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A day after a highly anticipated (and fretted about) Greek debt deal was announced, which briefly pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 13,000, the U.S. stock market recorded modest losses. The Dow shed 27 points and closed at just above 12,938. The widely watched blue-chip index traded in a...

The boo-birds, naysayers and haters just keep on bashing exchange-traded products. It's almost becoming a national past time on par with baseball, the Super Bowl and Fourth of July barbecues. Latest up on the ETF hit parade is the notion that if an investor is somehow fortunate enough to choose...

Sony has designed a beautiful handheld. It's too bad no one is going to play it. Ten years ago, I would have played it. In fact, I'd be playing with a PlayStation Vita right now. I wouldn't have cared about all of the red flags that warned me not to buy it. I would have spent $250 on a Wi-Fi model...

A while back, we scoured the universe of exchange traded funds offering exposure to Latin America to find some unheralded but potentially lucrative plays. That list had a couple of Brazil-heavy funds and a couple of ex-Brazil plays. All experienced their share of struggles last year and all have...

The Obama administration has proposed an overhaul to the U.S. corporate tax code which would lower the maximum rate paid by corporations while also eliminating a myriad of loopholes used to lower individual businesses' tax bills. The plan would lower the top income-tax rate for corporations from 35...

The App Store is about to get a lot more fun. Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) heavily anticipated (and perpetually rumored) TV debut is largely believed to be a device that will change the way we look at television. It will be about content, first and foremost, analysts say. Picture quality will be great...

Community banks may be beginning to offer better returns than their “too big to fail” competitors as they focus on more conservative investment strategies and more money for loans becomes available. Community bank performance is more closely tied to how the community is recovering than larger banks...

It may not be a wonderful Wednesday for equities and some commodities, but oil just keeps on chugging higher. As of this writing, the United States Brent Oil Fund (NYSE: BNO) is up 1.3%, trading just pennies below a new 52-week high that was touched earlier in the session and looks poised to...

I have previously commented on a growing hunger in the American socio-political consciousness for the emergence of new political parties. On Feb. 12, 2012, I noted that "the current nebulousness of political ideology only adds confusion to the political process and makes economic issues that much...

In our last article, we asked if the yen is done strengthening and if it will continue to weaken. Since then, the market has answered the question quite clearly. The yen has successfully bounced from the 75.9 level and has now surged past the 79.5 level without any hint of pullback. When a...