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Friday Randoms 12/04/09   —  S&P has created an index that tracks the S&P 500 hedged with gold. The idea is US equity exposure for US based investors that offers protection against a decline in the US dollar. The catalyst for this was a "response to the current interest surrounding gold." Over the last ten years the gold...
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More Bernanke 12/03/09   —  In replying to Charles Schumer he talked about the difficulty in knowing whether asset prices are valued correctly or not.Ok but that completely voids his recent comments where he sees no "misalignments."Good gravy this strikes me as a rather poor showing....
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Bernanke 12/03/09   —  Ben Bernanke's comments about AIG not only sounded awful but it seemed like even he didn't believe them.This should remind us of the great philosopher from the late 20th century, George Louis Constanza who said "it is not a lie if you believe it."...
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PHO   STO   ETFInsights Conference 12/03/09   —  Yesterday I participated in the virtual ETFInsights conference put on by InvestmentNews. My co-panelists were Gus Sauter from Vanguard, Sam Stovall from S&P and Rudy Aguilera from Helios. Needless to say there are some big names there and I made four. After it was over one of the moderators said ...
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Chinese Sectorology And Other Fund Facts 12/02/09   —  As mentioned the other day the first of the China sector ETFs are up and running. GlobalX launched an industrial sector fund with ticker CHII and a consumer fund with ticker CHIQ. The original filing also included funds for financials, energy, technology and materials which IndexUniverse thinks will ...
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Even Harvard Made This Mistake 12/01/09   —  The Boston Globe (with a hat tip to Barry Ritholtz) ran an article looking at how Harvard managed it cash over the course of the last couple of decades. This cash is for short term needs not the endowment fund.For years the short term cash was invested into the endowment fund which is a longer term p...
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China Sector ETFs To Arrive Tomorrow 11/30/09   —  Probably.I was advised that the GlobalX China Consumer ETF (CHIQ) and the GlobalX China Industrial ETF (CHII) will start trading on December 1.An initial look under the hood makes a good first impression in terms of these capturing what I had hoped they would when I first mentioned the filing--that i...
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Never Mind? 11/30/09   —  So after the big standstill news last week from Dubai the UAE Central Bank is going to provide a liquidity facility to help support the banks in Dubai and instill confidence for foreign banks in the region. Apparently property prices have plunged and from what I can glean this will not eliminate pain...
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Hussman Posted Early 11/30/09   —  Hussman Funds - Weekly Market CommentAnd the money quote;Frankly, I've come to believe that the markets are no longer reliable or sound discounting mechanisms.Wow....
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HAO   FXI   Sunday Morning Coffee 11/29/09   —  A couple of interesting items in Barron's this week.First is this article about the extent to which the Chinese banks need to recapitalize and which banks have done what toward that end. The China theme has a lot of meat on the bone but it is complicated and as I have been saying all along (with no c...
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The Big Picture for the Week of November 29, 2009 11/28/09   —  A few items today.In the wake of the Dubai news the FT mentioned some of the trouble happening in Greece. For ages I have been talking about being underweight big Western Europe for having a lot of the same types of trouble that the US has but I have not mentioned the PIGS countries before.I'm not su...
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Dubai Ports Publicly Traded? 11/27/09   —  So apparently DP World, the port business of Dubai World which of course is at the center of all the hub-bub, is publicly traded on the pinksheets.The five letter designator is DPWRF and it did trade on Friday. Not surprisingly Schwab cannot accommodate anyone interested due to custody issues but it ...
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A New Default To Worry About? 11/27/09   —  Apparently the Dubai Brothers may have trouble making their next interest payment and the initial reactions from many world markets has been bad.Ahem.24/7 Wall Street provides a tidy recap and links out to some newsier articles for more info which you should take a look at.This event is still unfoldi...
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EEM   EWY   Polish Power! 11/26/09   —  The Market Vectors Poland ETF (PLND) is up and running. I mentioned this in that very high quality video I posted not realizing it would be out on so soon.As I thought, it is heavy in bank stocks, about 40% of the fund. Every country has a big bank or in Poland's case several big banks. Most countrie...
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New Single Country ETFs Coming 11/25/09   —  <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XDFKOS8pOb0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embe...
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Send It In Jerome Yancy! 11/24/09   —  Yesterday I had an article run at TSCM about ETF investing ideas for 2010. One ETF I wrote about will move bigger than the market in both directions, one should do well but have a relatively low correlation to the US market and the other is somewhat defensive.I tried to pick ETFs that have different ...
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Volatility Budgets 11/23/09   —  Recently I was asked what I thought about a particular big cap tech stock that is popular with investors. The person appeared to be surprised by my answer in such a way that lead me to think that he had not heard this point before.The stock has pluses and minuses like every stock and has a history of...
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Sunday Morning Coffee 11/22/09   —  A bit of a departure this morning as Thanksgiving is coming up in a few days. We had a bit of a scare in the Nusbaum household the last week or so. Two of our dogs have had seizures in the last couple of weeks the latest being Trixie this past Monday right before we headed out of town.Dogs have seizu...
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The Big Picture for the Week of November 22, 2009 11/21/09   —  Something to ponder.This came up in various places earlier on during this event but is worth thinking about again.Simple question; historically when do the biggest bounces in stock prices occur?While I have opinions as to what will happen the bigger thing is making sure to not get caught off guard by...
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MNA   ETP Utility and Silliness 11/20/09   —  First utility. IndexIQ is coming out of the gate as a bit of an enigma. The new Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA) at first glance seems odd to me. There have been several articles already that have ripped it up for not really being an arbitrage product and I will say I don't get why shorting the broad marke...
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