Healthcare ETFs Rally on Monday Merger Mania - ETF News And Commentary
Sweta Killa - Zacks Investment Research - Tue Mar 31, 9:20AM CDT
The flurry of deals sent the healthcare ETFs higher, reversing the losses resulting from the biotech meltdown last week.
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Worst Revenue And Earnings Declines Since Crisis Year 2009
Wolf Richter - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 30, 8:16AM CDT
Stocks have soared. But despite maxed-out financial engineering and ceaseless Wall-Street hype, the first half is shaping up to be tough. Week after week, corporations and analysts have been whittling down their estimates. By now, revenues of the...
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Which Is Better: Cap-Weighting Or Equal-Weighting?
John Dowdee - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 27, 3:56PM CDT
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Biotech’s Busted — Here’s What To Do Now…
Greg Guenthner - Daily Reckoning - Fri Mar 27, 10:41AM CDT
This post Biotech’s Busted — Here’s What To Do Now… appeared first on Daily Reckoning . Biotechs blasted lower all week. Semiconductors hit the mat. And the once high-flying Nasdaq lost more than 3% as of yesterday—topping off its worst...
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Market Trend Analysis By Comparing Equal Weight To Market Weight Indexes
Richard Shaw - Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 27, 10:20AM CDT
As a generality, a healthy stock market up trend has broad participation in the trend by a large or increasing portion of its constituents; and conversely an unhealthy market has a low or declining portion of it constituents participating in an up...
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My 2015 Select Sector SPDR ETFs Algorithmic Forecast And Allocation
I Know First Research - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 26, 11:52AM CDT
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The Future's Not Over Yet: A Retrospective On Peter Thiel's 2011 Predictions
Noise Dampener - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 25, 1:28AM CDT
Peter Thiel is unique among Silicon Valley gurus in terms of his entrepreneurial success, as well as his libertarian political leanings. Part of his motivation for co-founding PayPal was to protect people in developing countries from the "fast...
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Why A 'Rate Hike Tantrum' Will Not Kill Bond ETFs In 2015
Gary Gordon - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 24, 5:51PM CDT
The 10-year Treasury note is the most recognizable, and most important, debt instrument in the world's financial system. It is vital to foreign jurisdictions, banks and investors as a way to gain exposure to the U.S. dollar, as well as interest...
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Why Anthem, Inc. Can Continue Outperforming The Health Care Sector
Brian Wu - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 24, 4:09PM CDT
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Choosing The Right Healthcare ETF
Matt Erickson - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 24, 7:47AM CDT
Not all ETFs are created equal. In many instances, some may be dramatically superior to others, even though offering what on the surface may appear to be the same market exposure. Generally speaking, it pays to be mindful of internal expense ratios,...
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URGENT: Take Profits on These 3 Trades
Greg Guenthner - Daily Reckoning - Mon Mar 23, 8:56AM CDT
This post URGENT: Take Profits on These 3 Trades appeared first on Daily Reckoning . I do not think any of these tickers is headed for a nasty crash right now. But they could pull back a bit more than we'd like. So why stick around when we've...
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Relative Risk Adjusted Return For Retirees And Those Who Prefer A Smoother Ride
Richard Shaw - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Mar 21, 12:17AM CDT
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Health Care Select Sector SPDR announces quarterly distribution of $0.208
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 1:21PM CDT
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THQ: This New Healthcare CEF Looks Positioned To Move Higher
Value and Income Insights - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 12:49PM CDT
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What To Expect When The Fed Actually Does Raise Rates
Dirk Leach - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 4:28PM CDT
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Investors Should Stick With Health Care Stocks, eBay Has Downside
at The Street - Thu Mar 19, 1:56PM CDT
The CNBC ‘Fast Money Halftime’ trading panel agrees that health care stocks still have an upside, while an analyst explains his decision to downgrade eBay.
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Unwinding The Mother Of All Carry Trades?
Leo Kolivakis - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 6:43AM CDT
Over the weekend, Mike Whitney wrote an interesting comment for Counterpunch, Why a Stronger Dollar will Lead to Deflation, Recession and Crisis : "There are no nations…. no peoples…. no Russians.. no Arabs…no third...
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Stocks Rebound After Rocky Week As Oil Prices Plummet
at The Street - Mon Mar 16, 3:10PM CDT
Stocks held onto session highs Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting beginning on Tuesday.
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Stocks Extend Session Highs as Wall Street Gears Up For Fed Meeting
at The Street - Mon Mar 16, 2:05PM CDT
Stocks hold onto session highs by midafternoon Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting that begins Tuesday.
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