ETF Analysis & Opinion

In less than two months a dizzying array of global central banks have lowered interest rates. The European Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Reserve Bank of India, the Bank of Israel,...

Not long after I penned The Options and Volatility ETPs Landscape, Credit Suisse (CS) added another buy-write / covered call ETP to the mix: the Credit Suisse Silver Shares Covered Call ETN (SLVO)....

Yesterday, we sold our swing trade in DB Gold Double Short (DZZ), a “short ETF” that inversely tracks the price of spot gold, for a solid gain of 9% over a two-week holding period. Since...

In 1986, I visited the Philippine Stock Exchange. There were few, if any, computers on the floor. Black markers registered trading activity on a giant whiteboard. And the feeling that I came away with...

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“I’ve never seen THIS in 34 years of investing,” quipped media personality Jim Cramer on Monday. What was Mr. Cramer referring to? For the most part, he expressed excitement over the...

India is the "I" in the ubiquitous BRIC acronym. It is Asia's third-largest economy behind China and Japan and the second-largest major emerging markets economy overall. The country is the world's...

From Brussels to Sydney to Hanoi, global central banks have been taking the ax to interest rates over the past several weeks. International central bankers can now welcome a new member to the...

This Great Graphic was in a report by Chris Flood of the Financial Times. It shows the increased use of ETFs by asset managers. Flood reports that ETFS are now used by 18% of US institutional fund...

Against the backdrop of some strong earnings reports, a spate of interest rate cuts and other cheery news from global central banks, U.S. stocks again soared last week. The S&P 500 added 1.2...

Technically SpeakingRSI: Having touched the upper band, it doesn't look like it's come to push through the 70 this time even though it is flirting with the upper Bollinger band. For this reason looks...

As this year’s impressive rally continues, U.S. stock indexes and ETFs are either on track for historic annual gains or are reaching bubble levels with the growing possibility of an approaching...