Doug Fabian
A Macro Data Extravaganza
Today we saw a flood of alphabet soup data, with news on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the ADP report on jobs and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Let’s take each one as a separate bite here, and see what the implications are for the markets. First, today we saw the continuation of […]
ETF Talk: Eyeing GEMS for Your Portfolio
When I look for an investment opportunity, I am particularly interested in recovering markets. That’s why I was intrigued when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement on quantitative easing spurred a sell-off in global and emerging markets earlier this month. As a result, I have found an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that taps into a diverse group […]
A Sideways Summer Stall?
The markets have made a decided move to the upside since late June, but during the past couple of days we’ve seen a bit of a summer stall. Trading volumes have been relatively light, and the markets now are keying on the bevy of earnings reports that have come in. So far, we’ve seen some […]
ETF Talk: Capitalizing on Japan’s Economic Uptick
The Bank of Japan released a report on July 12 that revealed the country’s first real signs of economic recovery since 2011. Combined with the continued astonishing rise of the Japanese markets, it may be time to take another bite of the Japanese apple. The exchange-traded fund (ETF) best positioned to tap these recent developments […]
Making Money Alert: The Honey Badger Stock Market
Stocks just want to go higher, and it doesn’t matter if the Fed is going to peel back quantitative easing, or if GDP growth in the second quarter is going to be a pathetic 1%. Buyers just keep buying, and that means stocks have recovered all of what they lost during the “taper” scare in […]
ETF Talk: Investing in Japan’s Interest Rate Policy
To follow up on last week’s ETF Talk about profiting from Japan’s “Abenomics,” this week we will explain how to profit directly from the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) monetary policy.