We examine whether the information contained in social media (Twitter, Facebook, and Google blogs) and web search intensity (Google) influences financial markets. Using a multivariate system and focussing on Eurozone�s peripheral countries, the GIIPS (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) as well as two of Eurozone�s core countries (France and the Nethelands), we show that soc…

Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund As a psychologist, I find this book and the ETF Digest web site to do an excellent job of helping us separate our emotional reactions to the market from our more cognitive ones. As humans, we always emotionally want to gain more resources, but are constantly afraid we are about to lose everything. Dave Fry helps to balance these two points of view so we can move f…