We finally got a break in gold prices on Tuesday. And now there’s plenty of punditry explaining why. British PM Theresa May was named a culprit by many observers for talking down sterling (read: talking up the Yankee dollar) as she laid out a Bre...
(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest provider of exchange-traded funds, is cutting prices across its core ETFs in anticipation of a new U.S. rule that may prompt more investors to pour into passive funds...
An exchange-traded fund focused on Mexico has become a weather vane for Republican Donald Trump's chances winning the U.S. presidential election in November, investors said.
In this stubbornly low interest rate environment, traditional fixed income instruments have largely failed to provide investors with the income they desire from their portfolios.
No doubt about it, it’s been a great year for gold. Basis the London morning fix, bullion’s climbed more than 25 percent to date. It’s been an even better year for gold mining stocks. The VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE Arca: GDX), a 52-stoc...
(Bloomberg View) -- It’s time to ask a scary question: How much of the financial industry will soon be obsolete?
There are many examples of technologies that have been replaced by something newer and better -- film replaced by digital cameras...
A twice-yearly pall has settled over mutual fund managers in the wake of the latest SPIVA Scorecard’s release. For the past 14 years, the S&P Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard, now published by S&P Dow Jones Indices, has measured the performa...
(Bloomberg) -- CBOE Holdings Inc.’s $3.2 billion deal to acquire Bats Global Markets Inc. is some of the strongest evidence yet of exchange-traded funds’ growing importance on Wall Street...
Over the past few years, the popularity of TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Talks has mushroomed. The talks, in case you haven’t seen any, are a series of concise “big idea” presentations made by scientists, artists, educators and other...
