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Price Bubbles Always Burst: CEMEX Makes a Head and Shoulders Top

2008-08-20T09:16:00.000-04:00

CEMEX (CX), a global provides of cement, ready-mix concrete and aggregates, is down 47.89 percent from its closing high of $39.63 seton June 15, 2007. More...

PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio's Dividend Yield Exceeds Five Percent

2008-08-19T06:10:00.000-04:00

The PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio (PEY) tracks the Mergent Dividend Achievers 50 Index, which includes the fifty highest yielding stocks of the Mergent Dividend Achievers. As of August 15, 2008, the dividend yield of this exchange-traded fund (ETF) is 5.49 percent. More...

SPDR S&P Dividend ETF's Dividend Yield Exceeds Four Percent

2008-08-18T08:39:00.000-04:00

SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY), an exchange-traded fund that closely matches the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index, holds companies with long records of increasing dividends. As of August 14, 2008, the dividend yield of SDY is 4.51 percent. More...

Profile of a Successful Investor

2008-08-17T07:01:00.000-04:00

Making money with stocks does not happen by chance. To consistently make money successful investors spend lots of time evaluating the thousands of available investment options. For many investors it takes years of trial and error to master the art of making money with stocks. More...

Do You Have the Right Stuff to Own Stocks in Today's Volatile Market?

2008-08-16T10:28:00.000-04:00

Making money with stocks is a challenge, particularly in the current uncertain market conditions. Now, you can't simply buy a stock and assume that the bull market run with it. You must make each buy and sell decision with care and insight. Anecdotal investing doesn't work well in volatile markets. More...

Own MENA (Middle East, North Africa) Stocks With Eight ETFs

2008-08-15T06:10:00.000-04:00

MENA (Middle East, North Africa) stocks are now available to U.S. investors through eight exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These ETFs have not been trading long, so they do not have a long-term record from which to evaluate their performance. More...

TJX Companies Near All-Time High But Expect Price Correction

2008-08-14T07:09:00.000-04:00

TJX Companies (TJX), the leading apparel and home fashions off-price retailer, is on the price upside. While most other large retailers have seen their stock prices fall significantly, TJX set an all-time high at $36.87 on August 8, 2008. More...

Claymore BNY/Mellon Frontier Markets ETF Offers Exposure to 17 Frontier Markets

2008-08-13T06:30:00.000-04:00

The Claymore BNY/Mellon Frontier Markets ETF (FRN), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) which started trading on June 12, 2008, includes exposure to 17 frontier markets including Bahrain, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Ukraine and United Arab Emirate. More...

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund Pays a Good Dividend Yield

2008-08-12T09:45:00.000-04:00

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that holds over 80 major U.S. financial stocks, has bounced off a low of $17.17 set on July 15, 2008. This low represents long-term support. More...

Protect Yourself When "Safe" Income Investments Go Bad

2008-08-11T10:49:00.000-04:00

Selling Toxic Debt to Seniors (BusinessWeek, August 18, 2008), tells the story of investors who lost huge sums of money when seemingly safe income funds offered by Memphis broker Morgan Keegan, a subsidiary of Regions Financial (RF), lost much of their value due to subprime mortgages. More...

Price Bubbles Always Burst: Vietnam Stock Crash

2008-08-10T09:40:00.000-04:00

When stock prices go parabolic, it's just a matter a time before they peak and head to the downside. For instance, investors and speculators bid up the Vietnam stock market four fold in just one year. More...

Market Vectors-Africa Index ETF Features 11 African Countries

2008-08-09T05:58:00.000-04:00

The Market Vectors-Africa Index ETF (AFK), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that started trading on July 10, 2008, tracks the Dow Jones Africa Titans 50 Index, which includes stocks that are based or do business in 11 African countries (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia). More...

