Market Sectors

Cash

Holding your money in liquid form means keeping it in cash or investments that are converted easily to cash. More cash or cash accounts means you have a high level of financial liquidity, which has advantages and disadvantages. Typically, you need enough cash assets to cover your necessary expenses and some that are unexpected. Another

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Gold

Performance Overview The investment seeks to replicate the performance, net of expenses, of the price of gold bullion. The trust holds gold, and is expected to issue baskets in exchange for deposits of gold, and to distribute gold in connection with redemption of baskets. The gold held by the trust will only be sold on

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Real Estate

Real Estate Sector (VNQ) Vanguard ETF The investment seeks to provide a high level of income and moderate long-term capital appreciation by tracking the performance of a benchmark index that measures the performance of publicly traded equity REITs. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US REIT

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Utilities

Key Drivers of the Utilities Sector Stock prices for companies in the utilities sector are affected by supply and demand, operating costs, government regulation, environmental factors, liabilities for environmental damage and general civil liabilities, and rate caps or rate changes. Although rate changes of a utility usually fluctuate in approximate correlation with financing costs due

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