ETF Analysis & Opinion

Storm clouds gather over Europe as Spanish bond yields spike, the euro drops and 18 Spanish banks get downgraded. It was a bad morning in Europe yesterday as Spanish bond yields soared to euro...

The writing has been on the wall for coal equities and the relevant ETFs for a while now. Really, it has been a matter of "pick your poison" for downtrodden coal stocks. Risk-on being turned off,...

As traders and investors so often do, they're wondering what the next European shoe-to-drop will be and we're not talking Christian Louboutin or Prada. We're talking euro-zone members and all eyes...

It goes without saying that debt troubles in the eurozone have caused sharp declines and high volatility in equities from the region. The problems here may take a long time to resolve and may remain a...

Monday morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-M2) traded higher by 6.50 points to 1335.25 per contract. The modest move higher in the futures came as the Spanish banks are receiving a $125...

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) kicks off another eagerly anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference today at the Moscone conference center in San Francisco. It will be a bittersweet occasion for the tech...

June, 2012, marks another epic battle for the future of Europe.Last week the world remembered the Allied invasion known as D-Day that began at 0630 on June 6, 1944, when the largest amphibious...

Equities put in a strong bounce back rally that left the S&P 500 (SPY) higher by +3.9% on the week, even though it remains down -2.1% over a four week period.   For the week ahead, many...

I might as well admit this up front: weekly options are one of my favorite innovations in many years and VXX weeklys have become one of my preferred trades during the past few months.   Why?...

“It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or...

US Markets finished positive Friday to end the best week of 2012 US markets and ETFs finished positively Friday to end the best week of 2012. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) closed .80%...

The market, today, displayed its bi-polar nature ending the day with something like a bearish reversal candle. And that's why I say that if you are in investor and not a day trader, you are well...

It's no secret that May was a rough month for many ETFs, nor is it a secret that emerging-markets ETFs were on the receiving end of a lot of negative sentiment. ETF redemptions can start as a trickle,...