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iShares Files For Global TIPS ETF
Fri, Sep 3, 5:16 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

At the end of 2009 inflation was clearly on the minds of investors around the ...

Some Good Looking Numbers Today, But Are We In For A Sucker’s Rally?
Thu, Sep 2, 7:16 PM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

As today was the first Thursday of the month, August comp sales were out in ...

Third Time the Charm? SPX and the Daily Rally Pattern
Thu, Sep 2, 6:41 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom

The markets for some reason are much more sensitive to pattern repetition lately – so ...

High Yielding Verizon Inches Dividend Higher
Thu, Sep 2, 6:15 PM ET, by eDividendStocks.com

Verizon Communications (VZ: 30.11 -0.50%) announced today that the company is increasing their quarterly dividend ...

iShares Debuts New Zealand ETF (ENZL)
Thu, Sep 2, 1:16 PM ET, by Michael Johnston

With equity markets declining in much of the developed world, many investors have put a ...

September Edition Of ETF Edge Now Available
Thu, Sep 2, 12:16 PM ET, by Michael Johnston

The September issue of ETF Edge, the monthly ETF Newsletter, is now available to ETFdb ...

Trichet and Bernanke Set To Speak Thursday Morning
Thu, Sep 2, 12:11 PM ET, by ForexTraders.com

Two of the most powerful people in the world will speak Thursday morning concerning the ...

Three ETFs George Soros Might Like
Thu, Sep 2, 11:56 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

With housing markets in a tailspin, ongoing concerns over the fiscal health of developed markets, ...

Barclays VEQTOR ETN (VQT) Begins Trading
Thu, Sep 2, 11:32 AM ET, by Bill Luby

Both volatility traders and long-term investors should be interested to know that Barclays launched the ...

A Little Caution Signal from Current Market Internals
Thu, Sep 2, 11:31 AM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom

What are market internals saying about the recent rally? They strengthened with a positive divergence ...

VEQTOR ETN (VQT) Begins Trading
Thu, Sep 2, 11:22 AM ET, by Bill Luby

Both volatility traders and long-term investors should be interested to know that Barclays launched the ...

August ETF Roundup: Launches, Filings, and Closures
Thu, Sep 2, 10:36 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

As the summer winds down, apparently so too does the impressive pace of expansion in ...

Economic Info Galore This Morning, But Futures Not Reacting Much
Thu, Sep 2, 9:16 AM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

September-2-2010 Morning Notes - Futures are flattish this AM - S&P futures up about 4 ...

Milestones Past, Present and Future
Thu, Sep 2, 2:32 AM ET, by Bill Luby

Several different milestones seem to be converging in time at the moment and I thought ...

Sector Detector: Weak Market Finds Support
Thu, Sep 2, 0:56 AM ET, by Scott Martindale, Sabrient.com

Bulls put up a valiant offensive in the last 20 minutes of trading on Tuesday ...

DARK HORSE HEDGE - Any Way the Wind Blows, Doesn't Really Matter
Wed, Sep 1, 8:46 PM ET, by Sabrient.com

Housing-keeping note: Thanks to Wordpress’s destruction of Phil’s Favorites site (and replacement with an invite ...

Thinking Ahead to Friday- Shoot Me Now
Wed, Sep 1, 7:26 PM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

It’s hard for me to get excited about today’s rally. I instantly want to point ...

Having Conviction and Waiting for Confirmation
Wed, Sep 1, 6:56 PM ET, by Zachary G. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

Today the market opened up approximately 3.5 handles and rallied modestly during the first half ...

How UNG Lost 23% In August
Wed, Sep 1, 4:16 PM ET, by Michael Johnston

The United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) is truly one-of-a-kind, not only as a commodity ...

Bullish U.S., China PMIs, Lead to an Equity and Commodity Market Rally
Wed, Sep 1, 4:11 PM ET, by ForexTraders.com

Stocks in China, HK, Japan, US, SouthAmerica, Europe and elsewhere were up today, commodities also ...

Are You Watching this Monthly Price Level on Google GOOG?
Wed, Sep 1, 12:41 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom

It’s often helpful to pull the timeframe back to see what the weekly and sometimes ...

ETFdb TV: Lithium, Emerging Market Debt, and Fund Filings & Closures
Wed, Sep 1, 11:46 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

Today, we present the second episode of ETFdb TV. Here’s the first episode in case ...

Euro Breaks Out Of Range on Global Risk Appetite
Wed, Sep 1, 10:21 AM ET, by ForexTraders.com

After nearly 2 weeks of trading within a tight 150 pip range, the euro broke ...

Sugar ETF: Hello Backwardation!
Wed, Sep 1, 10:16 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

Along with any successful product–financial or otherwise–comes a surge in interest and increase in scrutiny. ...

Positive Data Overseas Boost Markets
Wed, Sep 1, 8:56 AM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

September-1-2010 Morning Notes - S&P futures up about 14 handles from FV - Strength in ...

Major Moves Aug: New Listings Fly High, Other Stagnate, Filings Slow
Wed, Sep 1, 7:11 AM ET, by Shishir Nigam, ActiveETFs | InFocus

August, a typically slow month for North American markets marking the end of the summer, ...

