Shorting the yen and going long Japanese stocks have basically been no-brainer investments for the... Read More

Shorting the yen and going long Japanese stocks have basically been no-brainer investments for the past couple of years. That’s especially true when you consider there’s an... Read More

Investors are always looking for the newest strategies and tactics to extract profits from the... Read More

Investors are always looking for the newest strategies and tactics to extract profits from the financial markets. Newer and faster is often believed to be superior to the old, traditional ways of... Read More

The Lone Ranger was a big fan of silver.  He named his horse after the shiny metal and... Read More

The Lone Ranger was a big fan of silver.  He named his horse after the shiny metal and fashioned bullets out of it. If werewolves ever threatened Wild West homesteaders, I’m sure the... Read More

In the expanding universe of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), it’s sink or swim. #-ad_banner-# Any ETFs that fail to gain a big enough investor following eventually are shut down. It simply costs too much to operate fund that only has a few million dollars and trades only a few thousand shares… Read More

The stock market is on fire. It’s surging upward to challenge the record highs set at the start of August. It will not be surprising if these highs are taken out by the end of the year.#-ad_banner-# I bet by this point, many readers are thinking: “What, have you lost… Read More

Hedge funds, those once mysterious investment vehicles of the ultra wealthy, have recently been... Read More

Hedge funds, those once mysterious investment vehicles of the ultra wealthy, have recently been thrust into the public eye.  Outsize returns combined with media coverage of the wild and crazy... Read More

Over the past few years at StreetAuthority, we’ve been chronicling the remarkable pace of share buybacks. So many companies are buying back $500 million or even $1 billion in stock that this trend has become one of the most powerful themes of the… Read More

In a bear market, diversification reduces losses. In a bull market, diversification can reduce your... Read More

In a bear market, diversification reduces losses. In a bull market, diversification can reduce your gains. This is the trade-off all investors face. The price… Read More Read More

If you’ve been investing in countries such as South Africa and Brazil, the phrase “bear market” comes to mind. Their stock markets are off more than 20% this… Read More

In May, the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note rose from about 1.6% to more than 2.2%. As rates rise, bond prices fall, and an exchange-traded fund… Read More