A thought occurred to me the other day as I was looking at the filings page on the IndexUniverse weekly ETF Watch. It might be interesting to create a portfolio from some of the funds that are in registration. To be clear these funds do no exist (yet) and many of the filings are so old that it is quite clear to me that, assuming they are still active filings, some of the funds will never list but I'd very probably be a buyer of the WisdomTree Chilean Peso ETF if it ever listed. For purposes of this post I won't speculate on the likelihood that any filing will become a fund.

Traders are reacting to this morning’s adjusted GDP report which shows slower growth than originally reported…

Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced, rose at an annualized seasonally adjusted rate of 1.6% from April to June, the Commerce Department said Friday…

Do investors view industrial metal price changes differently during good times and bad times? In the August 2010 draft of their paper entitled “Return Predictability When News Means Different Things in Different Times”, Ben Jacobsen, Ben Marshall and Nuttawat Visaltanachoti explore how the power of aluminum, copper, lead, nickel and zinc price changes to predict stock returns differs between economic expansions and contractions.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
In the time of the ancient Babylonians – long before the periodic table – there were seven sacred metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and mercury.
In Roman and Greek Mythology, the First Age was called Golden, the Second Age Silver. Apollo, the god of truth and light, and teacher of medicine, carried a silver bow.
The hieroglyph of Isis (Egyptian moon goddess) is a crescent and images of her are usually reproduced with her standing on the Crescent.

Stock futures rise after Wal-Mart results-
"Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 51 points to 10,324 and S&P 500 futures added 7 points to 1,084.10. Nasdaq 100 futures gained 9.50 points to 1,829.50, after strong earnings reports from retailing giants Wal-Mart and Home Depot and as Potash Corp. announced it had rejected a $38.6 billion takeover bid from BHP Billiton."