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How to Ride the Coming China ETF Surge
Vanguard Gets Cozy with China A-Shares Chinese stocks, particularly the stocks traded in Mainland China known as A-shares, have been on fire this year. The Deutsche X-Trackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF (ASHR), which tracks an index of the 300 largest and most liquid Chinese shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, has […]
Why Talk of a China Bubble is off the Mark
Don’t Fall for the China Bubble Chatter There was a whole lot of chatter out there in the financial media this week regarding China, more specifically on the question of whether a China equity bubble is starting to burst. My recommendation to you, especially if you have money in Chinese stocks, is to not fall […]
Why Investors Shouldn’t Get Complacent with the Market Highs
The ‘New Normal’ Won’t Last Stocks in the S&P 500 are at new, all-time highs. The push to this point hasn’t been really robust, though, as evidenced by the fact that year to date, SPX is only up 3.3%. Still, we can’t deny the evidence that stocks have made the move to new highs, and […]
Why Aren’t Investors Riding the Global Market Surge?
MoneyShow Musings from the Front Lines I just returned home from the Las Vegas MoneyShow, an annual trek that I feel both honored and privileged to take part in. One of the things I like most about attending the MoneyShow is what I learn from the attendees. It is through “taking the pulse” of individuals […]
What April’s Jobs Data Means for the Market
Goldilocks in the Jobs Forest The biggest data point on tap this week came early Friday morning before the opening bell, and it was the “official” April employment report. The Labor Department reported that 223,000 net new jobs were created during the month and that the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%. Average hourly earnings increased […]
Why Commodities Surged in April
Behold the April Commodities Surge April is in the books and, for equities, it was another winning month added on to a winning year-to-date performance. The S&P 500 finished the month up 0.85%, but that was a bit deceptive, as the index sold off about 1% on April 30. That decline trimmed the bullish mood […]
The Irrefutable Story of Financial Results
The Numbers Don’t Lie Very few things in life are as irrefutable as numbers. Sure, statistics can be manipulated to support all sorts of claims (witness the political realm). But when it comes to pure numeric performance, well, the numbers don’t lie. This week, I ran some numbers on the performance of some of the […]
How Markets around the World are Reacting to the Bull Market
Under a Blood-Red Friday Sky Markets began the week with a sense of optimism about the potential for strong bank earnings and a continuation of upside in emerging markets such as China. Though bank earnings were on the whole solid, and while there were some bright spots for the bulls in stocks such as Netflix […]
Why the Chinese Market Will Keep Rising
Look at the Fire-Breathing China Dragon! Stocks in China are hot, and I mean smoking hot, with HUGE gains during the past month. The table below shows just how powerful the upside has been in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pegged to the various segments of the Chinese equity market. From small caps to financials to technology to […]
These Were the Best-Performing ETFs of Q1 2015
End of Q1, So What Should You Do? The first quarter of 2015 is in the books, and that means it’s time to do something that you should be doing every quarter at the very least. That something is taking a critical look at your portfolio to make sure it’s serving your goals. Are you […]
Jim Woods is a 30-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor.
His books include co-authoring, “Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution,” and “The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse.” He’s also ghostwritten many books and articles, as well as edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Read more about Jim Woods.
