A few weeks ago, Lance Helfert and Paul Orfalea’s West Coast Asset Management filed its 13F Form at the U.S.
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February 19 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Editor's Note: PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ:QQQ), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY), SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSEARCA:GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ...
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August 21 - ETF Trading, News - Comments
Gold's foray deep into bear market territory Monday is claiming a predictable batch of victims, namely popular ETFs such as the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) and the iShares ...
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April 16 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Precious metals investors have been on a wild ride this year, as economies pulled back and forth and a number of major events had these metals all over the board.
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December 18 - ETF Trading - Comments
While the market seemed generally unimpressed by the Federal Reserve's pledge to hold interest rates down until the U.S.
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December 14 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Two years ago, ETF Securities launched the first ever physically-backed precious metals ETF that focuses exclusively on silver, platinum and palladium.
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December 11 - News - Comments
FactorShares, an ETF provider that was recently acquired by GenCap Ventures, has debuted the first ever ETF to focus on diamonds and gemstones.
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December 3 - News - Comments
As is typical for the commodity world, all eyes have been fixated on gold in recent months.
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November 28 - Lists - Comments
For more than two years now, issuers like JP Morgan and iShares have been battling to bring physically-backed copper ETFs to the markets.
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November 23 - News, We Disagree - Comments
As is perhaps always the case, commodity markets have had quite an action-packed year thus far.
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November 23 - Lists - Comments
It should come as no surprise that Peter Schiff has been very vocal about his opinions on the most recent election results.
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November 13 - News - Comments
Late Tuesday night, it was announced that Barack Obama had won his re-election campaign, and will spend four more years in the White House.
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November 12 - News - Comments
After Tuesday’s election results, analysts of all kinds are weighing in on how they think the next four years will go.
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November 9 - News - Comments
With the presidential election now behind us, investors and traders alike will bring their attention outside of the political arena and back to the economic data front.
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November 8 - News - Comments
Silver investing, though often overshadowed by the prevalence of gold, is still among the most popular commodity allocations in today’s markets.
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November 8 - News - Comments
ETF investing turned the commodity world from a difficult-to-reach asset class to exposure that any retail investor could quickly add to their portfolio.
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October 29 - News - Comments
Just a short time ago, silver had been surgingrelatively under the radar.
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October 23 - News - Comments
So far this year, investors that have held silver assetsare outperforming the market as a whole.
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October 23 - News - Comments
Joining the likes of Jim Rogers and George Soros, PIMCO has now thrown its hat into the hard asset ring. As the economic outlook for the U.S.
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October 22 - News - Comments
The period between 2000 and 2009 is often referred to as the “Lost Decade” for U.S.
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October 16 - News - Comments
With the Federal Reserve firing up the presses for a third round of quantitative easing, it’s only a matter of time before more talk of imminent hyperinflation pops up.
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October 15 - News - Comments
Silver has been an important metal for thousands of years, often used as a medium of exchange or jewelry in ancient times.
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October 15 - News - Comments
October has an interesting reputation when it comes to the performance of stocks. The tenth month of the year is when some of the most wicked market plunges have taken place.
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October 11 - Stock Analysis - Comments
It has been an interesting year for investors and traders focused on the metals.
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October 11 - News - Comments
After gathering more than $1 trillion in total assets under management, ETFs have cemented their placein the financial world.
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October 10 - News - Comments
Even before the announcement of QE3, precious metals had been holding their own in 2012.
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October 8 - News - Comments
Through the end of September, 2012 has by and large been another solid year for commodities.
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October 3 - News - Comments
Options are, and please pardon the obvious pun, an invaluable option when it comes to crafting trading and investment strategies.
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September 27 - News - Comments
Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini has long been in the limelight given some of his bold predictions on the economy.
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September 27 - News - Comments
As the years have gone on, commodity ETFs have continued to surge in popularity.
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September 26 - News - Comments
In the minds of many, our stock market is a bit bloated at its current levels.
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September 25 - News - Comments
One of the biggest draws to commodity investing has long been its low correlation to equities.
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September 25 - News - Comments
George Soros was a major buyer of SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) in late 2011. He increased his position in GLD by +13% during the third quarter.
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, The Smart Set - Comments
Anne Dias Griffin, Ken Griffin’s wife, has been managing a hedge fund since 2001 but she stopped filing 13F forms last year.
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July 12 - News - Comments
Silver was above $50 just a couple of days ago. Not anymore. iShares Silver Trust (SLV) lost nearly $8 per share during the last couple of days.
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May 3 - News - Comments