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PMI Composite FLASH Markit’s Composite Purchasing Managers Index has continued to recover, rising to 46.8 in mid-June from 37.0 in May. This is well off the low of 27 set in April. While it still shows the economy is in contraction (below 50.0), there is clearly a slowdown in the ra...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission modifies some rules for business development companies and other closed-end funds, making them more similar to those followed by operating companies. More news on: Amplify High Income ETF, Invesco CEF Income Composite Portfolio ETF, Cohen&S...

This article is a small extract out of a blog post that we've published on March 29 (written the day before). We haven't changed anything to the original post, because frankly there is no need to. Nonetheless, we did add a few new paragraphs to expand on the specific topic which is the fo...

We just experienced one of the sharpest and fastest drops in market values ever recorded. At the time of this writing… The S&P 500 ( SPY ) is down 29%. The Nasdaq (QQQ) is down 31%. The Dow (DIA) is down 32%. Data by YCharts It took years for these indexes to generate...

Normally I wait until after the end of the quarter to report on our Income Factory's performance, but I know that every day counts for readers making decisions about their own portfolios who want as many viewpoints as possible. And besides, waiting a few more days until the end of the month wo...

BDC Stock Price Declines Business Development Companies ("BDCs") got hammered this month along with other higher-yield credit-related investments for many of the reasons discussed below. It is important for investors to understand that BDCs are mostly retail-owned and many of the investo...

Zamansky LLC is investigating UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBS), the broker-dealer, over possible sale practice violations which resulted in losses to investors in ETRACs (Symbols: HDLV, SMHD, DVHL, CEFL, CEFZ, BDCL, LBDC, MORL, MRRL, LRET, MLPQ, HOML, MLPZ, LMLP and WTID). UBS ETRACs are exc...

Focus of Article: The focus of PART 1 of this article is to analyze Ares Capital Corp.'s (ARCC) recent results and compare a handful of the company's metrics to fourteen business development company ("BDC") peers. This analysis will show past and current data with supporting documentation wi...

Picking Up The Pieces After the mREIT and ETRACs Catastrophe Some have inquired as to how my 15%+ current yield constrained portfolio has done in the recent market collapse. The UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( MORL ) and, later, UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged Mo...

Gainers:  VS 2X VIX Short Term (NASDAQ: TVIX )  +81.1% . More news on: VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN, Direxion Daily Real Estate Bear 3x Shares ETF, Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3x Shares ETF, News on ETFs, Stocks on the move, Read more ...