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The article focuses on the recovery of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry in the U.S. Data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI), a national association that represents U.S. investment companies revealed that growth was distributed throughout the domestic industry with an increase in broad-based and sector equity funds, international funds, and bond funds. It notes that iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) remained the top ETF in international and emerging markets.

The article offers techniques on how to analyze the equity markets in the U.S. It suggests that human psychology is a key element to market movements because the markets involve human participation. It also argues that market selection is important for trading system success. Moreover, it highlights the most important aspect of entry strategy such as determining a stop loss in case a trader is wrong.

The article discusses the career path evolution of the author, who is writing a book about libraries and community building, to be published in 2007. She recounts the jobs that she has held throughout her career, each of which, viewed in retrospect by her, were community building types of jobs. Her jobs were mostly customer service type jobs, which allowed her to interact with the community. In graduate school, she became interested in online communities, and it is in that realm that she has had the most career fulfillment.

A calendar of events related to securities in the U.S. to be held in August 2008 including the Kinder Institute Seven Stages of Money Maturity workshop in Missouri, the Securities Operations Boot Camp seminar in New York City and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Institute at Wharton conference in Philadelphia.

The article reports that a survey conducted by State Street Global Advisors found that assets in U.S. exchange-traded mutual funds fell over 6.5 percent in January, 2008. The decline was due to the fall in stock prices during that month, not a redemption of funds by investors.