ETFs and Mutual Funds

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If you have heard it once, you have heard it dozens of times: There is an ETF strategy for just about everything. Now there is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) strategy that is designed to track an...
Kim Forrest of Fort Pitt Capital Group offers three of her top picks for earnings winners.
So-called hedged ETFs take all or most of the currency risk out of the equation. They simply trade in dollars and track the raw underlying equity market indexes on which they are based.
The stock market just found a new foe for earnings season. That would be Wal-Mart.
The long and short of the matter is that the more the VIX rises, the more selling pressure that is generally seen in the stock market.
It may not seem like much of a big deal to U.S. investors, but the Asian equities markets will have to trade without Japan leading off for the first three days of the week.
Now that the market has pulled back, and with investors looking for key value stocks, 24/7 Wall St. has decided to evaluate the most dominant investments held by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.
With such a crazy week, with stocks tanking and then rifling back up, it is a wonder that the name Warren Buffett has not been thrown around like hot potatoes.
In the midst of the ridiculous market volatility this week, Vanguard announced an addition to its portfolio of funds for investors to purchase: the Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund.
During market sell-offs, market crashes and periods of major uncertainty, triple-leverage exchange traded funds become the most battered of all.
Any time there is a major sell-off in stock, bonds usually are the beneficiary. The problem this time around is that interest rates are already so low.
ThinkstockJust after markets opened on Wednesday morning, Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors Oil Refiners ETF (NYSEMKT: CRAK), which is the first U.S.-listed exchange traded fund to offer...
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govWarren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) have released the official equity holdings of Berkshire Hathaway as of June 30, 2015. It has been the case for years...
The take of 24/7 Wall St. is that trying to predict a bottom in a major market is nearly impossible. Most investors who fish for a bottom do so over the course of weeks, months or even longer.
It turns out that the sector for master limited partnerships (MLPs) had rolled back over. It was just in the past two weeks or so that the MLPs tried to bounce off of lows.