In this week’s issue of Investment Expert Insights, we interview Tom Lydon, editor of ETFtrends.com, president of Global Trends Investments and author of iMoney: Profitable ETF Strategies for Every Investor, a book that guides investors through the benefits of exchange traded funds and provides useful advice on how to incorporate them into their portfolios. 

After months of being dragged in the dirt, having sand kicked in its face and being slapped around by the global community like the proverbial red-headed step child, the once mighty U.S. dollar finally flexed its muscles during the first full trading week of August.

I've got crude oil on the brain. But I'm not alone. Basically every asset market in the world keeps looking over their shoulder to see what's going on with the price of "black gold." The most powerful economy on the planet now shudders audibly when crude oil prices rally. You know things have gotten out of whack when the people who sell crude oil are trying to talk down prices!

Brazil is actually the fifth largest country in the world by population and is by far the largest Portuguese-speaking nation on the globe (sorry, Portugal).

When Jim Oberweis launched a fund to take advantage of China’s rapidly growing economy, he chose a road less traveled by purchasing shares of small companies positioned to profit from the country’s exploding middle class and its appetite for goods and services.