ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Do Any Sector ETFs Reliably Lead or Lag the Market? – CXO Advisory In summary, there is little evidence that any equity sector ETFs reliably lead or lag the overall U.S. stock market over the past 12.3 years. Utilities may slightly lag the broad market. (tags: ETF trading_strategy stock_market)
Germany to scrap nuclear power by 2022 – Sky News Germany on Monday became the first major industrialised power to agree an end to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out to be completed by 2022. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the decision, hammered out by her centre-right coalition overnight, … Read more
In Memoriam: Mark Haines – CNBC Veteran journalist Mark Haines, a fixture on CNBC for 22 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening. He was 65 years old. CNBC President Mark Hoffman called Haines a "building block" of the financial networks' programming. (tags: CNBC MarkHaines memorial)
GT Solar could be next solar takeover target | Reuters Solar and LED equipment manufacturer GT Solar International Inc's string of contract wins and robust share gains this year could attract suitors eager for a foothold in a relatively stable corner of the volatile solar power industry. (tags: solar GTSolar M&A)
China’s sugar rush may be ending | James Saft China is an economy addicted to investment, a sort of fun house mirror of the U.S.’s addiction to consumption, with an astounding 93 percent of GDP growth in 2009 attributable to investment. That’s a strategy that worked well for years, but China’s response to the global … Read more