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The top ETF news, analyses and in-depth articles on stock, bond, commodity, sector and other ETFs.
New Leveraged ETFs for Natural Gas, Retail Investing
By Simon Maierhofer, Simon MaierhoferDirexion 2x and 3x ETFs are typically used by traders or investors to hedge positions in their current portfolios, while others use the funds to seek to take advantage of short-term trading opportunities.
July 26, 2010
Electronic Trading Group Buys Asset ManagerKnight Capital Group, Inc. is getting into the business.
July 26, 2010
Invesco PowerShares Sued by Sector SPDRs in Trademark DisputeThe Select Sector SPDR Trust on Monday, July 26, filed a lawsuit against Invesco PowerShares Capital Management and related entities for trademark infringement and misappropriation.
July 23, 2010
Scrutinizing Large-Cap Value Funds: Mutual Fund Focus, July 2010A core holding for many portfolios is the large-cap value fund, an investment style so ubiquitous that there are more than 400 of them available to U.S. investors alone.
July 20, 2010
DoubleLine DiversificationSearching for less correlation? New fund may help diversify portfolios across multiple asset classes.
July 19, 2010
Home Builders' Confidence Index Plummets to Lowest Point Since April 2009The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo housing market index showed builders' confidence in the single-family housing market dropped to its lowest point since April 2009, down two points to a reading of 14 in July.
July 19, 2010
Double-Dip Recession? Lord Abbett's Ezrati Offers 7 Reasons It Won't HappenMilton Ezrati, partner and senior economist and market strategist for Lord Abbett, argues that actual data on the economy fly in the face of such an outlook.
July 19, 2010
Sales alert: Don't close-- trial close!Weak salespeople close hard. Let me repeat: Weak salespeople close hard. Closing is a skill learned for salespeople to get the order.