Jan. 29: The Best ETF Articles In The National Media
Posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | In Exchange Traded Funds
Hedge Fund Manager Einhorn Buying Gold
Despite years of resisting the yellow metal, famed hedge fund manager David Einhorn is finally joining the ranks of gold bugs worldwide and plunging into the market.
As John Spence notes in his MarketWatch.com blog citing a Bloomberg News article, the hedge fund Einhorn controls is buying the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD).
You can read his blog here.
Invesco Revamps With PowerShares
This interesting look at the rebound by asset manager Invesco, parent of PowerShares, includes comments by its chief executive about why the mutual fund giant decided to get into the exchange-traded funds market.
The excellent piece, written by MarketWatch.com’s Sam Mamudi, also appears this morning in the sister Wall Street Journal. You can read the story here.
Dollar Gaining Momentum?
In this article in the Chicago Tribune, Andrew Leckey notes that an index tracking the U.S. dollar against other major world currencies last year gained 7%. He also observes that the PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Index Bullish was up 5% in 2008.
Fundamental market and economic conditions appear ripe to support more upward movement by the U.S. dollar in 2009, experts tell Leckey.
You can read the story here.
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