Leveraged Bear ETF Shines as Gold Prices Lose Luster
Gold prices stumbled for the third straight day in a row, taking the shine off gold bulls, but benefitting inverse gold exchange-traded…
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U.S. Dollar Could be Winner Regardless of Midterm Election Results
The U.S. dollar could care less if political analysts’ forecasts portend to the Democrats winning the House of Representatives or the Republicans…
JPMorgan Likes Europe Corporates, Sees U.S. 10Y Buyers Dissipating
In this interview by “Bloomberg Surveillance,” JPMorgan Asset Management Global Head of Fixed Income Bob Michele discusses Treasury yields, Chinese central bank…
Leveraged Gold ETFs Slough Off Trade Wars
Leveraged gold ETFs like the Direxion Daily Jr Gld Mnrs Bull 3X ETF (NYSEArca: JNUG) and Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X…
3 Benefits of Rising Interest Rates
The U.S. economy continues to be full steam ahead like a raging locomotive backed by a strong stock market that has already…
Inflation, Rates, U.S. Dollar Could Set Leveraged Gold ETFs in Motion
The dollar got some news it didn’t want to hear on Thursday when the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the consumer price…
Rising Natural Interest Rates Putting Pressure on Gold
The natural rate of interest, which reflects the rate of growth in gross domestic product relative to its trend rate and is…
Turkey Crisis Evokes Risk-Off Sentiment for Investors
At a time when the major indexes in the United States capital markets are nearing record levels, Turkey’s economic crisis and its…
JPMorgan: Late Cycle Can Bring Big Gains
A recent Bloomberg article addresses the question of whether to “push the sell button on winning trades,” given that the global economy…
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Discusses Trade Wars and Economy
Jacob Lew, partner at Lindsay Goldberg and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, was on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia” to discuss the trade tensions between…
Global Financial Crisis Brewing, Says George Soros
In a recent speech, billionaire money manager George Soros warned that the European Union is facing an “imminent existential threat,” according to…
U.K. ETFs Up Despite Resignations of Key Brexit Officials
Britain’s national soccer team is finding their groove with their entry into the semifinals of the World Cup, but the state of…
Dollar is Our Currency But Your Problem
Emerging market risk is on the rise and the dollar has undergone huge fluctuations. Let’s tie this back to the origin and…
U.S. Dollar ETF a Dud Among Major Currency ETFs
The PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSEArca: UUP), the tracking exchange traded fund for the U.S. Dollar Index, is already…