Once again, I am flattering an entry with a picture taking here in Switzerland where I am currently entertaining courses at HEC Lausance. As you can see, it is a beautiful place and also, as it were, very interesting with respect to tail fume patterns from the enormous amount of airplanes moving back and forth over le Lac Léman (middle of Europe remember!). Posting is slim I know, but so unfortunately is time; I can assure that it is not out of lack of enthusiasm to write and opinion on current events.

Moving on to the topic du jour it is interesting to observe wow fast things sometimes change. We need not go back more than 5-6 months to observe how hawkish central banks across the economic edifice were busy scrambling to raise rates in order to quell inflationary pressures. Most notably, the

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A Selective Investment in Scandinavia As evidence of commercial interest in developing an ETF for the Nordic region, Global X Management has recently filed for such a product, based on the FTSE Nordic 30 Index. The Global X filing specifies that, "The underlying index tracks the performance of the 30 largest and most liquid companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. The Adviser uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective." In contrast, the ETFI Nordic Region PerformIdex is a semi-active ETF proposal with quarterly rebalancing among all companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland with market caps over $1 billion USD. Currently, 92 companies qualify for the index with only the top 40 rated stock ...

This post is a guest contribution by Niels Jensen*, chief executive partner of London-based Absolute Return Partners.

It is time to move on. Not that the crisis is over, by no stretch of the imagination. But it is not going to make one iota of difference if I join the blame game bandwagon. It is what it is. Allow me instead to focus my energy on what is likely to happen next. That is more productive and definitely more useful.

A can of worms We are dealing with a rather large can of worms. The lid is off and the worms are all over the place. Let’s focus on what these worms might be up to. For all the

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The recruitment industry is getting whacked right along with most other sectors right now. But Penny Sleuth's Tom Bulford sees strong potential for Hexagon Human Capital (LON:HHC). The company is well protected from the purge in the financial sector and has a solid cash flow. Tom says this is one to watch for the future...

Top 10 Rated Nordic Companies Nordic Region: Stats for All 116 & Top 40 Companies Nordic Region: Breakdown by Country As evidence of commercial interest in developing an ETF for the Nordic region, Global X Management has recently filed for such a product, based on the FTSE Nordic 30 Index. The Global X filing specifies that, "The underlying index tracks the performance of the 30 largest and most liquid companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. The Adviser uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective." In contrast, my NordiCaps Top 40 Rated ETF proposal is ...

Dutton Associates, one of the largest independent investment research firms in the United States, today announced it is reiterating its “Strong Speculative Buy” rating with a higher price target of $1.50 for Neoprobe Corp. (OTCBB: NEOP), a biomedical company forecast to generate profit in the second half of 2010 with earnings per share of 12 cents for the full year.

Driving the projection is the company’s commercialization of Lymphoseek, a proprietary radiopharmaceutical currently in development for the identification of sentinel lymph nodes during lymph node biopsies to stage various tumor types, including breast, melanoma, and head and neck carcinomas.

Moving forward with its research, the company has initiated patient recruiting for the first of two phase III clinical trials for Lymphoseek, and expects to commence the second phase III trial in the third quarter. According to the 15-page report by Dutton & Associates, the delay in this second phase III

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