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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
UltraShort S&P ETF Doubles Up in Downward Trend	Short exchange traded funds (ETFs) are meant to head up as the market heads south - something it seems to have been doing a lot of lately. The ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 (SDS) and Rydex Inverse 2x S&P 500 ETF are (RSW) no exception, especially as they are designed to deliver twice the opposite performance of its underlying index. The S&P has had some upswings in the last several months, but overall, it's on a downward trend: In the last month, it's lost 1.7% Over three months, ...	February 17, 2008
An Economist at Last — Life Changes for David	I started my business career as an actuary. For an actuary, though, I had an unusual background — I wasn’t a math or a statistics major, I was an economics major, though admittedly, one with a lot of math. You can’t get through the Ph.D. courses in econometrics without a lot of math. In my business career, I’ve put my economics background to use, and added to it through studying finance. Now, I studied much of the finance and economics of risk literature back in g...	February 06, 2008
This Week on StockHouse July 2 – 6	The official start of summer arrived in a trading week shortened by the U.S. and Canadian national holidays. Falcon Oil and Gas (TSX: V.FO) occupied the top Bullboard spot in this week’s Top Five (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19920 ). After this week’s takeover offer for copper producer Aur Resources (TSX: T.AUR), Buzz on the BullBoards reporter Sean Mason recorded the discussion on the HudBay Minerals (TSX: T.HBM) board, and found takeover talk (http://www.sto...	July 07, 2007
Four at Four: Bad Breadth	MarketBeat noted yesterday that breadth was often an accurate indicator of how the market was going — and it’s not an exception in today’s sharp late-day plunge. With the Dow industrials slumping into the close and the S&P 500 losing 1.2%, it’s no surprise to see losers outnumber winners on the New York Stock Exchange by three-to-one. “Momentum indicators suggest we should see some kind of pullback,” says Mike Paulenoff of MPTrader.com. Home Depot&rsq...	June 20, 2007
Four at Four: Witching and Hoping	This week’s rally was convincing in some ways, but the week of the month in which options expire is typically positive, so some analysts are holding off on celebrating this week’s surge. Sy Harding of Asset Management Research Corp. notes that the week after June expirations has been down for the past eight years in a row and 15 of the past 17 years. “So I won’t read anything into the market’s recovery this week until we see what happens next week,” he says. Anoth...	June 15, 2007
Rallies, and More Rallies	That didn’t take long at all. The major indexes continue to streak, and a number of technical strategists can’t help but think stocks are ready for another push higher in the next couple of weeks. Don’t stop believin’. Bond rates rose, oil prices rose, and the equity market blasted out of its malaise for three consecutive stellar sessions, leaving the S&P 500 just short of an all-time closing high. Mike Paulenoff, head of MPTrader.com, sees the S&P 500 headed...	June 15, 2007
Midday Tidbits — New York and the CPI	Here’s what’s on our minds as the S&P and Dow both make a bid for an all-time closing high: David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors points out in a recent commentary that Barclays economists found that most of April’s decline in the owner-equivalent rent portion of the consumer price index was the result of a sharp dropoff in rents in New York City (as existing home sales recovered in that area). “At Cumberland we have been proceeding under the assumption that the nati...	May 23, 2007

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