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• Fast Money Recap: Housing Comeback?

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 469
  The trading panel discusses Home Depot, the housing numbers and whether the housing market is making a comeback now.
  14 hours ago

• Weekly ETF Rewind: Dollar Pullback May Offer Year-End Relief to Equities

  
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  Jeff Pietsch submits: (Click image to enlarge/ Glossary ) Dollar strength on the back of the FOMC s quantitative easing withdrawal time line left the S&P 500 ( SPY ) down -0.3% even as the less sensitive Russel 2000 ( IWM ) finished up +1.7% . In as much as currencies often trend, ...
  2 days ago

• Six Defensive ETF Plays

  
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  Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: The markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been pushing upward, and defensive sectors been leading the pack. Let’s take a look at the types of defensive plays offered in the world of ETFs. Defensive sectors have led the market over the last few weeks, remarks Gary ...
  5 days ago

• 6 Defensive ETF Plays You Can Use Now

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 549
  The markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been pushing upward, and defensive sectors been leading the pack. Let’s take a look at the types of defensive plays offered in the world of ETFs.Defensive sectors have led the market over the last few weeks, remarks Gary Gordon for TheStreet,...
  5 days ago

• A Complete Guide to the Cheapest ETFs

  
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  Michael Johnston submits: The reasons for the rise of the ETF industry are numerous: intraday liquidity, (potentially) superior tax efficiency, and enhanced transparency relative to traditional actively-managed mutual funds have all contributed to the billions of dollars of inflows that these funds have seen in ...
  6 days ago

• Economic Sector Performance Following Market Bottoms

  
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  Shiv Kapoor submits: Handling recessions is easy. If you follow a suitable portfolio allocation, by the time the yield curve is normal, you will have reduced over-weights in equity and transitioned to a portfolio with market weight sector allocations. Then as the yield curve inverts, assuming that you follow an ...
  6 days ago

• Sector Performance and the Economic Cycle

  
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  Shiv Kapoor submits: Nothing is absolutely predictable but economic cycles tend to follow a somewhat predictable course and within the economic cycle, sectors too fall in line with an element of predictability. Secular trends can influence how different sectors perform during an economic cycle. For example, if ...
  1 week ago

• Fed Target Rate: Nowhere to Go But Up

  
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  The next FOMC rate decision is tomorrow at 2:15 PM. The current survey of economists by Bloomberg forecasts a rate hike by the Federal Reserve in the second or third quarter of 2010. Like we have in the past, we analyzed how the market reacts to the beginning of a new rate cycle. In the six months ...
  1 week ago

• Defensive ETFs in Drivers Seat

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 469
  Defensive sectors have led the way on a momentum basis in recent weeks.
  1 week ago

• AAPL-Bull Buys Call Spread

  
  Phils Stock World — Authority: 502
  Today’s tickers: AAPL, GLD, XLU, AEP, CI, CHK, XEL, OSK, LLL, JAVA & BSX AAPL - Apple, Inc. – A long-term bullish play on the iPod manufacturer suggests the price of the stock could skyrocket by July 2010. Apple’s shares increased more than 1% during the session to $196.96. It looks like one trader ...
  1 week ago

• Defensive ETFs In The Top Spot: Is The “Risk Trade” Finished?

  
  ETF Expert — Authority: 426
  There’s no question that defensive sectors have led the way on a momentum basis. SPDR Select Utilities (XLU) and iShares Telecom (IYZ) amassed 8.4% and 10.5% respectively over the last 4 weeks.Yet this may have something to do with year-end yield harvesting and/or efforts to combine cash...
  1 week ago

• Chart of the Week: A Month of New Sector Leadership

  
  VIX and More — Authority: 563
  During the course of the past month or two, stocks have drifted sideways, lacking buying conviction and strong leadership. In this week’s chart of the week below, I have tracked the performance of the nine AMEX sector SPDR s over the course of the past month. Note that former leaders financials ( XLF ) and ...
  1 week ago

• Weekly ETF Rewind: Dollar Strengthens as Commodities Pull Back

  
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  Jeff Pietsch submits: In spite of some mid-week "moodiness" ( US Credit Rating Questioned - Reuters ) the S&P 500 ( SPY ) ended up a flat +0.1%. Complete Story »
  1 week ago

• 5 ETFs that Have Bucked the 1-Month Blues

  
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  Gary Gordon submits: Some may have believed that the equity markets were firing on all cylinders until Dubai World’s debt struggles became headline fodder over T-Giving. Others have suggested that investors began ratcheting back risk a week earlier (circa 11/18); that’s when a surprise drop in new home ...
  1 week ago

• Wednesday Options Recap

  
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  Frederic Ruffy submits: Sentiment Stocks traded in a narrow range in cautious early trading, but the major averages are holding modest gains late Wednesday. After falling 104-points Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened modestly lower amid ongoing worries about credit after rating agencies recently ...
  1 week ago

• Long / Short ETF Portfolio Strong in Weak Market

  
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  OptionMonster submits: Given the recent market weakness, it’s no surprise that Sector Detector’s long/short portfolios have outperformed. This week, Sabrient’s SectorCast-ETF model remains defensive. Of course, the underlying quantitative model isn’t aware that we are entering a time of year that is ...
  2 weeks ago

• XLU : The major top !

  
  ETF CORNER — Authority: 140
  In the last post about XLU I have said that the "A" level would be around $31 (Click Here)  ! I think that a major top is in on XLU . The fall will be long and deep .. and will eventually breach the March 2009 lows ($22.65) in the future ! For those who have missed my old comparison between ...
  2 weeks ago

• Utility Dividend Yields vs. 10-Year Treasuries

  
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  Tom Schumacher submits: The utilities sector has been much talked about since Warren Buffet and Bill Gross threw their support behind it. We thought it would be interesting to take a look at the historical yields of utilities vs. the 10-year Treasury yield. The current spread provides an opportunity to short the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bond Market Outlook: Hard Pressed to Find Attractive Opportunities

  
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  In contrast to a year ago, when - in the wake of the financial collapse – the bond market was replete with opportunities, one is hard-pressed these days to find attractive fixed income investments. Here is a sampling of the slim pickings available to bond investors: Complete Story »
  2 weeks ago

• Utilities and Telecom: Market Leaders?

  
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  Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: Two sectors that pretty much never lead the way during a bull market have done just that over the past couple of weeks. While the market as a whole hasnt necessarily been on fire, it has made a series of new highs recently, and during this time, the Utilities and Telecom ...
  2 weeks ago

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