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Retail, Oil ETFs Suffering with Their Sectors

The article states, "Oil prices [...] have been on an uptrend over the last few days."

Tom, perhaps you should actually LOOK at the prices of a market before commenting on them. Here are the session closing prices for January crude (WTI on NYMEX) over the past 4 days:

Fri: $47.96
Sun: $46.28
Mon: $44.51
Tue: $43.60

How do falling prices over the past three days constitute an "uptrend over the last few days"?

5 Things You May Not Know About ETFs - But Should

Guys, not everyone who reads this site is already an "expert". Some of us are fairly new to investing and ETFs. Please forgive us.

Anyway ... There is some interesting information in this article. For instance, given all the hype and press that ETFs have received in the last few years, I had no idea that mutual fund assets ($12 trillion) still dwarfed ETF assets ($.6 trillion).

And I appreciated the size of the post. A lot of the contributors go on and on and don't say much--or worse, their content is just a big advertisement for their products or services. It's nice to see useful, "nuggetized" information without having to wade through a bunch of self-promotional dreck.

Shorting ETFs - Goodbye To The Old Risks

The uptick rule was eliminated for *all* US securities in July of last year.

Warren Buffett on Diversification

Interesting article. It agrees with the following Buffet quote:

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
-- Warren Buffet

Lehman Foreign Fixed Income ETF: Diversification and Double Digit Annual Gains

Check SSgA's site. Japanese bonds account for over 90% of this fund! That hardly seems "international".

Lehman Foreign Fixed Income ETF: Diversification and Double Digit Annual Gains

Check SSgA's site. Japanese bonds account for over 90% of this fund! That hardly seems "international".

State Street Launches First International Treasury Bond ETF

Just checked SSgA's site. Japanese bonds account for over 90% of this fund! What's up with that? Perhaps this isn't the broad-based international bond fund that many of us have been waiting for.