All Posts Tagged With: "ETFs"

8 Inverse ETFs to Profit from Economic Meltdown

The news is saturated with Hank Paulson’s $700 bailout plan. This is diverting attention away from the increasingly bleak outlook for the wider economy.

Rick Pendergraft says no bailout can immediately solve the problems in the housing market. And all indicators suggest these will run well into 2009 at least.

Rick says your portfolio should be all about playing safe for now. He recommends eight inverse ETF plays to hedge against this downside risk.

Select SPDRs Are a Great Way to Track Specific Sectors

Wayne Burritt says exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offer a great way to invest in a particular sector of the economy. They trade like stocks, reflect actual sentiment towards a sector and can be subjected to rigorous technical analysis to aid decision making. Standard & Poor’s Select SPDRs, which track specific sector indexes, are a great place to start…

4 Ways To Recession Proof Your Portfolio

Wall Street is on its knees, and the taxpayer is on the hook for well over a trillion dollars to prop up the financial system.

Meanwhile, the wider US economy is sliding into a recession.

William Patalon III says there are four solid ways to protect your portfolio from these forces: 1) Buy dividend-paying stocks; 2) Buy gold; 3) Buy companies focused on overseas market; and 4) Don’t panic…

Tap Into Double-Digit Dividends with ETFs

Nathan Slaughter, the chief investment strategist for The Street Authority, says putting your money only in individual stocks sets you up for “repeated sucker punches.”

This sucker-punch effect is even stronger as US stocks whipsaw mercilessly because of continued concerns over the housing and credit crises.

Diversifying into the 150 available exchange-traded funds - ETFs - paying double-digit yields can change that.

Why Invest in ETFs?

Are ETFs a lazy man’s investment?

Not so, says Dan Denning in The Daily Recknoning Australia. Although investing in ETFs often means ‘passively’ tracking an index rather then picking a good stock, ETFs carry a number of distinct advantages.

Dan says they are an example of a new product offering from Wall Street that is actually aligned with your interests. They give you more tools to easily trade and own different currencies, markets and asset classes - without excessive management fees…

And Then There’s This…Monday, July 7th, 2008

Thursday was the day that the ECB raised their interest rates…and the US jobs report came out. Considering the nature of the news, one would have expected the US$ and US equity markets to fall…and gold and silver to rise. It was not to be.

How 50 Gave You a ‘5 in 5′

Investing in stock markets in a growing economy like India will generally give you better long term returns than investing in bank accounts. The logic is that, when an economy is growing, it means that the various businesses that make up the entire economy are - in total - growing.

Here’s Where to Find the World’s Most Interesting ETF

Last month, I stood inside a shovel the size of a two-car garage.

King Corn Retakes the Throne

Corn is in trouble because of the wet spring that has drenched the Midwest. Yesterday, the USDA said in a report that American corn output will be down significantly from last year’s estimate.

How to Turn Sovereign Wealth Into Personal Wealth

We all know the U.S. government is in debt up to its eyeballs. Moody’s is already threatening to downgrade the country’s debt rating due to unfunded liabilities for Medicare and Social Security.

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