Stocks don’t like Mondays. This is the third Monday in a row that’s started with a gap down open. And volume has been on the light side each of these Mondays. What does it mean?
Low volume is usually interpreted to mean that there’s little conviction behind a move. That doesn’t mean the move itself can’t be large, just that it likely won’t follow through and may even reverse. Still, I can’t say I’d run out to buy stocks in anticipation of a rebound after yesterday’s drop.
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The first signs of the news cycle shifting to a bearish tone are evident this morning. Should we call them bearish "green shoots?" Or "brown shoots?"
Retail sales came in worse than expected this morning. And we’re seeing the market react badly to bad news. That’s as opposed to reacting positively, or putting a positive spin, on bad news like we’ve seen repeatedly over the past two months.
Bloomberg reports that "Fewer jobs, falling home values and the biggest loss of household wealth on record may limit consumers’ ability to spend for years…"
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Somebody’s lying. Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis is on the verge of getting sacked because he failed to tell BAC shareholders that he was buying Merrill Lynch for $29 billion while it was losing $15 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008. The revelation that Merrill paid out $3.6 billion in bonuses during that miserable quarter really got shareholders upset.
Once again, the buyers have stepped in at obvious support levels and sent stocks higher. We’ve identified support for the Dow Industrials at around 8,000. And while the index traded below 8,000 this week, the fact that buyers continue to step in remains one of the few positives for stock prices.
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It’s been too long since I printed your comments and answered your questions in Daily Profit. After I finished cutting and pasting the most relevant, I came out with 5 pages of reader mail.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency and major U.S. banks are stepping up efforts to modify mortgage loans to keep homeowners in their homes and paying their bills.
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John Nyaradi is publisher of Wall Street Sector Selector, an online financial newsletter specializing in sector rotation using exchange traded funds (ETFs). His articles have been widely published online in "The Guru’s Corner" on MarketWatch.com, Kiplinger’s, ETF Trends, CNBC Online, The San Francisco Chronicle, TradingMarkets.com, Seeking Alpha and many others. In this interview, I discuss with him the strategies investors should use to weather the financial crisis.
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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.
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The U.S. now comprises just one-third of the world's market capitalization. And in the past few years, global returns handily outpaced those of U.S. issues. But recently -- in spite of all the talk of decoupling -- international markets have suffered right along with our domestic exchanges.
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Today, there are more than 700 ETFs, scattered among just about any investment category you can imagine.
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You would have had to be living under a rock for the last couple of years to be unaware of the phenomenal rise of gold. Now, many investors are questioning ' is it too late to get in on this rally?
At the financial conferences that I have attended in the past few months, recession has been the primary topic.
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For the past couple of weeks, we have been talking about exchange-traded funds (ETFs), first, discussing several large ETF fund families, and then focusing on gold ETFs. This week, I want to more-narrowly focus our discussion, delving further into different classes of ETFs...
At the beginning of 2007, Financially Fit brought you a series of articles on small-cap investing. We covered the advantages (on Jan. 16, 2007), the analysis (Jan. 23, 2007) and how to choose the best small-cap funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (Jan. 30, 2007)
Rarely has the stock market encountered a phenomenon like exchange traded funds (ETFs).
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The cheapskate mutual fund investor looks carefully at fees to make sure they match the value received. Some investors, in search of the best possible bargain, look to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) because they have a reputation for being so cheap.
ETFs hold tremendous advantages over the average mutual fund.
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Commodities continue to reach record highs. In this issue we take a look at some commodity related ETFs and in our "Ask the Editor" feature we field a reader question about commodities. Also, Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) is applying their success in selling CDs to movie promotion. And, McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) will complete their spin-off of Chipotle (NYSE: CMG) sooner than expected.
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