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  • The Five S’s of a Strong Financial Foundation

    By Alnawaz Devani - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, FUSEX, DIA, VTI

    A reminder in case you missed the photos on Facebook (FB) and videos of countless commencement ceremonies on Youtube (GOOG): ‘tis the graduation season! Hoping to circumvent the slogans of “changing the world” and other such generic advice, this commentary seeks to present the five S’s of establishing a robust financial foundation for recent graduates:

    1. Save! Save! Save!

    • 2.7 percent. Yes, that number reflects the average savings more »

  • Effectively Incorporate ETFs Into Your Portfolio

    By Greg Williamson - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: EEM, DIA, SIJ

    Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are very popular investment opportunities that trade as stocks and hold a group of assets such as stocks, bonds, and commodities. ETFs are designed to track the performance of a particular index, sector, investment strategy, or global location, and are available in more styles and options than you can shake a stick at.

    ETFs are a very effective way to add diversity to a portfolio by more »

  • Goldman Sachs Generates Excitement As It Beats Earning Estimates

    By Alexander Cho - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: C, CME, FB, GS, TIP, JPM, KOL, NDAQ, NYX, SPY, DIA, GLD, USO, WFC

    Goldman Sachs has had another successful quarter as the company was able to grow both revenues and earnings at the same time. The company’s revenues have increased by 1% quarter-over-quarter, with revenues coming in at $10.09B. The company’s operating expense declined by 1% quarter-over-quarter. The company saw an improvement in net earnings of 7% quarter-over-quarter. The company’s results mirrored that of the other banks.

    Goldman Sachs more »

  • Are you a investor-investor or an investor-gambler?

    By Jared Kassan - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: QQQ, SPY, DIA

    This is for all you investor gamblers. The people who love to just trade. They don't care if the evidence says it is better to buy-and-hold. They like to trade, and like to trade often. Well here is a question for all of you. Have you guys heard of Section 1256 Contracts? No? Neither had I! 

    Here is a bit of preliminary information- We all know the tax rules more »

  • Jim Rogers is Wrong; This Rally Is for Real

    By Robert Baillieul - March 21, 2013 | Tickers: EFA, SPY, DIA, GLD

    Last week, CNN Money interviewed legendary investor Jim Rogers where he argued the recent run in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is misleading and a bad indicator of global economic health. But I was hard pressed to find any real facts to back up his claim. 

    Asset bubble

    "First of all it's [Dow Jones Industrial Average] going up so strongly first off because, look, if you give me a more »

  • Great News: The Selling is Over

    By Spencer Knight - November 21, 2012 | Tickers: BAC, F, GM, DIA

    After a bitter bout of selling for superficial reasons, we are expecting to see the market make a full recovery over the next three to four months.  From the early October 2012 high, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEMKT: DIA) slipped about 8.2%.  Many put the blame on the Presidential election for this slide, and many more predicted the market would completely and utterly collapse after a President Obama more »

  • Index Prices Can Give False Bull Signals

    By Chris Marasco - October 19, 2012 | Tickers: KRFT, QQQ, SPY, DIA, UNH

    I have been intrigued by the decision of the Averages Index Committee – the team that selects the component blue chips for the Dow Jones Industrial Average – to drop Kraft Foods (NASDAQ: KRFT) and replace it with UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). 

    Kraft’s market cap runs just under $70 billion, while UnitedHealth’s is $56.3 billion. The committee decided to cut Kraft because the latter is downsizing – the snacks giant more »

  • How to Profit from the Wide World of Indices

    By Soroush Pour - July 23, 2012 | Tickers: GCC, VXX, CRBQ, QQQ, DIA

    Think following the S&P 500, the NASDAQ, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a bit monotonous? Even if you’re not a hipster, we have some good news for you.  In the wide world of indices, there are more choices than even Chuck Norris could wrap his mind around (though here’s a few of the action hero’s favorite stock picks).  Back to the point, some indices more »

  • Nothing to See Here

    By Brad Hessel - July 16, 2012 | Tickers: SPY, DOG, SH, DIA | Editor's Choice

    Bouncing off the lowest quarterly reading in six years, volatility in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12) was up 115% quarter-over-quarter, but that only brought it to slightly-above-normal levels. For 2Q12, the average daily change in the value of the S&P 500 index was ±0.76%, compared with ±0.35% in 1Q11.

    We track market volatility because it is a reasonably reliable gauge of risk levels. 74% of the more »

  • Boeing: "No" to a Share Buyback and "Yes" to a Higher Dividend

    By Jonathan Yates - July 10, 2012 | Tickers: SPY, DIA, BA

    Boeing (NYSE: BA) is in the proverbial "sweet spot" for cash flow and needs to increase its dividend yield to reward its shareholders.  At present, the dividend income for the aerospace behemoth is around  2.40%, about average for a stock on the Standard & Poors's 500 Index (NYSEMKT: SPY).  The payout ratio, however, at under 30%, is well below the historic payout ratio of around 50%.

