Posted by Goldman Andy on May 25th, 2007 in Finance ·
Investors can now track the price of oil futures without buying oil futures through a new Exchange Traded Fund. (UCR), operated by Claymore Securities. The thing that makes this unique is that the ETF does not invest in the futures either…
Posted by Goldman Andy on May 25th, 2007 in Finance ·
When investors invest in these Exchange Traded Funds, the fund managers purchase the physical commodity. When it comes to Gold prices, U.S. Investors should keep a close eye on what Indian Investors are doing. Many people are now investing in gold using Exchange Traded Funds as the investment vehicle. On the U.S…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
The world of Exchange Traded Funds has been expanding choices to investors at an astounding rate. After dissecting stock sectors every which way, new funds were established that moved into the areas of commodities by allowing investors to invest in oil, metals and currencies.
Now the choices are becoming even more sophisticated…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
The trend in the numbers of homes for sale is continuing to increase across the country. Housing inventories are clearly rising. The more houses for sale, the more downward pressure there will be on home sales.
A study by ZipRealty has found that housing inventory has increased in 18 major markets across the US…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
Now that we are approaching Labor Day we are at a transformation point for the trading year. The slow low volume trading of summer is about to come to an end and we are likely to see higher trading volumes going into the fall.
Looking at the top ten ETFs for this year so far, we see two groups that stand out…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
Although the foreclosure rate in California soared in the second quarter, it is still not clear exactly how bad this is…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
The boom times of buying a single family home or condo and quickly flipping it for a profit has passed. In spite of warnings of housing bubbles and a real estate market waiting for disaster, investors this time last year were feverishly buying up real estate in Florida, Las Vegas, Arizona and other hot spots. One year later what has happened?..
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Business ·
As the real estate bubble is topping out more and more real estate scam artists are launching attacks on homeowners…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
For the month of June 53,700 homes and condos were sold statewide in California in June. The pace of resale’s has picked up a little from May and has increased 3.8% in one month. In the broad picture home sales have decreased 20.7% from the same period last year…
Posted by Goldman Andy on April 29th, 2007 in Finance ·
The current markets are getting harder and harder to trade. It seems everything is going down. Domestic equities, Emerging markets, Asian markets, and even after a weeks rally, metals and energy markets have turned down again…