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Tax-Free Bond Exchange Traded Funds: The Ultimate Capture-the-Dividend Play

TradersLog — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:24:52 +0000

There is one event and one event only that investors know will happen and for how much on Wall Street; and that is the payment of a dividend. The dividend payment, amount and date are announced well in advance.

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Dividend ETFs: Income Option For Troubled Times

TradersLog — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:05:39 +0000

John D. Rockefeller once had this to say about happiness. “Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends come in.”

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Preferred Customer: ETF Makes Elite Stocks Open For Everyone

TradersLog — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:44:50 +0000

If you’re rich enough – or otherwise have access to your local private country club’s locker room – sooner or later you’ll hear a pair of wealthy golfers discussing their preferred stock holdings.

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Have ETF, Will Travel: Emerging Markets a Natural For Global Investing

TradersLog — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:01:08 +0000

According to a recent study by Black Rock International, at the end of February 2011, the global ETF industry had 2,557 ETFs with 5,802 listings and assets of $1.3 trillion (in U.S. dollars) from 140 providers on 48 exchanges around the world.

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Gold ETF’s Shine In Inflationary Times

TradersLog — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:34:25 +0000

What to make of the current inflationary economic climate? To hear a government economist tell it, it’s basically “nothing to worry folks. Nothing to see here.”

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Inflation Fighting Investment? Try Currency ETF’s

TradersLog — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:31:03 +0000

Former President Ronald Reagan once defined inflation as “violent as a mugger, as frightening as a mugger, and as deadly as a hit man.”

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