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A Currency ETF You Can Trade Right Now

Thursday, September 2, 2010 | Costas Bocelli

IS THERE AN INTERVENTION COMING IN THE CURRENCY MARKETS? That’s on the minds of investors who are positioned in the US Dollar/ Yen trade, whether they're riding the trending strength of the Yen or taking the other side, looking for it to reverse. The Yen has been gaining strength, with investors pouring into the currency as a safe haven hedge against the slowing global recovery/ possible double dip recession. In uncertain times like these, money flows to safe havens such as ...

6 'Deflation' Trades You Can Make Now

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Teeka Tiwari

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At the beginning of the year, every trader and their mother was looking for inflation. Fast forward eight months, and now the word deflation seems to be on every trader's lips. But how real is this fear? Are we to believe that inflation is actually going to go negative and that we are about to descend all the way into an actual honest-to-goodness deflationary spiral? The large drop in Treasury yields has certainly fueled the fire of this debate. We've gone from a 4% ...

Beware: Markets May be Headed for Large Drop

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | Chris Rowe

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ANOTHER 15% MARKET DROP FROM HERE? That's what one method of stock market valuation ("CAPE") is telling us right now. 15% lower brings us down to about 8,519 on the Dow-30, 1,801 on the Nasdaq, and about 892 on the S&P 500. Of course, whatever method of valuation you use (whether it's based on the P/E ratio using future operating earnings or twelve-month trailing GAAP earnings), the simple fact is that market prices deviate well above and below whatever "fair ...

How Raising Taxes Could Actually Help the Economy

Monday, August 30, 2010 | Dylan Jovine

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GEORGE BUSH WAS 100% RIGHT TO LOWER TAXES BACK IN 2003. At the time, almost every economist around was predicting surpluses "as far as the eye can see." Even the objective Congressional Budget Office (C.B.O.) predicted surpluses for the next decade. Why wouldn't the government give our own money back to us? Especially when the alternative was to let bureaucrats in Washington spend our money. That's a ridiculous proposition. What I found particularly comforting about ...

The Real Estate 'Deal of the Century'

Friday, August 27, 2010 | Ethan Roberts

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THE REAL ESTATE MARKET DIED THIS WEEK. SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS FRIDAY. REAL JOBS ARE BEING ACCEPTED IN LIEU OF FLOWERS. That was almost the headline that I was expecting to see yesterday, after several days of the absolute worst negativity I have ever heard about the U.S. real estate market. And everywhere I went, people seemed to be in mourning about it. It began on Monday, when the NY Times published an article entitled "Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts ...