The Traderszone Network

Facebook isn’t afraid to lose you as a user.

Facing an epic drought of Dust Bowl proportions, California is, in AP’s words, “sparing fewer and fewer users in the push to cut back on water usage.” Earlier this week we reported that, for the first time in decades, the state is imposing mandatory cuts for senior water rights holders.

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Small-cap ETFs flexed their muscles in the past month, shoving aside peers stuffed with large- and midcap stocks to score the biggest gains. Exchange traded funds holding bank stocks joined their health and biotech counterparts to power investors’ portfolios. But the most turbocharged performance continues to come from China. Two ETFs holding small-cap equities from the Asian nation have surged more than 110% year-to-date.

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We rarely get Long-Term Trend Model SELL signals because it requires the 50-EMA to cross below the 200-EMA; and, let’s face it, we’ve been in a bull market for years, so these negative crossovers should definitely be noted! I’ll go over the Utilities ETF (XLU) and the equal-weight Utilities ETF (RYU) charts below. But I also wanted to let you know that we saw another whipsaw…

Submitted by Gaurav Agnihotri via OilPrice.com,

In 1956, a geoscientist named M. King Hubbert formulated a theory which suggested that U.S. oil production would eventually reach a point at which the rate of oil production would stop growing. After production hit that peak, it would enter terminal decline. The resulting production profile would resemble a bell curve and the point of maximum production would be identified as Peak Oil, a point of no return.

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If the markets go south, income investors can turn to Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, and PepsiCo to buck the trend.

These three social media stocks are worth keeping an eye on.