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ETF News Summary 2,2011

 

ETF "Stripping" - The Latest Way to Disguise Insider Trading?

...ETF Stripping".   Considering the methodology involved you would need to have a super good prime broker (hello vampire squid) to pull this off, since you'd need to borrow short a whole lot of inventory but essentially here is the game.  If you want to hide the fact you have inside information on an advantage of information (i.e. )...from Fund My Mutual Fund - Feb 10, 2011 

 

The latest monthly news summary on ETFs can be found here.

Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 15:05

ChinaDailyNews,Week 6,2011

 

China CPI Comes At 4.9%, Below Consensus Of 5.4%, In Line With Zero Hedge "Pervasive Data Manipulation" Expectations...China’s inflation was less than economists estimated in January after the statistics bureau cut the weighting of food in the consumer-price index.Consumer prices rose 4.9 percent last month from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said in a statement on its website today. That compared with a 4.6 percent gain in December

Sina Weibo Adds Voicemail Weibos and Direct Video Uploads...networks in China and hands-down the most innovative. Moreover, the new innovations on the Weibo are far outpacing those on its western counterpart, Twitter. Multimedia weibos allows users to do two things that Twitter’s simple 140 characters tweets can’t offer: Voicemail Weibo (语音微博) – users can dial a service number on their mobile phones

RISKS WITHIN CHINA’S BANKING SYSTEM ARE BUILDING Slowly but surely we are beginning to see signs of systemic irregularities and weakness in the Chinese economy. Kristine Li, senior director of credit strategy, Asia Pacific at RBS says the banking system is beginning to resemble the Japanese

Mainland power use last month up on December, report shows...Corp of China may have increased by an average of 9.4 per cent last month from a year earlier, up from a nationwide 5.4 per cent rise in December, an industry report showed yesterday.

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Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 12:15

Inflation

Bernanke must work the numbers the same way the Chinese do .

Online figures are telling a different story.

 

Country: USA

 

DAILY ONLINE PRICE INDEX

 

 
 
 

Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 11:20

ChinaDailyNews,Week 4,2011

 Sohu.com Says Wireless Revenues Fell While Search Revenues Grew In ChinaChinese online media company Sohu.com Inc. reported its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, and said that while wireless revenues fell, online game and search engine revenues increased. The company's total revenues were USD173.2 million, up 27% year-over-year and 6% quarter-over-quarter. Brand...rom ChinaTechNews.com  Chinese Companies Favour Shanghai IPOs, Survey Finds...companies in China are likely to prefer a share sale in the domestic market in coming years, a recent survey has found. This will increase the proportion of Chinese initial public offerings in the domestic market.   from PEdaily Latest News The 5 Black Swans That Keep Dylan Grice Up At Night... And How To Hedge Against Them All...China?s economic model is biased towards misallocating resourcesevery country which has industrialized has experienced nasty bumps on the wayChina and the US are in the early stages of an arms racedemographic trends suggest more conflict in the oil rich regions of the worldbottlenecks are developing in key commodity marketsthe only thing central...from zero hedge   The China domino...similarity with China: Food inflation of a breadth and severity that few in the market appreciate. China’s food inflation is different from its other inflations, notably real estate and wages. It is more dangerous. For as much as there have been spasmodic protests around the price and availability of homes and pay, and as much as there has been ...from macrobusiness.com.au -  To read more articles please click here 

Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 19:05

African and Middle Eastern ETF´s

Too late to fasten seat belts

Source charts Finviz

Submitted by Administrator on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 23:51

Egypt the big wakeup call

Finally the Arab world is on the move.

Watch history in front of your eyes.

Submitted by Administrator on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 14:47

US IPO activity LinkedIn

After Demand Media ($ DMD) and Nielsen ($ NLSN) comes  LINKEDIN. 

