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There is no shortage of punditry on how this real-estate bubble will end. Every week it seems more data pours in supporting both a hard and soft landing. Here are four ETF indicators that represent the current confusion...
Commodities are hot, but difficult to invest in directly, even for sophisticated individual investors. The ETF: DB COMMODITY IDX TRK (AMEX:DBC) offers cost effective returns of the commodity market through an exchange traded fund from Deutsche Bank. Details of the ETF are here or you can download the “Fund Card” here (PDF).
We first started covering the CME Housing Futures and Options products in April. The first day of trading was May 23rd. By May 30th we started worrying about the resounding lack of interest, and thus non-existent liquidity. The question now: Is there a future for Housing Futures?
John C. Hull: Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition)
Kenneth M. Morris: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance, Fourth Edition
McKinsey & Company Inc.: Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, Fourth Edition
Piet Sercu: International Financial Markets and the Firm (Current Issues in Finance)
James Carey: SanFrancisco(tm) Design Patterns: Blueprints for Business Software
Melanie Mitchell: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Robert Ghanea-Hercock: Applied Evolutionary Algorithms in Java
William H. Press: Numerical Recipes in C : The Art of Scientific Computing
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