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After seemingly losing interest in 2010, investors have resumed pouring money into commodity ETFs in 2011; both broad-based basket funds and resource specific products have grown as these products

As the ETF industry has expanded in recent years ongoing innovation has given investors more precise tools for accessing various corners of the stock and bond markets, as well as securities that de

The S&P 500 Index is perhaps the world’s best known benchmark. First published in 1957, the cap-weighted index consists of 500 large cap U.S.

The meteoric rise of the ETF industry–and to a smaller extent the introduction of index mutual funds some 20 years earlier–has had the effect of transforming indexes from hypothetical m

David Rosenberg, chief economist at Toronto's Gluskin Sheff, is continually publishing interesting graphs.  Below one from  Tags:

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The WEF (World Economic Forum) ranks the competitiveness of world economies every year.  Two years ago the U.S. was ranked first.  Last year Switzerland moved ahead, dropping the U.S.

I reported earlier on a post by the 5-Min Forecast that discussed the possibility that stocks are undervalued based on the relationship between the 10-year Treasury bond yield, which has been

In the investment world it’s almost a religion to show charts of 1-3-5-10 and 20 year total returns as evidence of how you should be investing for the future.

Three graphs today at the 5-Min. Forecast go a long way toward telling the story of where we are in this economic recovery.

Something has got to give according to reader Albertarocks.  He is the prime contributor to a series of Seeking Alpha Instablogs devoted to following the Hindenberg Omen.  See  Tags:

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