Last week, the US Federal Reserve announced an additional $600 billion in asset purchases to support the economy, but as discussed earlier, with the size and scope of the move already priced in, the dollar has managed to stabilize over ...

Most of the world currency markets are brimming with speculation over US Congress election results and QE2 grabbing the most attention. While the US dollar was unable to sustain its gains from the previous session Thursday morning, coming under pressure ...

The U.S. dollar ETF is sinking like a lead balloon. As investors seek higher-yielding currencies, it's bringing the Australian and Canadian dollars near parity with the greenback.. The U.S. dollar is now at a five-month low against ...

The dollar is under pressure Monday amid bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will institute monetary policy to help stimulate the economy.. A check of some currency-linked ETFs shows the WisdomTree Dreyfus Euro Fund ( EU - news - people ) is trading ...

And, given enough time, the U.S. dollar will lose value against other major currencies. For those that haven't traveled abroad since the 1990s, the weakness of the greenback often jolts like an electric eel shock. Here are year-to-date ...

A euro ETF is a kind of exchange-traded fund or ETF that’s focused on the universal currency of the European Union: A euro ETF is an additional way for investors to get involved in holding and tracking the value ...

Potential intervention of the Japanese yen has driven currency traders to another safe-haven currency: the Swiss franc ETF. The Swiss franc has appreciated to a record high against the U.S. dollar, gaining against the greenback for the sixth day ...

A currency ETF, or exchange-traded fund, is a type of financial product that combines the best parts of stock and currency investment into a single product. Unlike foreign exchange market (Forex) trading, which is the traditional and somewhat complicated way ...

For example the euro will be priced versus the U.S. dollar when quoted on the major financial websites and media outlets. The U.S. Dollar Index, which tracks the price of the greenback versus a basket of foreign currencies ...

Despite yesterday's solid gains, developed markets still have a host of issues that they must deal with before returning to pre-recession levels. While things have been gloomy across much of the globe, European markets have seen brighter outlooks in ...

The euro has enjoyed a nice ride in the last few weeks, but that has come to an end. The dollar is appreciating against the euro again, but there are other currency ETFs that may be worth a look, too ...

Currency ETFs are moving every which way these days, and it all seems to depend on how investors are feeling at the moment. Although the dollar has been seeing some renewed strength, it's falling against the Japanese yen and ...

Europe's finances haven't completely imploded, and in the last couple of weeks, the euro has gained against the dollar. Some bearish currency traders, however, are betting on leveraged-inverse currency ETFs for any shifts in the fortunes of the ...

Euro ETFs have given up their high spot after hitting an 11-week high against the U.S. dollar on bad news regarding consumer sentiment. Higher-yielding currencies, such as the euro, are taking a backseat now after data fed worries that ...

Now, you can have General Electric (NYSE:GE) and the British pound in your portfolio by holding the CurrencyShares British Pound ETF (PSE:FXB) in the same account. In Figures 1 and 2, you can see 18 months of prices ...

U.S. investors who were invested in the Canadian market over this period did much better than their stay-at-home compatriots, as the Canadian dollar's 33% appreciation versus the greenback turbocharged returns for U.S. investors. This means that $10 ...

If you think that the Swiss franc is set to rise against the U.S. dollar, you may want to purchase this ETF, while a short sell on the ETF can be placed if you think it is set to ...

After months of being in the doldrums, euro ETFs are riding high once again, surging close to 4% higher in the last week alone and is 6% higher than a month earlier. John Dessauer told MarketWatch that he's more ...

A currency ETF provides an investor the chance to invest in foreign currency without some of the complications that typically come with this type of leveraged investment. With a currency ETF, the parts are all foreign or domestic currency. So ...

The Euro ETF is an exchange traded fund, meaning that it is like a mutual fund but tradable in the intraday. One of the main benefits to trading the Euro ETF as opposed to trading the forex Euro in the ...

On July 1, 2010, most market watchers focused their attention on stock assets. In fact, foreign currencies were so strong, the US Dollar Index (DXY) dropped 1.7%; it also fell below its 50-day EMA .... its first unambiguous fall below ...

For a nice change of pace, the euro has surged to three-week highs and its best week in more than a year this week amid several successful bond auctions in Europe. Finally, Spain "promised to reduce its annual deficit to ...

The euro and related exchange traded funds have taken a beating, as investors remain worried about the European financial crisis. But Jim Rogers, famed investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, recently said that now might be a good time ...

But it turns out that there's an upside to the euro's new four-year lows against the U.S. dollar.. The euro is now hovering at around $1.1951 after slipping as low as $1.877 in trading today ...

