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Most sector ETFs have hit new year-to-date highs. Some sector investments like SPDR Select Sector Health Care (XLV) are not only blazing a trail in 2014, they’re crushing all-time records....

Russia’s “beef” with Ukraine is leading to a variety of near-term repercussions. The turmoil is producing interest in traditional safer-haven assets like the Japanese yen, U.S....

Jobless claims have been rising. Earnings growth has been decelerating. Revenue growth has been stalling. And mortgage applications dipped to the lowest level in two decades. Is it possible that...

Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc, (GILD), Netflix Inc, (NFLX) and Tesla Motors Inc, (TSLA) have rocketed to record peaks. The S&P 500 is on track for its best monthly performance since...

On Monday, 2/24, most market commentary centered on U.S. benchmarks rocketing to record highs. Writers have been missing the bigger story. Eurozone consumer prices fell in January at their fastest...

Does anyone really think that the monstrous erosion in homebuilder sentiment and the disappearance of mortgage applications are due to the nasty weather? Perhaps one can attribute the sad state of...

The case against investing in China ETFs goes a little something like this: The world’s second largest economy grew at its slowest level in 14 years, +7.7%. Local government debt has surged 67%...

The S&P 500 and the Dow may be toiling to reclaim the glory of all-time record peaks. On the other hand, nearly 200 ETFs have already recovered 52-week highs, terminating the notion of a lengthy...

Glum economic data derailed U.S. stocks in January. A mammoth “miss” for manufacturing activity, an unsettling decline in mortgage applications as well as an appalling...

Last summer, I began accumulating shares of iShares MSCI United Kingdom (EWU). My primary reasons included: (1) an attractive valuation for the developed-market asset, (2) the resilience of the...

Investors can borrow a currency with low interest rates or zero interest rates and buy risk assets (e.g., stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, etc.) in a currency with a higher interest rate. For...

CNBC commentators and Bloomberg analysts have spent the last few months explaining how the Federal Reserve’s measured withdrawal (a.k.a. “tapering”) from electronic dollar creation...

If you followed my contrarian investing lead several weeks ago, then you’ve already made a number of profitable shifts to take advantage of falling bond yields. (See Against the Herd: Lower...

Investors who allocated a portion of their capital abroad have been experiencing a whole lot of performance envy lately. For instance, those who concentrated their dollars in the S&P 500 last year...

The Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program (a.k.a. “quantitative easing”) assuaged the fears of most stock market participants last year. From the fiscal cliff to the sequester...

If anyone would have told me in 2011 that the “China neighbor” theme would struggle for as long as it has, I would have dismissed the argument outright. I had lived in places like Taiwan,...