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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street Dylan Ratigan hosted CNBC’s “Fast Money” Monday night. He kicked the show with a discussion of the markets negative action towards the news of the U.S. government’s bailout plan to inject $700 billion into the financial sector. Karen Finerman said there is a lot of concern on Wall Street because nobody knows how the government is going to implement the plan. She says there is a sneaking fear on the street of what happens if it doesn’t work. “Is there anything else ...	September 23, 2008
High Foreclosures, Low Home Prices Don’t Detract from ETFs	Stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are up this morning, even though the markets had a slate of bad news with coffee and a side of bacon. Foreclosures in the United States shot up 55% in July from a year ago, says Alan Zibel for the Associated Press. It was also an increase of 8% from June. Even though the government intervened to help stem the housing crisis, it’s predicted that nearly 2.8 million homes will either face foreclosure, turn their homes over to lenders or sell the propert...	August 14, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street WORD VIDEO HERE Dennis Gartman The traders spoke with Dennis Gartman, author of The Gartman Letter, about the future of oil prices. Gartman said the longs are throwing up and the shorts are feeling like kings. He doesn’t think that trend is about to change for crude oil. He said gold looks awful and didn’t trade up when it should have. Gartman thinks gold and the dollar are changing their major trends. He disclosed he is short crude oil here and would look to buy t...	July 29, 2008
Consumers, Real Estate ETFs Looking Up	Home prices are down and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are up. The Case-Shiller index of 20 cities in the United States fell 15.8% in May compared with a year ago, a record decline since its 2000 inception, reports J.W. Elphinstone for the Associated Press. Not one city in the index saw a price increase. Since the index peaked in July 2006, home values have dropped off by 18.4%. While some areas posted record declines, some areas showed that the housing value drops were slowing. Las Vegas lost th...	July 29, 2008
Homes Sales and Prices Fall, Real Estate ETFs Head Up	Bargain hunters once again are emerging, seeking out real estate exchange traded funds (ETFs) after more bad news from the sector was released this morning. New home sales fell for the sixth time in seven months in May, and median prices kept up the downhill slide as well, reports Martin Crutsinger for the Associated Press. Sales were off by 2.5% from April, and the median price fell 5.7% from one year ago. Low prices aren't doing much to boost sales, thanks to tighter lending standards, send...	June 25, 2008
Quant Approach to TAA: Equity-Like Returns with Bond-Like Volatility	It is always nice to see a model continue to perform out-of-sample. Below are the results of the "Quant Approach to TAA" paper since it left off in 2005. Equity-like returns with bond-like volatility and low drawdowns. Obviously, much of this outperformance is due to the spectacular run in commodities and the (relatively) high allocation this model uses at 20% of the portfolio. This does not include June and the additional 5% dump in the S&P500. One could use five simple ETFs to r...	June 24, 2008
International Markets, ETFs Catching U.S. Housing Disease	The U.S. housing crisis is taking its toll on other countries, and it could hit their exchange traded funds (ETFs) if it persists for long. Real estate prices are plummeting in the Irish countryside, the Spanish coast and even parts of Northern India, reports Mark Landler for the New York Times. Some property analysts abroad are expressing fear of a wholesale collapse. Western European once were buying investment properties in places such as Warsaw and Estonia - but no longer. In India, prices...	April 15, 2008
Baby Boomers Might Consider Dividend ETFs	The first crop of baby boomers are reaching the age of retirement and will most likely shift their investment focus to fixed-income products, including bond exchange traded funds (ETFs). While fixed-income products provide dependable income, there's a drawback: they don't account for the eroding value of inflation. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the baby boom segment of the population will rise over the next 20 years, accounting for 42% of the population. This will drive a major deman...	March 25, 2008
Mortgage Crisis Goes On, Dragging Home and Financial ETFs	Financial and real estate exchange traded funds (ETFs) headed south after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the mortgage crisis was going to continue. With that, he urged lenders to lower their loan amounts and help distressed homeowners. Even with the relief efforts already in place, he said, the problem will still exist for awhile longer, reports Jeannine Aversa for the Associated Press. Bernanke's suggestion might not appeal to lenders, though, who are reluctant to write down prin...	March 04, 2008
Housing and Big Ticket Item Sales Drop, Taking ETFs With Them	More housing and consumer numbers came in today, affected real estate and retail exchange traded funds (ETFs). The Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell in January by 2.8%. It's the slowest pace in 13 years. The median price of a home also dropped to $216,000, down 4.3% from December's median price, reports the Associated Press. The slowing sales activity coupled with mortgage foreclosures is creating an inventory backlog, leading analysts to believe that the crisis is bound t...	February 27, 2008

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