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• Portfolio Fix: Rising Metals Prices Bring New Shine to Mining ETFs

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  April 9, 2011

  Gold and copper producers are likely to post strong earnings-per-share gains thanks to higher metals prices.

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  Portfolio Fix: Using Mining ETFs as a Commodity Play

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  March 14, 2011

  The rise in metals prices is now flowing through to earnings for metals producers.

• Total Return Leaders: Balanced Performance

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  January 1, 2011

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  Top Five Portfolio News Stories of 2010: AdvisorOne

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  December 30, 2010

  Why the “new normal” debate, bond market rout, flash crash, European debt crisis and metals mania garnered advisors' attention

• ETF Advisor: Dueling Over Expenses

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  April 6, 2010

  By the end of 2010, there's a good chance that U.S.-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs), will have amassed $1 trillion in assets

• Launching Commodities and More

  By Staff Writer  |  January 1, 2010

  CRBA is benchmarked to the Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB In-The-Ground Global Agriculture Equity Index, which selects from a global universe of publicly traded companies engaged in...

• The ETF Advisor: Basic Materials ETFs

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  December 1, 2009

  Every day, investors are bombarded with economic data offering clues to future market movements. As the U.S. and global economies begin to emerge from recession,...

• A New ETF Playbook

  By Staff Writer  |  February 1, 2009

  What will become of stocks over the course of 2009? And how about the faltering U.S. economy? Is the housing market done correcting? Where are...

• Investors steel themselves for drop in commodity

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2009

  Steel could face a fall in production in 2009, the Financial Times reports. The sector could see a drop of at least 10 percent, the...

• Wachovia Restructures, Taps Robert Steel as CEO/President

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2008

  Wachovia has reported a net loss in the second quarter of $8.9 billion, including a $6.1 billion non-cash goodwill impairment charge in commercial-related sub-segments. Excluding...