Doug Fabian
Making Money Alert: Will the April Showers Keep Falling?
[youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/LGZIBfg_ry8″] The equity markets are down so far in April. Yes, you read that right; stocks have finally shown that they do, in fact, sell off from time to time. Although stocks were up early in today’s session, the major indices have suffered their first five-day losing streak in what seems like forever. The […]
ETF Talk: Small Caps Ride High
Small-cap exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been on a decided uptrend so far in 2012. Despite the market’s pullback today, ProShares Ultra SmallCap600 ETF (SAA) is up 20.2% so far this year through the close of trading yesterday. The following chart shows the fund’s recovery from the plunge it took in the second half of 2011. […]
Making Money Alert: Testing the Bull’s Resolve
[youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/KWLXqSJ6xDE”] There’s no denying the tremendous performance of domestic equities in the first quarter of 2012. The Dow surged some 8% during Q1, but that jump was small potatoes when compared to the 12% gain in the S&P 500 and the whopping 19% spike in the NASDAQ Composite. These gains are impressive even during […]
ETF Talk: Small-Cap Shows Surprising Strength
When markets turn upward as they have lately, small-cap stocks typically can be counted on to produce bigger gains than their large-cap counterparts. The trend is reflected once again during the past few months as iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index ETF (IJR) has climbed above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages. The iShares S&P SmallCap […]
Making Money Alert: Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on New High’s Door
[youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/mBZub2OO7Ow”] On Monday morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke surprised traders with some rather bearish comments on the health of theU.S.economy, and particularly the state of the nation’s employment. Here’s the money quote from Bernanke’s comments at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Conference: “Further significant improvements in the unemployment rate will likely […]
ETF Talk: CUT is Slicing Through the Competition
It’s March Madness time, and for many of us, it’s the season to watch the best college basketball players in the country run up and down the hardwood. But when it comes to investing, I’ve been observing a big rebound taking place off hardwood of a different sort. During the last three months, one exchange-traded […]