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Opportunity in the Brazilian Real and Chinese Renminbi

The ETFs use the same contracts. Also they have hardly any volume.

What Makes for a Good ETF

I don't see any evidence that CurrencyShares ETFs are using swaps.

I think that is only correct for some of the weird ones like Chinese Yuan ETFs.

Aleynikov's Code Dump Uncovered

I don't see anything proprietary in this code (or his Perl contributions that were posted earlier).

code.google.com/u/sale...

He hasn't made any updates since April 14th.

Real Estate, Retail ETFs Better Than You Think

I think it is due to the large dividend payouts from REITs. But who knows if those can continue??

Time To Sell Russian ETFs and Stocks

In addition, Russia has no subprime crisis and their economic future is uncorrelated to US consumer activity -- something that cannot be said for the other BRIC countries.

Time To Sell Russian ETFs and Stocks

I'm an American and I trust Putin more than Bush. The Bush family has certainly started more violent acts than Putin has.

Western media is extremely biased against Russia, but I think most of this is due to jealousy. Russia has a lot better human rights record than China, plus they have a plentiful natural resource supply and a rapidly expanding economy.

SIRI/XM Merger: A Waiting Game

This is ridiculous. Sat Radio should just merge and completely ignore the FCC, no matter what they say. What can the FCC do to prevent it? Shoot the satellites out of the sky?

Postage Increases Might Be the Least of eBay's Problems

I too would like to see EBay become a "utility" and start paying dividends (and sell the unrelated business Skype).