News about <![CDATA[QQQ]]> News about en-us <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: TLT Tumbles On Fed Tapering Fears, XLB Slumps]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Business Development Companies: High yield, high risk]]> business-development-companies-bdcBy John Wasik (Reuters) – In a frantic search for yields, investors often turn toward relatively unknown products. Business Development Companies (BDCs) are one of latest vehicles to grab investor attention – and money. BDCs are companies that lend to young, thinly traded and often distressed companies that have credit ratings in the “junk” status. They are [...]]]> <![CDATA[Turnaround Tuesday lives up to its name as the Dow leads the Market higher]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: Healthcare Shares Boost IHI And XLV]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Four ways to avoid bad decisions during a bull run]]> Bull and bear statues are pictured outside Frankfurt's stock exchangeBy John Wasik (Reuters) – Is the Dow’s movement above 15,000 or the record close of the S&P 500 Index last week a buy signal? They may not mean anything, but most market watchers believe the rise is talismanic. Despite the lure of recent market gains, there’s often no pattern to investment results. To avoid [...]]]> <![CDATA[May 20, 2013: New Features: FolioInvesting One-Click, Portfolio Dividend & Static Portfolio Change]]> historical-yield-052013

We introduce several new features including email attachment for FolioInvesting portfolio allocations, portfolio dividend data and dynamically changing a static portfolio while maintaining historical performance data. 

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<![CDATA[In a rare move Stocks end lower; Gold and Silver find their Footing]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: DBP Pops On Fed Speculations, XLE Rallies]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Social Security Earnings Penalty?]]> BY MATTHEW ILLIAN A good deal of misinformation is published about a so-called Social Security earnings penalty. Many are led to believe that if they earn money while collecting Social Security, they’ll lose some of this benefit forever. Retirees should ignore all talk about a “penalty,” which only discourages prudent cost-benefit analysis. The Social Security retirement [...]]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: YCS Pops On Strong Dollar, XLE Rallies]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[The Meaning of the New Highs in the S&P500]]> Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange following its reopeningby Geoff Considine The S&P500 has recently been hitting new all-time highs, which would seem to suggest that the economy is recovering and that the U.S. economy is back on track.  The story does not look quite so rosy when you account for inflation, as Mark Hulbert has recently noted.  The current level of the S&P500 is, in [...]]]> <![CDATA[The Market hits the breaks Ends Lower]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: IGN Pops After Cisco Earnings, XLV Slumps]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Amazon Sales Tax Collection: Coming To Your State Soon!]]> BY DAVID JOHN MAROTTA In “Marketplace Fairness Act Adds Automation to Tax Confusion” I wrote: Amazon is currently collecting sales tax for purchases shipped to nine states. It will begin collecting sales tax on purchases for Virginia in September 2013. The nine states Amazon is currently collecting sales tax are Arizona, California, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North [...]]]> <![CDATA[From the Archives: Life Expectancy at Retirement]]>

Source: The Economist, via Greg Mankiw. Americans, as well as citizens of many other advanced nations, now spend about twice as many years in retirement as they did a generation or two ago.  

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<![CDATA[Summary of 13F from Tepper's Appaloosa]]> Tepper's Appaloosa Management releases 13F:

David Tepper's Appaloosa Management released its 13F earlier and saw a slight increase in its value from $4.61billion to $4.71 billion.

(All units are in millions of shares)

Raised:

• Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) from 3.42 to 3.62 • Celanese (NYSE: CE) from 0.65 to 1.05 • Ford

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<![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: XLP Rallies Alongside Consumer Staples, INDY Pops]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Chinese ETF Investors Can Now Access Nasdaq-100]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Investment Risk Re-imagined]]> risk

Risk is fundamental to investing, but no one can agree what it is.  Modern Portfolio Theory defines it as standard deviation.  Tom Howard of AthenaInvest thinks investment risk is something completely different.  

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<![CDATA[Going to alternatives for yield]]> dividend-coinsBy John Wasik May 10 (Reuters) – If you’re willing to take on more risk, it’s a good time to move beyond corporate and government bonds in the incredibly challenging search for yield. While attention has been on the record-setting stock market – the DowJones Industrial Average closed above the symbolic 15,000 on Tuesday and kept climbing – [...]]]> <![CDATA[PIMCO’s Big Picture: Dialing Down Risk]]> pimco-el-erianPIMCO’s CEO Mohamed A. El-Erian published an article on Barrons.com that discussed the PIMCO’s global investing outlook. To summarize:  Views for the next three-to-five years:  • In Europe, with the lack of a comprehensive resolution, the collapse of the single currency will remain conceivable though not a dominant probability. The more immediate threat is a [...]]]> <![CDATA[Turnaround Tuesday Sends Stocks Higher as Trading Volume Jumps]]> <![CDATA[Market Pundits Debate the end of QE while Stocks Close Mixed]]> <![CDATA[Market Pundits Debate the end of QE while Stocks Close Mixed]]> <![CDATA[Market Pundits Debate the end of QE while Stocks Close Mixed]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: S&P Posts Record High, XLF And XLE Rally]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Thinking of Life Without QE – Ahead of Wall Street]]> <![CDATA[May 13, 2013: Preparing To Take A Loss]]> SPY_Bollinger_Band_50_2.5_05132013

Preparing for a loss in the coming correction: we would rather do it proactively and getting psychologically prepared before it happens.

