ETF Market Quarterly Wrap: The First Half of 2015 is Behind Us
Global stocks bounced back on Tuesday, but U.S. stock exchange-traded funds have been sluggish through the first half of 2015. Small-cap and growth stocks are doing best. Bonds are doing…
Current News on the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Just a few days before the vast majority of Puerto Rico bond payments are due, the rhetoric coming from the island has turned decidedly negative, based on a governor-commissioned study…
Trian Fund Takes Activist Pentair Stake
Nelson Peltz's activist firm Trian Fund Management has filed a 13D with the SEC regarding shares of Pentair (PNR). Per the filing, Trian now owns 7.24{01de1f41f0433b1b992b12aafb3b1fe281a5c9ee7cd5232385403e933e277ce6} of the company with…
Investor Appetite for Mutual Funds Cools – Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalInvestor Appetite for Mutual Funds CoolsWall Street JournalAfter years spent piling into stock and bond mutual funds, mom-and-pop investors are putting on the brakes—reflecting anxiety that the rally…
Investors flee China funds in historic rush
Chinese funds just experienced the biggest exodus of money ever as investors abruptly pulled out roughly $7 billion over the past week.
ETF Investing: Big winners in 2015’s first half: Chinese and biotech ETFs
While Chinese stocks have slumped this month, they’re still leaders when it comes to year-to-date performance. Biotech funds also dominate a list of top-performing nonleveraged ETFs.
Down due to an injurey
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Stay or Go?
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 The Euro suffered heavy losses Sunday night, as Greece pondered whether or not the country will remain part of the currency union. German Finance Minister Wolfgang…
Taking the “wreck” out of reckless
Image: Johnny Magrippis https://www.flickr.com/photos/magrippinho/ CC BY-NC-SA/2.0/ Rob Callender with the third of three posts on the emerging Centennials generation: Youth is a time to embrace life with passion: Nearly three-quarters…
The Global Economic Train Appears Poised to Pull Others Forward!
From our perspective, the Greek situation has not only become irksome, it has also served hold back the global recovery effort unnecessarily and has been keeping the US dollar at…
What’s Driving Markets Today
While U.S. stocks managed to eke out modest gains last week, it wasn’t without some violent swings along the way. The gyrations can partly be attributed to mixed economic data,…
Continues to Ooze sweet
I wrote about this company as "The only company I like in Australia" two years backhttps://multibaggersindia.blogspot.com/2013/09/roe.htmlFor a developed country, it offered decent growth and was below the radar. Sadly, I…
Week End Blog – with Sharks, Fertility Rates, Chinese Gravity , and… Greece
Last week I surrendered and dedicated most of my blog to Greece. Perhaps that was under the (unknowingly) naive assumption that Greece would have gone away by now. But, of…
Looking for Income in All the Right Places
Investors and advisors know they can’t depend solely on the old standbys—bonds, high-dividend stocks and cash—to produce income today, and they’re ready to try a new approach. But which one?
Talking TXT
Similar to texting, real estate can have a language all of its own. The December Properties magazine discusses some of the more common terms.
Stock Market Breadth Not Overly Healthy
Our job as stock market investors is to know where we stand not just on our stocks…but the whole market. My model went to cash on the SP 500 Friday.…
3 Niche Technology ETF’s You Don’t Know About and Are Worth Owning
Every day I am more and more amazed by not only the number of ETF's available to investors, but how specific their investment strategies have become. The ETF industry has…
Copper futures crumble on economic uncertainty
Copper futures fall back on worries over Greece and China
Grexit: Hope For The Worst?
Are we experiencing the beginning of the end for the euro? For roughly three years, it seems as though politicians have been kicking the can down the road, putting off…
Squawk: GREECE TO SEND NEW LETTER WITH FRESH PROPOSALS: EU OFFICAL
GREECE TO SEND NEW LETTER WITH FRESH PROPOSALS: EU OFFICAL