September 8, 2009 | By Ahmad Hassam In Currency Trading | Have you ever heard of the Inverse Currency ETFs? Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a great tool for the retail traders and enable them to trade a variety of markets and sectors individually or with options. ETFs are a recent financial innovation. Overtime ETFs have become highly popular with the investing public. An ETF is made up of different component stocks, currencies, commodities or bonds. An ETF is a security. An Exchange T

Dollar Selloff Helps Commodities Stocks and commodities rallied Tuesday as investors returned from a long holiday weekend willing to add some risk to their portfolios. Bullish analyst comments and hopes for dealmaking among candy makers also helped the market. But the overall mood of the trading session so far has been subdued, with many participants reassessing their investment strategy heading into the end of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently up 19 points, or 0.2%,

By Simon van Norden Today, we're fortunate to have Simon van Norden , Professor of Finance at HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), as a guest blogger. "Once you've seen one financial market crisis...you've seen one financial market crisis." -- Attributed to Federal Reserve Board Governor Kevin Warsh by former US Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Phillip Swagel in The Financial Crisis: an Inside View , March 2009, p. 4. The financial crisis has