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Protecting ETF Portfolios from the Currency Wars
On Wednesday, 5/8/2013, U.S. stocks recorded gains for a 5th consecutive session. In fact, the S&P 500 logged its 12th gain in 14 trading days, rising 6% since a mid-April hiccup ...
What Has Followed Large Unfilled Employment Day Gaps Down
Employment Days will often occur in conjunction with a strong price move because the employment report is frequently viewed as an important piece of economic data. Still, it has been ...
Diminishing “Wealth Effect” Requires ETF Portfolio Changes
In previous years, consumers spent more money when the value of their 401ks and the value of their homes were rising. That goes a long way toward explaining the performance of the third ...
A Failure of Bulls Followed by a Failure of Bears
On Monday the bulls tried to make a move higher and failed, making for a higher high and a lower close. On Tuesday the opposite happened with a lower low and a higher close signifying ...
The Return of the “Yen Carry Trade” Benefits The Currency Harvest ETF
Japanese stocks have been perennial underachievers. So when I suggested on December 20 that investors might benefit from WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity (DXJ), I was asking certain readers ...
Are Stocks Getting Ready To Correct?
Odds Favor Pullback vs. Ongoing Vertical Ascent
A common sense tenet of investing is assessing possible risk relative to the possible reward. As we have noted since January 24, the ...
MLK Week Historical Returns
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was Monday. The NYSE has only observed MLK Day as a holiday since 1998. But over that 15 year period the market has not done well during MLK week. I discussed ...
