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February marked another month of growth for the U.S. ETF industry, though the pace of inflows slowed a bit from recent months.

ETF Securities, the Europe-based ETF issuer responsible for a series of ultra-popular physically-backed precious metal ETFs, recently made an  Tags:

• Market Analysis
• backwardization
• commodities
• contango
• ETF's
• metals

It’s hard to argue that 2010 was the year of the commodity, as products ranging from gold to oil and everything in between saw their prices surge on the back of rising fears over inflation an

As most followers recognize, I break the commodity markets into seven sectors: financials which include the indices and debt markets, energies, currencies, livestock, metals, grains and finally the

Satch Chada is the Managing Director and Global Head of Investor Solutions for Jefferies Asset Management, LLC.

Ireland gets a bailout and at least part of it will be provided by money printing, aka quantitative easing (QE).  This bailout is not enough to solve the entire problem that Europe faces as a

Ireland gets a bailout and at least part of it will be provided by money printing, aka quantitative easing (QE).  This bailout is not enough to solve the entire problem that Europe faces as a

Initially, the response from the markets to Ben Bernanke and Company’s historic attempt to revitalize the markets with a second round of QE was rather muted; U.S.

The election went according to prediction; gridlock is the most likely outcome for the next two years.  President Obama is faced with a choice to either move more to the center on domestic iss

Agricultural prices are a leading indicator for food prices and the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Agriculture Price index has been surging in the pastfew months.