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The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. By David Gillie NEW YORK (ETF Digest) -- This week the market launched into a state of euphoria that we haven't seen since the announcement of QE2 and pre-crash highs of 2007. Better-than-expected jobs number was the Read More »
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow" ... Click to view a price quote on BA. Click to research the Aerospace/Defense industry. Read More »
By John CarneySenior Editor, CNBC.com NEW YORK (CNBC) -- The better-than-expected jobs numbers released Friday may mean rising taxes for many workers. January saw 247,000 new jobs added to the economy. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent. ... Read More »
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. By David Gillie NEW YORK (ETF Digest) -- Gold has lost it high status as the world's alternate currency. This was confirmed to me when the weekend repair guy came to fix the A/C and gave me a "hot tip" to buy Read More »
INDIANAPOLIS (MainStreet) -- Craft beer lovers love to boast about how their beer is booming while "yellow beer" fizzles, but on Super Bowl Sunday they're drowned out by Clydesdale hoofbeats. If craft beer and small, regional brewers are such a game-changing force in American beer, why are they completely absent from the Super Bowl's annual marketing blowout? With Anheuser-Busch now part of by B Read More »
The jobs report Friday was a ginned-up number but the media and algos don't look under the hood much it seems. Yes, the unemployment rate fell to 8.3% and 243K new jobs were created and perhaps the number itself will boost confidence. My favorite book from college statistics was 'How to Lie with Statistics'. I believe the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) may have ripped a chapter or two from Read More »
NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- The mainstream financial media may have caught a break in 2011. Neither the S&P 500 nor the Dow fell more than 20% from respective highs, meaning that nobody ran with the "Bear Is Back" headline. It follows that the March 2, 2009 lows still represent the start of a bull market uptrend. Not surprisingly, many have chosen to wistfully recollect the 90%-plus, since-inception Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Warren Buffett has been anything but shy when it comes to expressing his optimistic view towards the U.S. economy. Whether it is through newspapers, television interviews, or face-to-face interactions like his annual shareholder's meeting, the billionaire investor has remained unwavering in his bullish projections for years. Adhering to the mantra that investors should, Read More »
INDIANAPOLIS (MainStreet) -- Super Bowl Sunday is a melange of full-contact sport, carpet-bombed advertising and pizza/wing/chip-fueled gluttony for the more than 110 U.S. million viewers who tune in. For the rest of the country, it's just Sunday. The NFL, NBC and dozens of advertisers and retail outlets really want America to believe that the world grinds to a halt on Super Bowl Sunday and any Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The materials sector represents the well-springs of industrial growth given the demand for raw materials found in base metals and even petroleum. Weak stocks in the sector equate well with the state of manufacturing conditions. Another important factor to consider is ZIRP (global central bankers' low interest rate policies) which is designed to stimulate economic condit Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Throughout the financial crisis the Scandinavian countries have proven out to be fiscally very sound with low debt-to-GDP ratios and much sounder banking systems due to having had their own banking crisis 20 years ago. Lately, fund provider iShares has been making it easier to access the region having just listed the iShares MSCI Norway Capped Investable Index Fund to g Read More »
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (The FRED Report) -- Here at The FRED Report we recently completed a review of the currency ETFs and we noticed some interesting technical patterns we will discuss here (for general markets update video -- cl Read More »
BOSTON (MainStreet) -- The grim prospect for aging New Yorkers: One-third of them won't have enough money to retire comfortably. That's according to a study released Thursday by New York City Comptroller John C. Liu and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School in Greenwich Village. One-third of New Yorkers won't have enough money to retire comfortably, accordin Read More »
The same can't be said for the energy and most precious metals as Bernanke gives the complex the green light. The Fed wants to reflate and if that's what they want, traders will accommodate them. You want to pay more for energy don't you? Thankfully it's not in the phony CPI because authorities want you to pretend you neither use heating oil, gasoline or even food for that matter. They've recon Read More »
BOSTON (MainStreet) -- Financial advisers are looking more at "behavioral finance" -- how people's thinking affects their money management. Successful saving and investing often comes down to having the right approach. But the right moves to make, on paper, often don't translate into the actual steps we take. Emotions and personality traits can help or hinder investing and financial planning. Read More »
  For some investors a "one size fits all" approach can be more compelling. After all, it's easier to deal with just one ETF in a sector than trying to deal with many different subsectors. Lastly, some investors feel they just don't have the resources to chop their allocation into many different ETFs devoted to bonds. ... Click to view a price quote on BSV. Read More »
. The Fed will make its policy announcement Wednesday and this should keep volume light and markets tense until then. They'll make their announcement, hold a press conference and then various Fed Governors will be out on the hustings to "sell it". Apple's earnings are front and center after the bell and came in up 118% blowing away estimates. There must have been an iPhone, Macbook Pro and an Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet ) -- Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, was one of those disappointed when Texas governor Rick Perry dropped out of the 2012 presidential race. Forbes endorsed Perry in October 2011 and was a big proponent of his 20% flat tax. Forbes hasn't endorsed another Republican candidate, but did say that he would support whomever the nominee turned out to Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- As it looks at increasing its stake in a brokerage joint venture with Citigroup , Morgan Stanley is putting the unit's British wealth management Quilter division up for sale to private equity buyers, according the Reuters and Sky News reports citing unnamed sources. If Morgan Stanley were to cut a Quilter sale -- and increase in its Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) ven Read More »
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. By David Gillie ... Click to view a price quote on URA. Click to research the Financial Services industry. Read More »
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- With the S&P 500 garnering 4.6% in less than three weeks, are money managers becoming skittish? If hundreds of millions flowing out of a few select ETFs is any indication, then the answer is, " Read More »
Let's not kid around, IBM is nearly an 11% weight in the price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average. What happens to it on any given trading day matters and can potentially mislead investors over the true performance of markets overall.  This is why the DJIA is often referred to as "window dressing for the tourists" and why most market strategists focus on the S&P 500 Index instead. Read More »
INDIAPOLIS (MainStreet) -- Super Bowl commercial time is sold out, but there are still some companies out there that could benefit from some big-game ad time. Earlier this month, well before the final matchup was decided, Super Bowl XLVI broadcaster NBC announced that all of this year's game day ad space had been bought up. The network claims it fetched $3.5 million per 30-second ad this year, w Read More »
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. By David Gillie NEW YORK (ETF Digest) -- Another holiday week brought volume so low it's difficult to speak of the bulls in the plural. Nevertheless, the bull(s) continued the run with only minor setbacks on any bad Read More »
The primary news pushing stocks higher Wednesday was hard to put together. Some were pleased by eurozone reports the IMF was proposing to add $500 billion to the bailout facility bringing the total to nearly $1 trillion. Such a move would require congressional approval if we still have a constitution and the rule of law. Anyway, that idea was shot down by the U.S. Treasury. Goldman Sachs ( Read More »
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