:34Z

On Tuesday, 5/1/2012, CNBC trumpeted the Dow’s highest close since December of 2007. On Wednesday, the media giant celebrated the price-weighted index’s ability to shrug off weaker-than-anticipated employment data in the United States. There are reasons to be pleased with the progress...

Bets On Bond ETFs In Spite Of Manufacturing “Renaissance”

2012-05-01T18:53:26Z

Doug Kass, prominent helmsman at Seabreeze Partners and frequent commentator at CNBC, embraces social media. In fact, Mr. Kass tweets roughly 8-10 times throughout the day. Yesterday (4/30), Mr. Kass tweeted that his largest investment was short bonds, and he listed Inverse Bond ETFs like ProShares...

The Popularity Of Treasury Bond ETFs: Investor Fear Or Federal Reserve Intervention?

2012-04-27T20:44:07Z

The iShares 20+ U.S. Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) has often exhibited wider daily trading swings than the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY). This quirk alone has made it difficult for me to embrace the long end of the treasury bond curve. Instead, I’ve been more apt to stick with...