To say that this is a tough market may be the understatement of the year.
Lots of areas are getting beaten to a pulp daily, the economy has sputtered, the masses have been fooled by the direction of interest rates, there is a new so-called crisis every time you turn around and, as a result, it has been oh-so easy to be in the wrong stuff at the wrong time.
Yet through it all, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 remain just one day off their all-time highs.
Somehow Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares are down on the year, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has struggled and even the S&P Biotech ETF (NYSE: XBI) is having a hard time.
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Social media positions like the Global X Social Media Index ETF (NASDAQ: SOCL) are becoming hard to look at. Even Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is even sporting some fairly serious red ink right about now.
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Then, to make matters worse, all the things that performed poorly last year seem to be doing pretty well this year.
That's right, those emerging market ETFs like iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (NYSE: EEM) would be making any investor smile right about now. Europe ETF iShares MSCI EMU Index (NYSE: EZU) is marching higher, while India ETF WisdomTree India Earnings Fund (NYSE: EPI) and Turkey ETF iShares MSCI Turkey (NYSE: TUR) are rockin'.
Real Estate ETF iShares Dow Jones Real Estate (NYSE: IYR) is movin' on up and agriculture--PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (NYSE: DBA)--is a great position these days. Lastly, those bonds that everyone was so afraid of coming into 2014 have been working nicely, as shown by iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury Bond Fund (NYSE: IEF), iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund (NYSE: AGG) and iShares IBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bd Fd (NYSE: ...
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