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Three words seem to sum up Ron Paul's perspective when it comes to investing: gold, gold, and gold.Marketplace featured a story Thursday on Ron Paul's investment strategy of buying gold. Marketplace's Bob Moon interviewed Jason Zweig, an investing columnist from the Wall Street Journal. On the...

Downtrodden Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) reports earnings after the bell today and analysts are expecting a profit of $1.19 a share on revenue of $5.27 billion from the BlackBerry maker. The estimates for the current quarter are $1.18 EPS on $5.12 billion in sales. Despite RIM's reputation...

Morgan Stanley adjusted its emerging markets portfolio today, boosting exposure to the iShares MSCI Philippines Invstable Market Index Fund (NYSE: EPHE), citing the Philippines' account surplus. EPHE moved from #11 to #5 among emerging markets based on the country's improving earnings as well as...

Those not living in a cave know that 2011 has been a brutal year for emerging markets equities and the associated ETFs. Europe's sovereign debt disaster is one culprit to be sure, but the problems don't end there. Inflation has been the four-letter troubling markets from Sao Paolo to Shanghai....

Most avid market followers know that the risk on trade has been off for a while now, but with news today that global central banks are looking to boost liquidity in international financial markets, better days may be on the horizon for commodities and we're not just talking gold and oil....

Nokia-Siemens, the networking joint venture of Finnish cell phone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and German industrial conglomerate Siemens (NYSE: SI), said today it will slash 17,000 jobs, or 28% of its workforce, to cut costs. The cuts are expected to save the venture $1.3 billion and by completed by...

Enterprise software maker Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) reported a third-quarter loss of $3.76 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $21 million, or 15 cents a share, after the bell today. On an adjusted basis, Salesforce.com earned 34 cents topping the 31 cents Wall...

If you missed out on some of the hot social media IPOs, don't fret because there's an exchange-traded product headed your way that might be worth a look. The Global X Social Media ETF will debut on Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “SOCL.” The new ETF will hold a basket of 25...

To be blunt, 2011 has not been kind to the Global X Uraniu ETF (NYSE: URA), which made its debut late last year. The natural disasters that struck Japan in March helped force the ETF down more than 60% year-to-date, but there is a curious phenomenon going on with one of 2011's most controversial...

To answer the question, it's "peliculas", but it could also be Netlfix (NASDAQ: NFLX). Screendaily is reporting that the online movie giant is going to potentially expand into Spain, a country rife with piracy. The company, led by Reed Hastings, is supposedly going to enter the country next year...