May 3, 2011
in Federal Reserve, US Treasury, USD, currencies, exchange rates, forex, inflation, international economy, market reports, market trends, sovereign debt, technical analysis, world reserve currency
The US Dollar has sunk to 2.5 year lows. This is a significant time frame, as currently, Brent oil futures are also at 2.5 year highs. Outdoing both of these, gold is at all-time nominal highs, having closed April 2011 at $1563/oz.
Bernanke keeps saying that a strong dollar is in the U.S.’ best interests, and [...]
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October 28, 2010
in Asia, BRIC, China, ETF(s), bubble, commodities, exports, frontier markets, indexes, market reports, metals, mining, protectionism, rare metals
A new Rare Earths ETF is on the market today, to take advantage of the coming rare earths bubble as a result of China reducing its rare earth exports, and threatening to reduce rare earth exports, to Japan and other countries.
I’ve written about the top 40+ rare earths in another post, which I encourage you [...]
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May 9, 2010 · 16 comments
in DIY, cashflow, consumers, credit cards, determination, discipline, estates, financial education, financial fitness, financial planning, goals, life, money decisions, psychology, spending, success, wealthbuilding
If you’ve been around on the interwebs and Twitter enough, and if you’ve read enough personal finance books, you’ll know a heck of a lot about The Millionaire Next Door. She or he spends less than you’d think, they don’t drive a Rolls Royce or Jaguar, and they’ve probably made it to millionaire within one [...]
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Would you invest in a “green energy” mutual fund? How about an “Islam-friendly ETF”? This latter option may sound new but the indexes on which it is based have actually been around for a while, and they are growing at an increasing rate.
This past week, Standard and Poor’s introduced a new TSX 60 index which [...]
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This is really interesting. As reported in the Financial Times, “J.P. Morgan has put together an Aging Population Index to track a basket of stocks that have meaningful exposure to this group in North America. It has outperformed the S&P 500 Index in six of the past eight years in both absolute and risk-adjusted terms.
The [...]
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