Cool Video: How Tornadoes are Formed
This Cool Video was posted on The Atlantic and originally comes from NASA. It explains the origins of tornadoes. In a little less than four minutes you will have a better understanding of complex...
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Here's What The Stock Market's 6 Categories Of Investors Are Doing Right Now
We devote this commentary each week to assessing the many reasons markets may rise or fall. But at the heart of it, all markets come down to just one thing: buyers and sellers. Taking a look at who is...
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: Healthcare Shares Boost IHI And XLV
Wall Street regained some of its momentum today as investors digested the latest commentary from two Fed officials. Helping boost equities were a pair of speeches from St. Louis Fed President James...
View ArticleChallenging Investor Assumptions About Emerging Markets
By Dodd Kittsley, CFA, Head of Global ETP Market Trends Research It’s always a good idea to check in on your portfolio to make sure it’s still giving you the exposure you originally intended. But just...
View ArticleWednesday’s ETF Chart To Watch: GLD Rebound Hinges On FOMC Minutes
Stocks charged higher on Tuesday as stimulus hopes ahead of today’s FOMC minutes kept confidence levels afloat, while a sparse data front further paved the way higher for major equity benchmarks....
View ArticleGOLDMAN: 3 Reasons The S&P 500 Is Going To Surge To 2100
With a modestly positive economic environment, high profit margins, improving private investment, high budget deficits and a belief that stocks are cheap….the bulls get increasingly optimistic. This...
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Markets Are On The Verge of Euphoria
This guest post previously appeared at SoberLook.On its risk appetite index, Credit Suisse views the index value of 5 as "euphoria". And we are headed there, as markets embrace risk.This is not...
View ArticleCentral Bankers' Day
The US dollar is firmer against most of the major currencies, but is more mixed against the emerging market currencies. Although the US reports April existing home sales (consensus +1.4%), the focus is...
View ArticleThe Macro Story as Told by Gold, Copper and Oil
By EconMattersGold’s been on a wild ride. After reaching a peak of $1,920 an ounce in September 2011, gold has tumbled 28% to the current ~$1,380 level forcing John Paulson to take a 47% loss in his...
View ArticleVisual Risk Analysis Of The BICK Index Fund (BICK)
Interest in emerging market equities has grown rapidly over the years, as investors flock to this lucrative corner of the global market. In addition to providing diversification benefits, emerging...
View ArticleWhy Your Auto ETF Is Missing Out On Tesla’s (TSLA) Rally
After 10 years of business, Tesla is finally starting to gain traction in the U.S. market and will be posting profits for the first time since going public. There have been strong words on both sides...
View ArticleThere's Only One Way To Survive In Investing
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the...
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YARDENI: We're Witnessing 'Irrational Exuberance' In The European Stock Market
There does appear to be some irrational exuberance over in Europe. One of the greatest dichotomies in the global bull market in stocks is the stellar performance of European equity prices despite the...
View ArticleTry this experiment yourself…
May 22, 2013 London, England [Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management, is filling in for Simon today.]James Montier’s bible on behavioural...
View ArticleThere Are 2 Things Everyone Seems To Get Wrong About Japan
Japan reported April trade figures earlier today. Given the decline in the yen and the positive contribution of exports to Q1 GDP, it is a closely watched report. However, there are two profound...
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China’s IPO Drought: Will it Lift?
Following a flood of initial public offerings (IPOs) that lasted several years, China’s local A-share market has been in an IPO drought since late last year. There is some speculation China’s...
View ArticleUBS: Here Are 5 Assets That Look Like They're In A Bubble
This is a pretty good list from UBS on where the bubbles might be. I take issue with the first one, however as I definitely don’t think there’s a bubble in government bonds. Maybe Jeff Gundlach was...
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: TLT Tumbles On Fed Tapering Fears, XLB Slumps
Markets took their cue from Ben Bernanke today, as the chairman commented on the Fed’s monetary policy before the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee in Washington. Though Bernanke stated that the...
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GARTMAN: These 16 Rules Will Make You A Better Trader
1. Never, Ever, Ever, Under Any Circumstance, Add to a Losing Position… not ever, not never! Adding to losing positions is trading’s carcinogen; it is trading’s driving while intoxicated. It will lead...
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America Is Turning Into ‘Blade Runner With Food Stamps’
Walter Russell Mead outlines two possible futures for middle-class Americans: one where most of us lose“the race against the machine,”the other where smart government policies enable an eventual...
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