On Friday, the euro sank to a new low against the dollar, dragging down ETFs with it. As concerns about Europe's economy continue to mount, is the euro on a path toward parity with the U.S. dollar?. As ...

Over the last month the Euro lost almost 7% (and more than double that YTD) with the primary beneficiary being the US dollar and Japanese Yen. The exchange traded funds I use to track and trade these huge FX trends ...

Highlighting the extent to which global markets are now interconnected, fiscal weakness in continental Europe has dragged down equity markets around the world in recent weeks. Despite remaining outside of the euro, the Swedish krona and the Swiss franc have ...

It seems like ages ago that the future of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency was in serious doubt, with the euro being held out as one viable replacement. This ETF seeks to deliver daily investment results ...

With all the European sovereign debt downgrades and the possibility of some countries going under, the euro and its related exchange traded funds have been sinking under the pressure. The EU could prevent Greece from defaulting on May 19 with ...

Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest recently examined the impact of 4 sovereign debt crises over the last 2 decades. How ironic it is to catch CNBC commentators debate the euro's viability. It wasn't that long ago when ...

Investors in dollar ETFs may have predicted what the International Monetary Fund just announced: that after two straight quarters of decline in the dollar's share of allocated global foreign-exchange reserves, it rose in Q4 of 2009.. For most of ...

AMZN) and Monster Worldwide (MWW) shareholders can hedge against potential incremental euro weakness via a short position in CurrencyShares Euro Trust (FXE).. We believe Amazon and Monster (both Buy-rated) face increasing risk in 2010 and 2011 from the fundamental issues ...

As a result of the Greece crisis (among other things), the euro has tanked. That left the door wide open for the Swiss franc and its related exchange traded fund to hit new records, but not everyone is rejoicing.. Amid ...

Over the last twelve months, the overwhelming majority of major world currencies gained ground against the U.S. dollar. One year ago today, though, the entire invesmtent community had been shell-shocked by the credit collapse, flocking to the greenback as ...

One year ago today, the markets hit their low. Stocks, exchange traded funds and the economy in general all look a lot different today than they did then. VT), which tracks the FTSE All-World Index, is up 77.2% since ...

The euro has fallen out of favor in recent months, weighed down by PIIG concerns, naturally benefiting the dollar. The dollar is at a crossroads, having made some decent gains in recent months (PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Bullish (NYSEArca ...

With Greece in such dire fiscal straits, the euro is faltering. Greece may try to float a small bond offering, which comes on the heels of some kind of "good news" with regard to taxation and spending, remarks Jon Weisenthal ...

Single currency ETFs or ETNs are available for Australia (FXA), Brazil (BZF), Britain (FXB, GBB), Canada (FXC), China (CNY, CYB), the Euro (FXE, ERO, EU), India (INR, ICN), Japan (FXY, JYN), Mexico (FXM), New Zealand (BNZ), Russia (XRU), South Africa ...

One of the major stories of 2010 has been turmoil in the euro zone, as crumbling public finances in Greece have stoked fears of a " Reflecting the extent to which global financial markets are now interconnected, Greece's financial mess ...

Over the past couple of years Commodity ETFs (exchange traded funds) have literally become a money game. It wasn't very long ago that commodity ETFs were made up only ...

Sentiment. . Market action remains rangebound. The S&P 500 is suffering only its third loss so far in 2012. The average is up in 15 of this year's...

I have been building on the theoretical underpinnings of portfolio optimization in the last few articles that I wrote. In my last article, I looked...

Back in February, in Chart of the Week: Flight-to-Safety ETPs, I examined the year-to-date performance of five exchange-traded products (ETPs) that...

ConAgra (CAG), Kellogg (K), Heinz (HNZ), Campbell's Soup (CPB), MarkWest Energy Partners (MWE), Tyson Foods (TSN), IntraLinks Holdings (IL), Plains...

CurrencyShares Euro Trust ETF (FXE) . . The most accurate measure for U.S. stocks recently has been the euro. In fact 85% of the time, the S&P 500...

One of the surprising results when calculating the hedging costs of a basket of ETFs tracking foreign currencies was the relatively high hedging...

Mcdonald's Free Coffee @ Canadian Money Forum. . Interesting anomaly in the Horizons U.S. Dollar Currency ETF @ Canadian Capitalist. . How to work...

Welcome to the Financial News Network Options Report.On the call side, ASML Holding is seeing just over 6 times the normal amount of calls today...

U.S. equities started the week on a positive note as domestic indexes rose modestly after news of better-than-expected personal income data left...

Wall Street managed to march higher early last week, however, domestic equities settled into range-bound trading for the remainder of the period...