Short The Euro With These Inverse Currency ETFs
While the Eurozone appears to be back on track after a two-year debt crisis, the recent rate cut by the European Central Bank (ECB) has led to questions about the common currency. Thanks to the steep...
View ArticleWhat A Worldwide Recession Means For Currencies: ProShares UltraShort Euro,...
Mike Burnick: Global stocks continue to perform exceptionally well in 2013 … but you would never know it from the sad state of global economic growth. Recent data from the Organization for Economic...
View ArticleHow To Get Rich Off The Eurozone Recession: ProShares UltraShort Euro, Market...
George Leong: Traders appear to have forgotten the massive economic mess happening across the Atlantic in the eurozone. Remember Greece? The European debt crisis took Greece down with two separate...
View ArticleProShares Launches Inverse Euro ETF (EUFX, EUO, DRR)
Eric Dutram: ProShares, a leader in inverse and leveraged ETFs, has launched its latest product in the currency space, targeting the in focus euro. The new fund, the ProShares Short Euro ETF...
View ArticleEurope: Playing A Euro Zone Double-Dip With These ETFs (EUO, EPV, EWP, DPK,...
Daniela Pylypczak: To say the least, the world economy has had a bumpy ride since the onslaught of the unprecedented financial crisis that rocked the world in 2008. Despite several glimmers of hope in...
View ArticleThe Dollar – Up, Up and Away (UUP, DRR)
At the end of last week, the U.S. dollar gained against the euro due to the ever-present worries that EU leaders won’t get their act together soon enough to fix their debt crisis. Concern in the market...
View ArticleBe Cautious of EU Optimism (DRR, UUP)
Remember when the market had a massive gain this summer because there was the thought of a Grand Compromise on the U.S. debt problem between President Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner?...
View ArticleHow to Play Uncertainties in the Eurozone (UUP, DRR)
There seemed to be a little hope mingling in the markets at the end of last week. Global equities rose for a fourth straight day on Friday. The Nasdaq had just finished posting its biggest weekly...
View ArticleWhy Things Are Looking Up for the Dollar (UUP, DRR)
On July 28, I wrote a column recommending Market Vectors Double Short Euro ETN (NYSE:DRR) as a way to take advantage of growing problems in the Eurozone. Since then, that ETF has jumped 7 percent. I...
View ArticleEuro: How To Play Into The European Disunion (DRR, EUO)
Kevin Kerr: The massive differences between the various nations in the European Union have always been apparent. But now as the euro zone is literally crumbling in front of us, the depth of that...
View ArticleHow to Play Rising Dollar, Falling Treasury Yields
You may have never thought it possible, but right now, more than any time in the past few years, it is not unthinkable to be bullish in the morning, bearish after lunch, and neutral into the close, all...
View ArticleStability in the European Union? Not Even Close (DRR)
Last week, Moody’s stated that Greece’s 2011 bailout will weaken Europe’s strongest countries’ credit ratings and result in a Greek default. The rating agency went on to say that even though the...
View ArticleHow to Play the Collapse of the Euro (DRR)
The Eurozone is a sight to behold. Economic growth is anemic. Greece is careening toward default on its sovereign debt. Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain may not be far behind. The break-up of the...
View ArticleDollar Demise: China Wants a New Global Reserve Currency Says Strategist
After endless arm-twisting, scores of gloomy forecasts, and a host of ominous threats, the Greeks have finally acted just as their many new masters instructed. Throughout this entire year-long ordeal,...
View ArticleLeveraged ETFs Up and Down The Most Year To Date (SRS, TZA, TBT, USD, UCO,...
Of the large number of leveraged and inverse ETFs out there, below we highlight the ones that are up and down the most so far in 2010. On the upside, the double long real estate ETF — URE — is up the...
View ArticleEuro’s Rally Temporary, UBS Says Expect A Decline To $1.20
UBS sees a short term rally for the Euro, although their long term look is not very rosy. Businessweek is quoting Mansoor Mohi-uddin, Singapore-based global head of currency strategy at UBS as saying,...
View ArticleCurrency ETF’s Offer Protection Against A Weak U.S. Dollar
At the beginning of the crisis the dollar rose as investors protect theirs funds by investing in safe currency. The dollar rose by 20 percent between July 2008 and March this year. But when markets...
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