SPDR S&P Emerging Middle East & Africa Features South African and Israeli Stocks

2008-08-08T11:17:00.000-04:00

The SPDR S&P Emerging Middle East & Africa (GAF), an exchange-traded fund (ETF), is heavily weighted with stocks from South Africa (55.22%) and Israel (22.8%). Other stocks come from Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria. More...

Price Bubbles Always Burst: Commodities Head to the Downside

2008-08-07T05:41:00.000-04:00

Commodities, as measured by the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 commodities, set an all-time high in July 2008. Since then, the index has fallen around 15 percent. The chart below shows the two-stage runup that began in early 2002. More...

Market Vectors Gulf States Index ETF Includes Gulf Cooperation Council Stocks

2008-08-06T13:51:00.000-04:00

The Market Vectors Gulf States Index ETF (MES), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that started trading on July 23, 2008, is based on the Dow Jones GCC Titans 40 Index, which includes stocks that are based or do business in five countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates) that belong to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). More...

Copper Producers Head to the Downside As Copper Prices Fall

2008-08-06T06:23:00.001-04:00

Copper producer stock prices are down as the price of copper falls from all-time highs. For instance, Southern Copper (PCU), an integrated copper producer will operations in Peru and Mexico, is down 44.37% percent from its all-time high. More...

Bloomberg Information Is Tops

2008-08-05T10:35:00.001-04:00

Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio are among the best sources of timely information about stocks, investing and economic news. More...

Deere & Company Heads to the Downside

2008-08-03T10:06:00.000-04:00

Deere & Company (DE), a maker of farming and heavy equipment, is on the downside after completing a multiyear price upside. DE on August 1, 2008 closed at $70.22, down 24.49 percent from a recent high of $92.99. More...

Check Out Money & Happiness Blog by Laura Rowley

2008-08-03T09:10:00.001-04:00

Laura Rowley gives her readers common sense suggestions on how to manage money in her Money & Happiness blog. More...

Price Patterns - Successive Price Collapses Spell Trouble for Some Shareholders and Profitable Opportunities for Others

2008-08-02T07:48:00.000-04:00

Elan Corporation (ELN), a biotechnology company, has a history of collapsing stock prices. On August 1, 2008, ELN dropped 50.47 percent after Tysabri, a drug co-marketed with Biogen (BIIB) for treating multiple sclerosis was reported to be linked to two cases of an often-fatal brain disease. More...

Price Bubbles Always Burst: Arch Coal Heads to the Price Downside

2008-08-01T09:30:00.000-04:00

Arch Coal (ACI), a leading coal producer with mining operations in Colorado, Kentucky, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, on July 31, 2008 closed at $56.31, down 24.49 percent from its all-time high of $74.57 set on June 23, 2008. More...

Australian Bank Stocks Take Hits from Bad Debt - Dividend Yields Up

2008-07-31T08:12:00.000-04:00

Australian banks are not immune from the global credit crisis brought about by risky real estate lending practices. Significant loan losses and deteriorating balance sheets have sent four large Australian bank stock prices to the price downside. More...

Avon Products Pays an Increasing Dividend

2008-07-30T08:17:00.000-04:00

Avon Products (AVP), a leading beauty company with well-known products (Avon Color, Anew, Skin-So-Soft, Advance Techniques, Avon Naturals, and Mark) and worldwide operations has a multiyear record of paying increasing dividends. More...

Banco Santander Rewards Dividend-Oriented Investors

2008-07-29T07:47:00.000-04:00

Banco Santander (STD), Spain's largest bank, has not suffered from the subprime and credit crisis afflicting most banks. Santander on July 28, 2008 closed at $18.61, down from its closing all-time high of $22.24 set on May 14, 2008. More...

Is Google Headed to $400?

2008-07-28T07:57:00.000-04:00

Remember when people speculated that Google (GOOG) was headed to $1,000? It peaked at a closing high of $741.79 before sinking to $413.62 on March 10, 2008. The stock closed at $491.98 on July 25, 2008. More...