Discounts and incentives mask a deeper pullback in the housing market, despite what the indexes may say.

Barclays Bank filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the right to launch their third iPath exchange-traded note. The proposed ETN tracks Goldman Sachs' Crude Oil Total Return index, which offers a futures-based exposure to the price of crude. It has the benefit of the perfect ticker symbol: OIL.

The PowerShares Dynamic Portfolio earns five stars from Morningstar, after walloping the market by 7% per annum.

It’s amazing what a little money and competition can do: Merrill Lynch enters the commodities indexing space with yet another innovative approach.

Barclays launches new “exchange-trades notes” tied to two leading commodity indexes. What’s next? According to Barclays, everything …

WisdomTree launched twenty dividend-weighted ETFs on Friday, June 17; the company promises to “change the way investors think about indexing.”

Housing prices going up??? Investors going to cash??? Wheat prices on the wise??? It’s a good time to be an information junky.

A look back at some of the biggest ETF product launches of the past two years. How did all those hot hot funds pan out?