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Going the Distance with SPTL
In today’s economy, investors are looking for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that can go the distance and ride out what may be an impending recession. Looking forward, the macroeconomic environment likely will be shaped by three key elements: slowing growth, falling inflation and central bank rate cuts. If this is indeed the case, longer-dated, fixed-income exchange-traded […]
Don’t Fear the AI Reaper
When one of the biggest and most important companies ever announces a fiscal push toward the use of artificial intelligence (AI), you know things are starting to get serious. On Monday, tech-behemoth Microsoft (MSFT) revealed that it is putting its money where its AI mouth is, as the Redmond giant said it was making a […]
Take a Global View with This ETF
The iShares Global Comm Services ETF (IXP) is an investment vehicle that holds a range of global companies in media, social media, entertainment, search, video gaming and telecommunications industries. The exchange-traded fund’s (ETF) holdings include companies at a variety of market-cap levels, though larger companies tend to be the targets of the lion’s share of […]
Is It Time to Buy China?
Is It Time to Buy China? ETF Talk: Take a Global View with This ETF For the Love of Conversation Confucius Say Be Noble *********************************************************** Is It Time to Buy China? As investors, we are always looking for the next big opportunity to profit. And often, ideas that worked in the past but have gone […]
Invest in Media and Entertainment with This Fund
Buy when there’s blood in the streets. It’s one of the oldest pearls of wisdom on Wall Street, and for good reason. You see, often the sectors that have been bloodied the most one year are the ones that come back the strongest the next year. So, with this bloody notion in mind, I present […]
For the Love of Conversation
Okay, I’ll admit it: I am in love. No, I am not speaking here of romantic love, as that’s a topic for another forum. Today, the love I want to talk about is the love I have for conversation, my love of exchanging ideas and my love of persuading someone that what I think to […]