The Smart Trader's Guide to ETFs
Expense ratios matter, commissions don't.
Expense ratios matter, commissions don't.
The price of gold hit a new record high of $1,508.10 an ounce this morning. Gold has now doubled since December 2008. It is up 489% since bottoming at $255.95 on April 2, 2001, according to Yardeni Research. read »
T. Rowe Price's Dave Eiswert on outsourcing business to the Web, plus companies to watch in Asia.
Brazil's top two non-government owned banks, Itau-Unibanco (ITUB) and Bradesco (BBD), came out smelling like a rose in the 2008 US-led credit crisis. And now in Brazil, with an economy facing hot consumer demand and a government bent on keeping the lids on it, both banks are staging a comeback. Place your bets now before everyone else does? read »
My gold gurus weighed in this morning with the compelling notion that gold hit $1500 and silver $43 not only because the dollar is losing its grasp as the global reserve currency-- but because the budget battle may not end in radical austerity after all. read »
T. Rowe Price's David Eiswert on companies leading the next wave of growth in computing technology.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras and its multinational iron ore exporter Vale are two of Brazil's most actively traded stocks, but William Landers, the Senior Portfolio Manager of the $1 billion BlackRock Latin America fund (MDLTX) says he's not bullish on either of them. read »
The price of gold has surged recently, surpassing an important barrier of $1,500 per ounce. Gold has been up every year since 2001 and has increased roughly 25% in the previous year. read »
The technology sector has taken the lead on Wall Street today, as investors cheer a solid round of quarterly earnings reports from the likes of Intel Corp. (INTC), VMware Inc. (VMW), and Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO). What's more, crowd favorite Apple Inc. (AAPL) is slated to release its latest earnings figures after the close. Overall, the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ) exchange-traded fund (ETF) has gapped roughly 2% higher, outstripping the S&P 500 Index's (SPX) gain of about 1.5%. The ETF is now trading[...] read »