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  • ETF Ideas for the Upcoming Trading Week by Don Dion
     Three ETFs that should be considered this coming week are AMJ, EWL, and SLX. I have covered them in some detail in my blog to the left over…READ MORE To access my special Market Outlook for 2010 report, click here More »
    October 12, 2009 • EWL, AMJ, SLX
  • UBS & Credit Suisse: Capital Flight Fears Unfounded, For Now by Rakesh Saxena
    Between the billions of dollars lost in valuations and the thousands of investors who simply said goodbye to the markets since September last year, nobody is quite sure how much of estimated $7 trillion of privately-held “offshore” wealth still rests in Switzerland. But Swiss banking... More »
    October 6, 2009 • CS, EWL, UBS
  • Christmas Lights Are Up: Don’t Bother With Europe For Now by Rakesh Saxena
    Roberto Baggio (Seeking Alpha, September 24, 2009, Ten Reasons for an Imminent Stock Market Crash) wonders if someone has “waved a magic wand and fixed Europe’s problems overnight.” Well, in beautiful Riga, which lays claims to putting up the first evergreen Christmas tree in... More »
    October 4, 2009 • DAX, EWD, EWG
  • 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
  • Seeking safety and alpha at the same time by Gary Griswold
    High risk and high return are generally understood to go together, but are there exceptions?  Are there ways to find a higher return with a lower risk?  The strategy described here is to select countries based upon a positive current account as a percentage of the countries own... More »
    June 30, 2009 • EWS, EWM, EWT
  • Which Way’d They Go? by Richard Shaw
    Saying it’s better to buy when securities are going up than when they are going down is easy.  Actually determining what is up and what is down is not quite as easy. We have said and wish to reiterate that you should buy makes good sense to own for fundamental reasons when it is going... More »
    June 26, 2009 • BND, MUB, IEF
  • Early Look: Buck Is Barking by Keith McCullough
    "Here was neither peace, nor rest, nor a moment's safety. All was confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril.”-Jack London, The Call of the Wild One of America’s finest novelists, Jack London, wrote this book in 1903. The story is basically about a... More »
    May 19, 2009 • EWL, LQD, IFN
  • Research Edge Early Look: Terrifying by Keith McCullough
    “Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.”-Friedrich Nietzsche  Friday’s US market down day terrified me so much that I chased a CNBC fire engine all the way to the... More »
    May 18, 2009 • EWA, EWZ, XLE
  • Shadows of Prejudice by Keith McCullough
    “It's never too late to give up our prejudices.”-Henry David Thoreau Shorting pullbacks in a market that continues to make higher highs and higher lows is not a strategy that I subscribe to. Selling high and buying low, however, as revolutionary as that might sound,... More »
    May 13, 2009 • XLV, XLK, EWD
  • Research Edge's Early Look: Beta Shifting - Down by Keith McCullough
     “Chasing Performance is like driving while looking into a rear view mirror.”-Andrew Barber Over the past week, a number of our Research Edge Macro musings have suggested that the data points being released on housing and jobs is like looking into the rear view... More »
    May 7, 2009 • EWJ, EWW, DIA

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