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Moody’s Reviews U.S. Banks, Effectively A Downgrade Without Formality (BAC, C, WFC, BK, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: June 2, 2011 at 10:38 am

Moody's is not without question over how it rated (and still rates) many issues after the credit crisis.  The problem with that caveat is that ratings agencies are still considered ...
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Daily Dividend: Triple-Leverage ETFs Versus Dividends and S&P (SPY, FAZ, FAS, BAC, C, WFC, JPM)

Posted: March 24, 2011 at 2:22 pm

Investors are still trying to key off of which banks can and cannot hike their dividends under Federal Reserve approval.  In short, it is the healthy versus the unhealthy.  We ...
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D-Day ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 Today (FAS, FAZ, XHB, FXF, CYB, UUP, GLD, DGP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ)

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 11:59 am

The elections are over and the Republicans took over the House but not the Senate as expected.  Today is D-Day for Quantitative Easing or QE2... Decision Day.  Now it is ...
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Investing in Bubbles: ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 (GLD, DGP, FXF, CYB, CNY, UUP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: October 27, 2010 at 8:31 am

Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head.  What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind ...
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New Leverage & Inverse ETF Competition (KBW, KRU, KRS, FAS, FAZ, UYG, SEF)

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 3:30 pm

By now you know all about leveraged ETF and leveraged inverse ETF products.  But you might not have heard of two new leveraged and inverse ETFs that launched from ProShares ...
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Favorable ETF Trends Showing Inflows (FAS, FAZ, SPY, QQQQ, IJH, VWO, EEM, RSX, EWW, JNK, HYG, TBT)

Posted: April 18, 2010 at 11:07 am

The end of this last week and weekend reviews showed how the highly volatile Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) and the Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares ...
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The Unusual Suspects (AVAV, AAPL, BSX, C, GGP, GS, HSP, LULU, PALM, GLD, FAZ, FAS)

Posted: April 17, 2010 at 12:04 pm

This weekend's edition of the Unusual Suspects would have probably been all about earnings, earnings, earnings.  Friday's SEC-Goldman news changed that.  Our cast of characters for this coming week's Unusual ...
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Financials Right Under Key Technical Alert Levels (BAC, JPM, WFC, GS, C, FAS, XLF, FAZ)

Posted: December 24, 2009 at 11:15 am

Earlier this week came an alert that a technical event was likely to be seen in the major money center banks and major financial institution stocks pertaining to the 50-day ...
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Top Financial Earnings on Deck (JPM, GS, C, BAC, PRSP, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 2:03 pm

This week is the week we have 6 DJIA components reporting earnings as the first real week of earnings season, but the big financial stocks reporting will set the tone ...
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Inverse-Leverage ETFs Regain Favor As S&P Breaks 1,000 (FAZ, SKF, SDS, DUG, SRS)

Posted: September 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm

It was just last week that the DJIA was on its eighth consecutive day of a rally and the junkiest of companies were running rampant.  But as the economic numbers ...
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ETFs/ETNs Becoming Hybrid Closed-End Funds (USO, UNG, DBO, DXO, GAZ, GSG, GS, MS, GLD, SLV, JJC, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: August 24, 2009 at 11:30 am

Two months ago it was a carnal sin to suggest that certain exchange-traded funds or notes which track commodities would start trading more like a closed-end fund based upon supply ...
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More Official Warnings on Leveraged ETFs (FAS, FAZ, UYG, SKF, SDS, SSO)

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 9:49 am

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to issue an Investor Alert yesterday called "Leveraged and Inverse ETFs: Specialized Products with Extra Risks for Buy-and-Hold ...
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Brokerage Giant Restricts Leveraged and Inverse ETF Products (FAS, FAZ, UYG, SKF, SDS, SSO)

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm

The movement against, or at least a move to better quantify, leveraged ETFs is still going.  In fact, it is becoming more clear.  While this is not against any single ...
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Mass. Inquiry on Leveraged ETF’s (FAS, FAZ, UYG, SKF, SDS, SSO)

Posted: July 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm

There may be some misconceptions out in the market over an inquiry into the leveraged ETF universe.  The Massachusetts Secretary of State has inquired into the sales, marketing, and disclosure ...
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ETF Reverse Splits Have Arrived… More Looming? (FAS, FAZ)

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 7:23 am

When we first floated the notion that Direxion may need to consider conducting a reverse stock split on its two Triple-Leverage cult ETFs for the financial sector, this was a ...
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