If you thought those double and triple leveraged ETFs were pushing the envelope, how about an ETF that provides a 100-times leveraged play on the technology-heavy Nasdaq exchange? Let me warn you upfront that the following concerns an Onion-style...

There's an interesting article by investment author Dan Solin at Huffington Post that takes a shot at the prognosticating abilities of Professor Jeremy Siegel, the author and academic whose "Stocks for the Long Run" thesis probably has done more to...

As one might expect, Monday's announcement by Invesco Trimark of its new PowerShares Funds -- a kind of hybrid mutual fund that has ETFs wrapped inside them -- has attracted criticism from the traditional ETF industry. On the original blog entry, I...

Retirement savings nudges out home ownership as a financial priority (50% to 47%), according to a poll of 1,231 conducted by Ipsos Reid for RBC. Third at 41% is making regular payments to reduce or eliminate debt. As the chart shows,  saving for a...

The Twitter micro-blogging service recently rolled out a new feature called Lists, which makes it a lot more useful in organizing the veritable Niagara Falls of information that pours through the site every moment of the day. Twitter quietly...