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A Bullish Prognosis for Global Healthcare

Mike Havrilla — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:50:00 +0000

The table presented above compares and contrasts the two healthcare ETFs, based on Yahoo! Finance statistics as of the market close on July, 2, 2008.Despite concerns over the health of the domestic economy along with surging food and energy prices, th...

In a Category All Its Own

QualityStocks — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Since exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were first introduced in 1993, interest in them has grown steadily. In one year alone, ETF assets increased by a staggering 49% to reach $588.2 billion. Although ETFs resemble index mutual funds, they actually have a lot in common with individual shares of stock. ETFs can be purchased on margin, sold short, [...]

But How Do You Hedge Against Commodities?

The Energy Report — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:44:25 +0000

Source: Mineweb.com 06/09/2008 Since the onset of the so-called supercycle, around early 2002, commodities have increasingly gained the reputation of being a hedge against everything – except, now, so it seems, commodities. In the past few days, crude oil prices have surged into unchartered territory, close to $140 per barrel, closer to an as-yet unknown “choke [...]

Difference between ETF and ETN.

Vlada Kynsky — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Exchange traded funds (ETF) and Exchange traded notes (ETN) are derivatives underlying investment assets (stocks, indexes, commodities etc.). Issuer are big investment banks.

ETF represents in fact ownership for underlying assets. Therefore especially big institutional holders could and also do asking to redeem their ETF position for underlying stocks. This makes ETF price staying closely along underlying stocks. For example this is not the case for Closed end funds - CEF.

Contrary ETN is kind of structured product issued as a debt note. And that's why credit risk is here. Of course nobody really expect Barclays' goes bankrupt. ETN are lack of tracking risk. It means that price exactly reflects underlying index. ETF can differ from NAV.

FRO’s Debut Today

Faisal Laljee — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:00 +0000

I got an email today from American Stock Exchange that I wanted to pass along:AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF FIXED RETURN OPTIONS (FROs) ON THURSDAY MAY 8, 2008 New York , May 1, 2008 – The American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) announced to...

ETF Rotation Strategies

Investment Education Staff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:43:04 +0000

With so many exchange traded funds available now, it has become possible to maximize investment return by creating a strategy that rotates assets between exchange traded funds - such a technique can permit a trader to find sectors that are increasing in price no matter what the current market climate is.

Current Sector Recommendations

Jeffrey Miller — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:13:58 +0000

Today we begin a new type of report: The Sector Update. We will post on a weekly basis the holdings and results of Vince Castelli’s TCA-ETF model. This is an inside look at how a trading model has been developed and implemented, information that is usually not publicly shared. This report is aimed [...]