Today released numbers show good shape for European economies. Germany more than doubled estimations and grew 1.5% in first three months of 2008 (quarter on quarter). Non-seasonally (quarterly basis) GDP grew 1,8%.Another surprise is coming ... (more)

Credit market turmoils spread all over. I list major 4 major banking cases occurred in Europe due to subprime meltdown.The largest Swiss bank UBS (UBS) writedowns almost 33 bln CHF in last 2 quarters. Shareholders ... (more)

Recently I posted how international ETF stand in relation P/E to GDP (link to post). The most undervalued seemed to be emerging markets of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China).World markets had turned to negative on ... (more)

MondayEconomic: Treasury Budget ($157.5B)Earnings: CryptoLogic (CRYP), Holly (HOC), Hecla (HL), JA Solar (JASO), MBIA (MBI), Sprint (S), XM Satellite (XMSR), Clearwire (CLWR), Fluor (FLR), LDK Solar (LDK), Time Warner Tcom (TWTC), McDermott (MDR), Nuance (NUAN)TuesdayEconomic: ... (more)

ETF and ETN are becoming more and more popular products for many investors. Sometimes it is used for investing before "real" stock trading. Both offer many advantages compare to mutual funds. Exchange traded funds or ... (more)

ETF market is booming. Let's have a look which ETF are currently the biggest in terms of assets value. SPY is still leading and has also biggest nominal increase year on year basis. Among top ... (more)

Exchange traded funds (ETF) and Exchange traded notes (ETN) are derivatives underlying investment assets (stocks, indexes, commodities etc.). Issuer are big investment banks.ETF represents in fact ownership for underlying assets. Therefore especially big institutional holders ... (more)

I've already compared those 2 major finance portals but in reference to stocks screening. You can see my post here. Do you prefer Google or Yahoo? Let me point out some pros and cons.Initial pageYahoo ... (