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A Warren Buffett ETF?
By Ron DeLeggeWe know that financial product developers have thought about introducing a Warren Buffett ETF, not because the investing public really needs it, but because theres no shortage of dubious ideas. Interestingly, though, financial marketers might not have to invent a Buffett ETF because one already exists.
December 19, 2011
Outlook 2012: Value Investing — A Glimmer in the GloomLike value investment gurus Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham, today's stock pickers believe that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
December 19, 2011
Vanguard Switches Benchmark, Drops Fee for World FundThe fund giant moves its Total World Stock Index Fund to the FTSE Global All Cap Index
December 19, 2011
Kim Jong Il’s Death Unnerves Asian MarketsAsian markets reacted to the death of Kim Jong Il of North Korea with trepidation on Monday, with both stocks and the South Korean won falling.
December 07, 2011
How Could J.P. Morgan Deliver Stocks and Bonds Cheaper Than Today’s Industry?While the Occupy Wall Street movement regards Wall Street greed as the reason for all the money sloshing around lower Manhattan, new academic research suggests that todays huge appetite for trading may explain the financial industrys large size.
December 07, 2011
Pearl Harbor Remembered: Market Reaction to That Infamous DayFor the 12 months prior to the attack, the average daily trading volume on the Dow Jones Industrial Average was about 560,000 shares.
December 05, 2011
S&P Launches Index with Middle East FocusS&P Indices announced on Monday that it has partnered with the Arab Federation of Exchanges to launch an index of 40 companies based in the Middle East.
December 01, 2011
Is a December Rally Likely?—Searching for Alpha for December 2011The central bank-inspired rally may very well continue up through the end of 2011.