AFP – Wall Street enters the first trading week of 2010 on a bullish note but the market remains dogged by concerns on the timing of any interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve amid economy recovery. Related Reading:Stock Market Trends: Ho-Ho-No.Trading Earnings: Are You Ready for a Pillow Fight?Stock Market Trends: ba, ba, ba [...]

AP – Few analysts forecast this year’s remarkable stock market rebound as major indexes were plunging to 12-year lows last March. Now, with most experts predicting the pace of stocks’ gains will slow in 2010, there’s reason to believe they will be proven correct. Related Reading:Stock Market Trends: Ho-Ho-No.Trading Earnings: Are You Ready for a [...]

Investor’s Business Daily – Stock mutual funds pulled a Lazarus in 2009. After falling into a deep hole, they leapt and rejoined the land of the living. Related Reading:Stock Market Trends: Ho-Ho-No.Trading Earnings: Are You Ready for a Pillow Fight?Stock Market Trends: ba, ba, ba Bennie and the BearsStock Market Trends: Out Fishing for Sucker-FishStock [...]

Michael Johnston submits: In the beginning of the ETF industry, there was SPY. From there, the initial wave of expansion included primarily “plain vanilla” equity funds offering exposure to widely-followed benchmarks, such as the Dow, Nasdaq, and even sector-specific indexes. But innovation and product development in the ETF world didn’t stop there. The last five [...]

Gary Gordon submits: Just about everyone is familiar with Jeremy Siegel’s book, Stocks For The Long Run. ETF investors are probably aware that the good professor is also a co-founder of fund provider, WisdomTree. Yet, after the worst decade on record for the S&P 500, with a -1.2% annualized return for the 2000s (dividends included), [...]