    The loyal and more »

  • Bet with Bernanke: The House Always Wins

    By Jonathan Yates - July 6, 2012 | Tickers: ^DJI, TLT, UUP, SPY, DIA

    Without question, the most significant development for the global economy from The Great Recession has been the emergence of the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke as the uber market maker of all time.  Market makers profit by matching buyers and sellers.  It is a very lucrative role as market makers, in addition to making a commission, are also positioned to know who is buying and who is selling at exactly more »

  • Everyone Can Capitalize on Caterpillar

    By Jonathan Yates - July 5, 2012 | Tickers: BAC, CAT, DIA, BA

    Like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Caterpillar's (NYSE: CAT) relationship with the financial markets is volatile yet long term and forgiving in nature.  A member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Caterpillar has a price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-earnings growth ratio, dividend payout ratio and return-on-equity ratio that are all very solid; and, as a result, offers much to income, growth and value investors. Yet, Caterpillar as a beta of 1 more »

  • Malaysia’s Growth Fueled by Islamic Bonds

    By Peter Pham - June 8, 2012 | Tickers: EWM, SPY, DIA

    In just about every macroeconomic measure that matters Malaysia has been at the forefront of consistency of growth.  Since 2000 real GDP growth has averaged 5.1% with an average CPI inflation rate of 2.8%.  By contrast Vietnam has seen very high GDP growth but it has done so at the expense of consumer prices and a massive devaluation of the Dong.  Since 2004 Malaysia’s GDP has doubled more »

  • McDonald's Delicious Dividends

    By Andrés Cardenal - May 10, 2012 | Tickers: MCD, SPY, DIA

    There are different ways to value a company and calculate the returns investors could expect from it in the long term. At the end of the day, achieving a reasonable estimate is not only a matter of the mathematical formulas employed, the key factor to consider is the inputs and suppositions entered into the valuation model. There is an expression used to describe this problem GIGO: garbage in, garbage out more »

  • The Fatal Flaws of Buy-and-Hold

    By Mike Dever - May 8, 2012 | Tickers: FXI, EWA, EZA, EWD, SPY, DIA

    Virtually all buy-and-hold statistics are created with the benefit of hindsight. If we could invest in the “Hindsight Fund”, where we decide today where we would have placed our money last week or last year, then this would not be a problem.  Unfortunately, no such fund exists.

    Of course, most studies are based on retrospective analysis, which may have little to no bearing on real-time action or reaction. Announcing what more »

  • IBM Will Keep Beating the Market

    By Andrés Cardenal - May 2, 2012 | Tickers: IBM, QQQ, SPY, DIA

     

     

    In the chart above we compare the performance of IBM (NYSE: IBM) versus three very popular ETFs which track widely followed market indexes:  S&P Depository Receipts (NYSEMKT: SPY) for the S&P 500, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Trust (NYSEMKT: DIA) for the Dow Jones Index and PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) replicates the Nasdaq 100 Index.

    The conclusion is quite clear; IBM has done much better than the more »

  • DJIA & Gold, to Your Corners

    By J. Keith Johnson - April 5, 2012 | Tickers: DIA, GLD, PHYS

    For many investors there seems to be some sort of boxing match between metals and stock indices, as though investing in one excluded the other. While such myopia can strangle a portfolio, today we’ll take a look at gold’s value against what is probably the most prominent of all stock indices, the Dow Jones Industrial Average - Traded as SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT: DIA).

    Recent excitement has focused on the more »

  • Transports Suggest Bull Market Still Early

    By Michael Gayed - January 31, 2012 | Tickers: FDX, IYT, DIA, UPS, VWO

    “There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.” - Robert Brady

    I get the growing sense that traders and investors really don't know what to do in this market. After all, equities are having their best start to a year in decades, with some emerging markets (NYSEMKT: VWO) up well over 20% for the year (and the year is only four more »

  • 5 Stocks Trading On Very High Volume

    By Christopher French - January 24, 2012 | Tickers: CCOI, FCH, SHLD, DIA, TLB

    Fears that nagged market at years end are bearing fruit today. News from Europe is progressing more or less as expected. Losses are building up and growth is slowing. Greece is expected to sign a deal resulting in losses of 70% for its bond holders. Europe still has a long way to go, and so does Asia. China's economy is slowing at an increasing rate. Our own economy is more »

  • The Return of Broker-Dealers

    By Michael Gayed - January 20, 2012 | Tickers: SCHW, GS, IAI, DIA, AMTD

    “Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.” - Louis Pasteur

     As I've been writing about on a number of sites I offer my analysis to, the Winter Resolution following the Summer Crash and Fall Melt-Up of 2011 appears to be playing out as I thought it would. I began writing in late December about the idea that the volatile sideways movement of last year was going to more »