Where The Money Is Being Made in the Junior Oil Market - And Why
Tue, Aug 31, 8:46 PM ET, by Keith Schaefer, Oil and Gas Investments Newsletter

The stock charts of domestic plays in the Canadian junior oil market are showing no ...

Apple Event Preview
Tue, Aug 31, 7:36 PM ET, by Jeff T. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

Everyone in the Tech World is waiting for one thing tomorrow and that's the Apple ...

Go Shopping This Labor Day Weekend
Tue, Aug 31, 7:16 PM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

So comp sales are creeping up on us again with the numbers for August out ...

Rock Solid Yields: Dividend Growth Stocks and Some for the Stock Watch.
Tue, Aug 31, 6:36 PM ET, by Ron Rutherford, Sabrient.com

One of our readers sent in the following link to discuss: 3 Stocks Poised for ...

Top Dow Dividend Stocks: August 2010
Tue, Aug 31, 4:55 PM ET, by eDividendStocks.com

The markets shifted back into sell mode in August with the Dow Jones index dropping ...

Stocks and Risky Currencies Fall, Gold Jumps on PBOC Rumors, Moody`s Comments
Tue, Aug 31, 3:31 PM ET, by ForexTraders.com

Yesterday's Asian session saw a lot of activity and was generally dominated by sales, but ...

Three International ETFs Facing Shrinking Populations
Tue, Aug 31, 3:16 PM ET, by Michael Johnston

As the world population continues to expand at a tremendous pace, investors have begun to ...

Breakout in Precious Metals, Pay Attention to High Quality Explorers
Tue, Aug 31, 2:41 PM ET, by Jeb Handwerger

The global debt crisis and the war on deflation by the Federal Reserve is causing ...

I See a Pattern Forming in SP500 and So Should You
Tue, Aug 31, 1:51 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom

It’s the same price pattern I’ve been highlighting for quite some time now, but perhaps ...

Talking ETF Liquidity, Flash Crash Fallout, And More With Paul Weisbruch
Tue, Aug 31, 11:36 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

Paul Weisbruch is the VP of ETF/Options Sales and Trading at Street One Financial, a ...

Pound and Euro Price Action Points To Possible Further Downside Movement
Tue, Aug 31, 11:21 AM ET, by ForexTraders.com

The EUR/USD and GBP/USD have both continued to move inside of relatively tight trading ranges ...

India ETFs: Warning Signs In GDP Report?
Tue, Aug 31, 10:46 AM ET, by Michael Johnston

If investors weren’t already aware of the tremendous “growth gap” between the developed and emerging ...

BoJ Intervention Talk Leads Nowhere, Stock Markets Fall on Weak Income Data
Tue, Aug 31, 10:31 AM ET, by ForexTraders.com

Gold and the dollar were, up while currencies like the Euro depreciated against others on ...

Weakness Across All Equity Markets, Nikkei Hits 15-Month Low
Tue, Aug 31, 8:56 AM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

August-31-2010 Morning Notes - S&P futures down about 8 handles from FV this morning - ...

More Top Emerging Markets ETFs
Tue, Aug 31, 2:12 AM ET, by Bill Luby

Entirely by accident, the theme of the last two charts of the week has been ...

Where the King of Natural Gas Forecasting Says Prices Are Headed
Mon, Aug 30, 8:16 PM ET, by Keith Schaefer, Oil and Gas Investments Newsletter

First Energy analyst Martin King - whom I believe has called the natural gas market ...

What the Market Wants: (Rabid) Dog Days of Summer Drawing to a Close
Mon, Aug 30, 7:46 PM ET, by David Brown, Sabrient.com

The low-volume "dog days of summer" have been anything but uneventful. Rather than a sleeping ...

Widening Your Field of Vision
Mon, Aug 30, 7:16 PM ET, by Zachary G. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

Today the Industrials book closed down $3,249 and went out with an absolute value of ...

Patience
Mon, Aug 30, 6:46 PM ET, by Jeff T. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

The Technology/Telecom book managed to outperform the NASDAQ and the XLK (Select Sector Technology ETF) ...

What the Market Wants: Dog Days of Summer Sliding to a Close
Mon, Aug 30, 6:46 PM ET, by David Brown, Sabrient.com

About the only thing good we can say about last week was that we had ...

Rock Solid Yields: Update.
Mon, Aug 30, 5:27 PM ET, by Ron Rutherford, Sabrient.com

It certainly was a good day for the bears and not so good for long ...

Boring, But Unusual Day in the Market
Mon, Aug 30, 4:56 PM ET, by Betty L. - Freshman Equities Trader, Hedge Fund Live

Although today proved to be yet another slow summer day (I can only imagine what ...

Japanese Yen Hits Another 15 Year High Against the Greenback
Mon, Aug 30, 4:41 PM ET, by ForexTraders.com

Amid a buzz of speculation over whether the Bank of Japan would intervene, the Japanese ...

Jackson Hole Symposium Reassures Markets and Boosts Greenback
Mon, Aug 30, 3:51 PM ET, by ForexTraders.com

For every year since 1978 the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City had held an ...

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