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  • Five Worst Performing Country ETFs: A Golden Investment Opportunity? by Jacob Wolinsky
      Sometimes the best places to invest are in the scariest assets that have experienced the largest declines. Historically bear market declines are followed by bull markets. The greater the market crash, the greater the market recovery that follows it usually is. This is what David Dreman... More »
    November 29, 2009 • RSX, GUR, INP
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/23/2009 Top News and Investment Ideas by ETFdesk.com
      Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.com Today's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more... "Black Friday" deals may not signal retail comeback Banks' Capital Adequacy Ratios Still Need Improvement - S&P Bets rise on rich country bond defaults... More »
    November 23, 2009 • RTL, RTH, XRT
  • Old Normal Allocation Becomes New Normal? by Richard Shaw
    The old normal allocation between the three most basic classes (Cash, Bonds and Stocks) is currently the new normal. While the old normal return expectations for U.S. securities, and the allocation between U.S. securities and global securities (particularly emerging market securities) is not... More »
    November 17, 2009 • SPY, MDY, EWU
  • Less Than Good News from Germany by Richard Shaw
    The elections are over in Germany and the new finance minister is making sobering statements about recovery. Germany is a major part of the European economy. With Italy limping and Spain bleeding, Germany’s statement is hardly welcome. New Your Times (October 25, 2009)... More »
    October 25, 2009 • EWG, EWI, EWP
  • The Top 20 High-Yield ETFs by Scott's Investments
     Below is a list of the 20 best performing "high yield" ETFs over the past 6 months. ETFs were ranked by 6 month performance and were required to have a 3% minimum dividend yield.The list for the middle of October has a strong global theme -nearly all of the ETFs on the list have... More »
    October 17, 2009 • FGD, DEW, DGS
  • Trend Condition of Country Funds by Richard Shaw
    There were some substantial price moves today for many country and region funds.  How do they look now relative to their 200-day simple moving averages? The chart below shows the ratio of the price to the 200-day average, and the 100-day average to the 200-day average, for 35 country and... More »
    August 17, 2009 • VT, EFA, VWO
  • Early Look: Green Bananas by Keith McCullough
    “Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. -Jack Kerouac It’s no secret – monkeys want bananas. Get one of those qualitative “channel checking” Wall Street “consultants” to test that primitive theory.... More »
    August 4, 2009 • UUP, DIA, XLY
  • Italian Demographics Horrible, but Shorting that Market Risky by Beacon Asset Managers
    We read with interest today's Research Edge Seeking Alpha article on "Ailing Italian Economy Ripe for Shorting." We agree with Research Edge's view that Italy will continue to lag or struggle into the current global economic recovery. Why? Demographically they are upstream without a... More »
    July 1, 2009 • EWI
  • Strong Returns Since November, March Lows–Can it Continue? by Beacon Asset Managers
    We present two tables showing performances of U.S. and International indices, and sectors, from the November 20th 2008 and March 9th 2009 low points. It should be of no surprise that in many cases the gains from these low points have in some cases exceeded 50 percent. The "Doomsters"... More »
    July 1, 2009 • EEM, EFA, IOO
  • The Wrong Headlines by Keith McCullough
    Research Edge Position: Short Italy via the iShares etf EWIThe media has had a field-day with the marital status and personal relations of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over the last months. Apt for inappropriate comments, Berlusconi has recently been quoted saying that "he never... More »
    June 26, 2009 • EWI

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