Thursday 12/23/2010 10:15:07 EST - Standard & Poor's
As 2010 draws to a close, it is hard to resist the temptation to size up the year's exchange traded fund (ETF) winners and losers, and perhaps to draw some conclusions about what happened that can serve to guide us in the year to come.
Judging from the year's best and worst performing ETFs, 2010 was the year of commodity ETFs. Barring a major market realignment in the last two weeks of the year, there can be little question that exchange traded funds owning silver will take the checke...
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