Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have changed the face of investing.#-ad_banner-# First launched in... Read More
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have changed the face of investing.#-ad_banner-# First launched in 1993, the ETF industry has surged to more than $1.5 trillion in assets spread across more than 3,100... Read More
Twenty years ago, who’d have thought America would ever be anywhere near achieving energy... Read More
Twenty years ago, who’d have thought America would ever be anywhere near achieving energy independence? Back then, the majority of our fuel was imported, and the prevailing concern was the U.S.... Read More
The stock market rarely gives you a chance to prove your investment thesis in real-time.... Read More
The stock market rarely gives you a chance to prove your investment thesis in real-time. Expectations for share price moves usually take many quarters to play out, if not longer. Yet a recent set of... Read More
ETFs are designed to decrease risks by offering investors access to a group of stocks. However, the... Read More
ETFs are designed to decrease risks by offering investors access to a group of stocks. However, the use of highly specialized indexes by ETFs can increase exposure to the riskiest sectors and lead to... Read More
Wall Street is famous for creating new products. Sometimes, these products prove to be disastrous,... Read More
Wall Street is famous for creating new products. Sometimes, these products prove to be disastrous, like derivatives on subprime mortgages were in 2008.#-ad_banner-# At other times, new products... Read More
I am convinced that 2014 will go down in history as the year the European economy rose from the... Read More
I am convinced that 2014 will go down in history as the year the European economy rose from the ashes. #-ad_banner-# Many nations in the European Union are showing signs of recovery after a... Read More
Gold is getting hammered, and the pain in the sector is putting gold bulls in a panic. The yellow... Read More
Gold is getting hammered, and the pain in the sector is putting gold bulls in a panic. The yellow metal is down more than 27% year to date, and in just the past month, gold prices have tumbled more... Read More
Selling puts in your investment account can be a tremendous strategy for generating reliable... Read More
Selling puts in your investment account can be a tremendous strategy for generating reliable income while taking on less risk than more traditional income strategies like buying and holding... Read More