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Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Wednesday, shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) were yielding above the 2% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.84), with the stock changing hands as low as $91.15 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market's total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purchased shares[...] read »
It doesn't matter that the big emerging markets like Brazil and China are in better fiscal shape than all of Europe. It doesn't matter that long term growth trends favor Asia, or that high volume names like oil and gas company Petrobras (PBR) is trading at 2008 multiples and sitting on some of the biggest oil finds on the planet. The European sovereign debt crisis has the emerging markets in a Cobra Clutch. The bell has rung. It's a count out. This match is over for 2011. read »
(Kitco News) - Comex December gold futures prices ended the U.S. day session modestly lower Wednesday. It was a “risk-off” day in the market place Wednesday as European and U.S. stock markets sold off sharply amid an escalation in the European Union sovereign debt crisis. Despite being a safe-haven asset, the gold market felt selling pressure from a sharply higher U.S. dollar index and generally weaker commodity sector Wednesday. Some profit-taking pressure from recent solid price gains[...] read »
(Kitco News) - Financial and commodity markets are so squarely focused on Europe’s sovereign debt problems that they have largely ignored news that came out Tuesday regarding Iran’s nuclear program. read »
(Kitco News) - Pan American Silver Corp. (Nasdaq: PAAS; TSX: PAA) officials said Wednesday that they anticipate work on a feasibility study for its major Navidad project in Argentina will be completed by the end of the year. read »
Two of the three stocks added to our large/mid cap Most Dangerous stocks list for November are from the energy sector. read »
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (AMEX: XRT) where we have detected an approximate $147.4 million dollar outflow -- that's a 19.9% decrease week over week (from 13,850,113 to 11,100,113). Among the largest underlying components of XRT, in trading today Sears Holdings Corp (NASD: SHLD) is down about 3.6%, Aeropostale Inc (NYSE: ARO) is off about 3.8%, and Charming Shoppes, Inc[...] read »
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the PowerShares QQQ (NASD: QQQ) where we have detected an approximate $456.6 million dollar inflow -- that's a 1.8% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 438,600,000 to 446,350,000). Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today Amazon.com Inc. (NASD: AMZN) is down about 2.2%, Comcast Corp (NASD: CMCSA) is off about 3.9%, and DirecTV (NASD:[...] read »
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR Gold Shares (AMEX: GLD) where we have detected an approximate $1.2 billion dollar inflow -- that's a 1.7% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 410,800,000 to 417,600,000). read »