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Few U.S. chief executive officers are as hot as Elon Musk these days. Musk is the CEO of not one, but two of the highest flying publicly traded companies in the U.S. SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), the maker of solar energy systems for business and residential customers, has seen its shares more than...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new status as a dividend stock is, no pun intended, bearing fruit. At least at the new ETF level. The WisdomTree U.S. Dividend Growth Fund (NASDAQ: DGRW), which debuted today, features the iPad maker as its largest holding with a weight of 4.71 percent. Aside from...

The National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships (NAPTP) is holding its investor conference this week. And there is more to cheer about this year, now that master limited partnerships (MLPs) are up 22.6 percent so far this year. MLPs underperformed the broader markets last year. Among the...

It has been said the S&P 500's ascent to what feels like a string of never ending new highs has been a rally short on risk-taking and long on low beta fare. At the sector level, and it is sectors that lead equity markets not vice versa, there are signs risk is coming back into style....

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) looks terrible. The First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index Fund (NYSE: FCG) does not. Keep an eye on the Guggenheim Timber ETF (NYSE: CUT). Emerging markets plays of the day: iShares MSCI...

Few stocks have attracted more news over the last six months than nutritional supplement maker Herbalife (NYSE: HLF). Even casual market observers are aware of the circumstances surrounding the the initial bout of extreme volatility in the name back in December 2012. The shares went into free-...

Natural gas futures are volatile. That much is widely known and that volatility explains the allure of an ETF such as the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE: UNG) for active, short-term traders. With natural gas futures soaring recently and getting another lift Tuesday after the U.S. National Weather...

In the wake of the first-quarter earnings season, analysts at Sterne Agee have issued a research report on the energy and industrials sectors. Their energy stock recommendations include CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX), Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN) and Whiting Petroleum (NYSE: WLL). Below is a...

Today's low interest rate environment has sent investors scurrying for yield across myriad asset classes. Whether it is with traditional dividend stocks, multi-asset products or bank loan and junk bond ETFs, investors have an increasing array of choices with which to generate income....

Monday was a big day for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). First, it announced that it was buying social blogging platform, Tumblr for $1.1 billion in an all cash deal. Investors would agree that a billion dollar acquisition is plenty of news for one day but Yahoo! had more to announce. Yahoo CEO...