The yield curve is something that analysts and professionals will track but is rarely talked about by smaller individual traders. This is a very important topic right now as the market is hearing echoes of the credit crisis of July 2007. There are some important differences between now and then and some of these differences are related to the yield curve and what it is telling us about investor sentiment. curve

The yield curve is a simple comparison of short term, mid term and long...

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S. Wade Hansen

Small-cap stocks are the place to be right now as the stock market passes the one-year anniversary of the sub-prime meltdown and the beginning of the credit crisis. According to relative strength measurements during the past month, if you are looking for the best place to weather the storm in the U.S. stock market right now, small-cap value stocks---as represented by the iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index Fund (IJS)---and small-cap growth stocks---as represented...

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