Great Stocks To Buy 2012
Personal Finance Tools – Happy Graduation! Now What Do You Do About Your Finances?
It’s finally over. All those late night of hard work, sweating away — pummeling your controller in marathon Smash Brother tournaments with your room mates. Ah, good times. You’re all done with college, you picked up your B.S. or B.A., and now you’re ready to actually do something with that piece of paper. Presenting it [...]
First Trust Launches Smart Phone ETF
A new ETF began trading on NASDAQ on Friday based on an index that tracks smart phone companies. The First Trust NASDAQ CEA Smartphone Index Fund trades under the ticker FONE. "The smart phone industry has enormous growth and has the potential to grow for years and years to come," Ryan Issakainen, an ETF strategist [...]
Egypt Protest Spreads to Banks, State Offices
Hosni Mubarak may be gone from Cairo, but demonstrators aren’t finished yet. Protests haven’t stopped, instead changing their focus on Sunday to state-run offices. Demonstrators have now turned their attention to Egypt’s public institutions, including its banks, stock market, insurance companies, and other functions. A bank holiday was declared on Monday, after the Egyptian pound [...]
ETFs Move Out on the Yield Curve
BlackRock’s iShares has launched two new fixed-income ETFs that will provide a way to allocate portfolio assets to a broad index of longer corporate, U.S. and international bonds. The iShares 10+ Year Credit Bond Fund (CLY), tracks the BofA Merrill Lynch 10+ Year US Corporate & Yankees Index, intended to mimic “long-term, investment-grade U.S. corporate [...]
Supposed market metronome might just be a myth
With the end of the year approaching, traders already are planning how to start the new year on the right foot by playing the so-called “January Effect.” Great — but what is it, and how can investors tap into it? And more than that, is there any merit to the idea? Glad you asked. The [...]
