Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2009) Battle-weary investors remained skeptical of a banking quick fix and endured more grim economic fodder during the past week, causing US stocks to hit their lowest level since 1997. After the worst January (-8.8%) on reco...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (February 16 – 22, 2009) A perfect storm of a deepening global recession and banking woes last week battered equities and supported the safe havens of the US dollar, government bonds and gold bullion. A dismal corporate earnings outlook, fears...

Trend: Leveraged and inverse ETFs do not perform as expected due to tax distributions and tracking error.  Jim Cramer on CNBC has been ranting about the problems effects of the double short financial ETF SKF. Simon Maierhofer at ETF Guide describes the illogical returns of leveraged and inverse ETF...