ETF Analysis & Opinion

From a technical view, theiShares MSCI Peru ETF (ARCA:EPU) is close to the lower boundary of a large bearish channel and it is facing its lower Bollinger® band which should act as a support....

Good news from The Conference Board sent stocks climbing on Thursday, as the Leading Economic Index rose to 99.8. Investors enthusiastically sent stocks higher after The Conference Board’s...

Tech bellwether Oracle (ORCL) crushed investors’ hopes with lackluster third quarter fiscal 2014 results. After posting better-than-expected results for the second quarter, it failed to show...

The investing public tends to place a great deal of faith in the forecasts of economists. To be frank, I am not entirely sure why. An overwhelming majority missed the impact that well-documented...

The iShares Silver Trust is losing upward momentum as it is reversing down from its 50-week moving average. We prefer to take profit right now at last price ($20.05) on long position opened in...

From a technical view, the ETF is shaping a base around its 20-week moving average which is turning up. Regarding technical indicators, the weekly RSI has pushed above a key bearish trend line while...

From a technical view, the ETF is trading above a key support level set at $19.Regarding technical indicators, the daily RSI is supported by a rising trend line.On a relative basis against the...

After months of speculation, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group finally decided to go public on a U.S. exchange rather than in Hong Kong and plans to file an IPO next month. Alibaba is expected to...

How do stock market benchmarks pop 1% out of the blue? Check your Twitter news feed. Crimea voted to join Russia as everyone anticipated. Industrial production rose more than expected in...

Asia Confidential recently wrote a courageous and contrarian article to buy China, though with the usual caveats. They acknowledged the risks, but justified the "buy" recommendation on the basis of...

One segment of the stock landscape that has produced incredible gains for investors over the past year is undoubtedly the ‘green’, or clean energy, ETF market. Products in this corner of...

The S+P 500 is now 2.25% off it's all time highs as concerns over China growth, Russia, future monetary policy, among others, abound. Recent history has shown the S+P 500 put in a higher high on...

A downbeat preliminary reading on the March Consumer Sentiment Index kept the stock market in the red on Friday. Although nobody was surprised that the talks between John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov...

The markets have started to freak out over weak data out of China. Consider, for example, the decline in the HSBC China Manufacturing PMI:The price of copper and other cyclically sensitive industrial...