Some background information

LinkedIn Files To Go Public, Shines Spotlight On Its Finances

 

...LinkedIn Corp. filed to go public – the first of several high-profile social media companies expected to take the plunge. from WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch 

 

Write-Offs: 01.27.11

...LinkedIn Files For IPO, Seeking $175 Million [Bloomberg] $$$ Charlie Sheen rushed to hospital after bash with 5 women [NYP] $$$ Bill Clinton: 6 Years Before US Jobs Come Back [CNBC] $$$ Soros Says Higher Commodity Prices Likely to Last for a `Couple of Years‘ [Bloomberg] $$$ The ‘Working Rich‘ [Reuters] $$$ John Carney: How The Government Destro... from DealBreaker.com 

 

Where LinkedIn's ~$200 Million Revenues Come From

...LinkedIn revenues were $161 million through the first 9 months of 2010. Figure the last quarter wasn't a disaster and that's about $200 million per year. Where does all that money come from? Ads, tools for recruiters, and subscriptions. In September 2010,LinkedIn generated… 45% of its revenues, or $28 million from recruiting 29%, or $18 mil... from SAI 

 

LinkedIn files

...on the LinkedIn blog: LinkedIn Corporation announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. A portion of the shares wil... from FT Alphaville 

 

LinkedIn’s Largest Shareholders And How Much They Own

...LinkedIn’s S-1 filing was released today, and the filing includes a wealth of information that we’ve never seen before. This includes sales, profit, revenue breakdown and more. One interesting data point shared in the filing is LinkedIn’s largest shareholders and how much each shareholder owns. Out of the 5 percent stockholders, the company’s la... from TechCrunch 

 

LinkedIn IPO: What The Analysts Are Saying

...social network LinkedIn filed to go public on the stock market today and is expected to be just one of a number of initial public offerings by tech companies this year. In a survey we ran on ReadWriteWeb earlier this month, 66.04% of respondents said they would consider buying stock in LinkedIn - but what have the professional analysts got to sa... from ReadWriteWeb 

The updated 2011 US IPO list is here.

Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 09:55

Chinese IPO´s.Not always a way to quick riches

China Xiniya

Shengkai InnovationsMecox LaneCountry Style Cooking

Not all Chinese ADRs brought public last year did well.

Chartsource:Finviz

Submitted by Administrator on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 17:58

ChinaDailyNews,Week 3,2011

 

Thomas Friedman On China And America

...differences between China and the US. Note: absolutely nothing of significance will be learned in this presentation, which is merely a rehash of stale, faulty and thoroughly discredited assumptions yet it is a good starting point to learn about all that is flawed in the prevailing view of how the two countries are supposed to coexist in the futu... from zero hedge - Jan 22, 2011

 

China stock earnings calendar, Jan. 24-28

...Chinavestor) The following Chinese companies are going to report financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2011 starting January 24, Monday. The week is heavy for U.S. stocks, such as Yahoo and Microsoft, but is light for Chinese ADRs. Most Chinese companies will report in February and March.

from Chinavestor - Jan 22, 2011

 

Connecting the Dots Between China’s Falling Consumption Level and Its Banking Crisis

...features of China’s continuing growth as an economic power is its extreme (as in unprecedented in the modern era) dependence on exports and investments as drivers of growth. Even more troubling is that as expansion continues, consumption keeps falling as a percentage of GDP. As countries become more affluent, consumption tends to rise in relati... from Naked Capitalism - Jan 22, 2011

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Submitted by Administrator on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 17:20

Too big to fail becomes even bigger

The US financial system of the future:3 institutions with 80% market share??

 

In the latest available data (Q3 of 2010), the big 6 had assets worth 64 percent of GDP. This is up from before the crisis – assets in the big six at the end of 2006 were only about 55 percent of GDP. And this is up massively from 1995, when these same banks (some of which had different names back then) were only 17 percent of GDP. http://baselinescenario.com/2011/01/09/the-bill-daley-problem/

Submitted by Administrator on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 21:59

20 minutes with former FED chairman Alain Greenspan

Submitted by Administrator on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 18:59

Natural gas had a nice move

Sandridge slowing recovering parts of the big losses of the past few years

One of the best performers in the group over the past few months.

Unfortunately for many long term holders this stock was above 30

a few months after the IPO.

Chartsource:Finviz

Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 10:45

Updated ETF master list

Quite a few additions and a better logical layout.

The short list is here and the detailed one at the usual place under ETF.

Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 21:44

Green pastures

Everything is at the right place

 

Nomads in Tashkorgan Valley: Picture of the Week

Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 14:47

The rise of Chongqing out of nowhere

Took this article off. After only 2 years many links are not working anymore  with annoying subscription popups.There is so much else to read and look at.Good bye FP. 

 

Submitted by Franz on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 14:21

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