Oil ETFs: Worth Investing In Anticipation of a Price Rebound?
By The Sun: Last week, I talked about CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) and how the fund was hammered after oil prices plunged. Currently traded around $37 a barrel, crude oil prices have lost more than $100...
View ArticleBank Failures, 2009 Edition: Three and Counting
By The Sun: 2009 is less than one month old, yet there are already a few banks being closed, picking up what was left from last year. A total of 25 banks were shut down in 2008. So far in 2009, three...
View ArticleRiding the Gold and Silver Uptrend with ETFs
By The Sun: As I mentioned earlier, gold has had a tremendous run lately. The main force behind the gold rally is the deterioration of economies around world. Despite the passage of the $789 billion...
View ArticleLearning from Elder's Trading Method's
By The Sun: The first shares I ever bought were in Nortel (NT), the Canadian telecom which filed for bankruptcy protection recently. When I bought the stock, more than six years ago, I didn’t know much...
View ArticleFebruary Wrap-Up: 252 Banks on FDIC Watch List, Gold Pull Back, Dow Declines...
By The Sun: Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) released its last quarter banking profile (PDF) of 2008 and the banking sector is still very weak, despite hundreds of billions of dollars...
View ArticleIs the Market Really Like a Political Tracking Poll?
By The Sun: President Obama is definitely trying very hard to boost the nation’s confidence. After his massive economic stimulus plan failed to impress investors about the prospective of a speedy...
View ArticleChina ETFs: World's Third Largest Economy in the Spotlight
By The Sun: The economic crisis around the world has put China under the spotlight. The world’s third largest economy, who also holds nearly $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserve, has started to use...
View ArticleIPOs on Deck: Rosetta Stone, Bridgepoint Education
By The Sun: The U.S. IPO market is pretty much dried up. In 2008, a total of 43 companies went public, only 8 in the second half of the year, according to a report from Renaissance Capital, as the...
View ArticleWhat the CARD Act of 2009 Means for Consumers
By The Sun: The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 earlier this week. The House, which already passed its own version of...
View ArticleAll ETF Portfolio Performance - The Power of Dollar Cost Averaging
By The Sun: Back in August 2008, I designed a diversified, all-ETF portfolio before the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the huge sell-off of the stock market. The goal I had in mind when I built...
View ArticleWhat Recovery? Unemployment at 25-Year High
By The Sun: Despite signs that the economy has started to recover, U.S. employers continued to cut workers. In the latest employment report released Friday morning, the Labor Department said nonfarm...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in the Coming Decade
By The Sun: Financially, the decade of the 2000s was one that most people would probably like to forget. We kicked off the decade with the bursting of the tech bubble and the events of 9/11. Along the...
View ArticleHow Did Chinese IPOs Perform in 2009?
By The Sun: After a dismal year in 2008, the U.S. IPO market recovered a little bit in 2009. According to Renaissance Capital, there were a total of 63 deals last year, up more than a third from the...
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