ETF Pop Quiz: Spain, State Street, and Solar Energy
After another week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about Spain, State Street, and Solar Energy.As always, all answers can be found using the suite of...
View ArticleCool Video: Understanding Parallel Universes in Five Minutes
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KAESONG: Where 51,000 North Koreans Come To Work For 120 South Korean Companies
There is a North Korean factory with no portraits of the country's late leaders on the walls, no North Korean flags, no hand-painted posters screaming party slogans. Everything from the tissues to the...
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Experts Remain Skittish On Bitcoin As Prices Continues To Rise
[Editor's note: Bitcoin prices are currently at $158]Some call it the most famous pizza purchase in history: In May 2010, a programmer called Laszlo asked an online forum if anyone would buy him a...
View ArticleTwo Developments over the Weekend: Portugal and Italy
There have been two new developments over the weekend whose implications are worth considering ahead of the opening the markets. In Portugal, after the markets closed on Friday, the Constitutional...
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Krugman-Estonia Twitter Feud Over Euro Crisis Is Turned Into An Opera
“Fiscal stimulus trumps. Increased public debt. Devalue!” You’d expect to hear that in a debate between economic policymakers, perhaps — not a rehearsal by musicians practicing to stage an opera.But...
View ArticleThat Dreadful Day
For the moment, the trend seems pretty clear. Money from far and wide rushes into the US stock markets because every other conceivable place to stash money produces no return, no interest, no...
View ArticleThe Ugly Chart Contest
Beyond the Dow, S&P500, and Japanese stocks the major global equity indices have been carving out some fairly ugly charts.It’s becoming increasingly difficult to extract market signals as the...
View ArticleMasters Week: Who’s Your Caddy?
Answer to yesterday’s Masters quiz question:Fruitland Nurseries occupied the land that was purchased to build Augusta National Golf Club. Read more here:...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: British Debt over the Centuries
This Great Graphic was in the UK's Guardian newspaper and brought to our attention by Edward Harrison at Credit Writedowns. It shows UK national debt as a percentage of GDP since the late 1600s....
View Article3 ETFs To Watch This Week: GLD, EWU, XRT
The bulls and the bears continued their tug-of-war last week, as investors digested a slew of economic news from around the globe. Disappointing ISM and labor data weighed heavily on the markets, with...
View ArticleMacro Overview
The global capital markets continue to adjust to ideas that monetary policy is loosening again. Of course the Bank of Japan's announcement last week is important, but the also consider that the ECB...
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Malware Turns Hacked Computers Into Slaves That 'Mine' Bitcoins
The digital currency Bitcoin is having a bit of a moment, which is drawing the attention of cybercriminals. They don’t want to steal your money (though there is some of that too). Instead they want to...
View ArticleHow Global Is Your Natural Resources ETF?
Investments in commodities and natural resources has long been a popular portfolio allocation strategy, as this corner of the market has the potential to offer lucrative and uncorrelated returns. While...
View ArticleSkating Where the Puck Was
This is the title of a “mini-book” by William Bernstein. I just came across a review of it by Larry Swedroe. I haven’t yet read Mr. Bernstein’s book (I just ordered it this morning) but Swedroe’s...
View ArticleETF Bracket Madness: Penultimate Pair
We’re down to our final two ETFs in our ETF Bracket Madness tournament, as the Fanatic Four battled it out last week. With so many underdogs making it through the ranks, it was anyone’s game, and this...
View ArticleThe next domino: Australia doubles tax on retirement savings
Though Australia’s national balance sheet is comparatively quite strong, the government has been running at a net deficit for years… and they’re under intense pressure to balance the budget.The good...
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YARDENI: A Reliable Indicator Of Personal Incomes Just Hit An All-Time High
I wasn’t disappointed by Friday’s employment report because I don’t pay all that much attention to the preliminary payroll estimate for the latest month, which was only 88,000 for March. Rather, I give...
View ArticleCool Video: CNBC Traders' Buzz
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KEITH JUROW: The US Housing Recovery Is A Mirage And A Serious Delinquency...
Housing analyst Keith Jurow has been a regular contributor to Business Insider for almost three years. His new real estate subscription service – Capital Preservation Real Estate Report– will launch in...
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