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<![CDATA[Bucket List: A Bucket for the Unknown]]> BY AUSTIN FEY  Not long ago, I splurged and bought my favorite ice cream as a treat after a long week. It sat in my freezer for the right moment to enjoy its sugary goodness. Finally I opened my freezer and found, to my horror, my treat had turned to mush. Why? My refrigerator and freezer [...]]]> <![CDATA[Tread Carefully With ETFs With Hard Disk Drive Exposure]]> It is tough to malign hard disk drive makers such as Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) and Western Digital (NYSE: WDC).

Year-to-date, Seagate is up 26 percent while Western Digital has surged over 33 percent. By comparison, the PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ: QQQ) is up "just" 8.8

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<![CDATA[Market Pundits Debate the end of QE while Stocks Close Mixed]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: Stocks Finish Flat, IBB And DXJ Pop]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Five Red Flags You Picked The Wrong Financial Advisor]]> BY DAVID JOHN MAROTTA  Libby Kane has an interesting article entitled “Five Signs You Picked The Wrong Financial Advisor” which fits well with our “Ten Questions to Ask a Financial Advisor.” Here are her five warning signs: 1. She Isn’t Certified. In other words, you should value comprehensive wealth management. 2. He Offers to Manage Your Money for [...]]]> <![CDATA[AWS 5/13: Markets Should Stay on Course – Ahead of Wall Street]]> <![CDATA[From the Archives: Forecasting, Schmorecasting]]> weather-forecast

We’ve written about the uselessness of forecasting in the past and even cited James Montier’s wonderful piece, The Seven Sins of Fund Management.  This citation comes from Mebane Faber’s World Beta blog.  Montier writes: The two most common biases are over-optimism and overconfidence. Overconfidence refers to a situation whereby people are su...

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<![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: Stocks Post Third Week Of Gains, XRT Jumps Alongside Consumer Shares]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Dare to Prick The Bond Bubble? Rates Will Stay Low]]> zerohedge reported the CNBC’s interview with DoubleLine’s Jeff Gundlach. It summarized very well why bonds are not at the peak of their bubbles:  Adding to Gundlach’s view, we see four potential reasons that investors should not be ‘hoping’ for a bond selloff… 1) rates are low, and will stay low since The Feed needs to hold [...]]]> <![CDATA[Preparing to Retire – Wealth Management Carnival #12]]> BY AUSTIN FEY  Today’s carnival is all about retirement: saving for it, where to open accounts, how much to withdraw once you do retire, and more. Read on for more details! A Fresh Perspective on Employer Retirement MatchesEmily presents Should You Count Your Employer’s Contribution into Your Retirement Savings Percentage? posted atEvolving Personal Finance.“If you get an employer [...]]]> <![CDATA[A Last Minute Kick Save lifts the Markets off their Lows as USDJPY Pushes above 100]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: YCS Pops On Weaker Yen, XLU Slides Alongside Utilities]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[What Happens in A Nation of Renters?]]> New housing construction is seen in Darnestown Marylandby Geoff Considine Time magazine has a new article on changes in the home ownership in America.  The article, titled A Nation of Renters: Should We Be Worried That Fewer Americans Own Homes?, explores the substantial decline in the fraction of Americans who own their own homes.  I have followed this issue for quite some time and the [...]]]> <![CDATA[Clueless: The Stock Market is not the Economy]]> gdp-economy

Morgan Housel has a fun article at Motley Fool with a possible explanation for why investors are so clueless.  His argument, essentially, is that investors confuse the stock market with the economy.  If the economy is bad, they assume the stock market must be bad too.  Although it’s certainly true that many investors are confused [...]

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<![CDATA[Stocks Advance as Volume Swells]]> <![CDATA[Essential Financial Advice for College Graduates]]> BY MEGAN RUSSELL  My husband began his last undergraduate exams ever today. He graduates from the University of Virginia in a little over two weeks. As I approach this time with him from the other side of the ceremony, I find myself reflecting about how college graduates face a particular set of financial and life planning [...]]]> <![CDATA[Where Are the Dow 15K Hats? – Ahead of Wall Street]]> <![CDATA[Two ways to play the retail rebound]]> retail-storesBy John Wasik (Reuters) – With consumer stocks blazing this year, it makes sense for investors to focus on retailers as the U.S. economy continues an inchworm-like recovery. But retail is a fickle business. And trying to guess which companies will survive over the long-term is a dangerous game. Instead of buying individual stocks, you’d be better off owning an [...]]]> <![CDATA[Issuer Spotlight: Invesco PowerShares]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[Stocks Advance Again Volume Jumps]]> <![CDATA[Daily ETF Roundup: Dow Closes Above 15,000, VOX Rallies Alongside Telecom Stocks]]> Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.

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<![CDATA[How to Find a Financial Advisor, Step by Step (PBS Newshour)]]> BY DAVID JOHN MAROTTA  There’s a great article by Paul Solman of the PBS Newshour entitled, “How to Find a Financial Advisor, Step by Step” which reads in part: Zvi suggested contacting the NAPFA, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, for someone in your area. He also recommended his own online library of resources for getting started with [...]]]>