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With Lending Tight, It's Time to Buy the Lenders: Searching for Alpha, June 2010
By Ben WarwickLet's face it - borrowing money is tough. Small and medium size businesses are paying more interest, and face much stricter underwriting guidelines, than at any time in the last twenty years.
May 11, 2010
Fannie Mae Reports Steep Loss, Requests $8.4 Billion BailoutDeficit narrows in first quarter when compared with Q4 2009
May 09, 2010
The Market Swoon and Greek Contagion--One Advisor's ResponseAnytime the markets react as violently as they did last week my mind switches to high alert. I tune in to see what may be...
May 04, 2010
U.S. Stocks Fall More Than 2%; European Markets TumbleBy Christine Hauer (C) 2010 The New York Times The euro fell sharply on Tuesday and major indexes in Europe and the United States tumbled as the...
May 01, 2010
Does Revenue Weighting Work?After touching market lows on March 9th, 2009, major stock indexes were on an absolute tear until early May. And certain ETFs that weight...
May 01, 2010
Three Ways to Win with a Strong U.S. DollarHow can you take advantage of a strengthening U.S. dollar? The first way is to own dollar-denominated securities. The total U.S. stock market (VTI) which...
May 01, 2010
Aerospace & Defense: Clear Skies AheadHoward A. Rubel Jefferies & Company Inc. [email protected] 212-284-2126 We believe aerospace stocks are likely to benefit from the ongoing recovery in global traffic and yields. While the Obama...
April 29, 2010
IndexIQ Debuts South Korea ETFThe iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund (EWY), which aims to track 85 percent of the country's total market capitalization, gained 70.35 percent last year.