Among the so-called commodity currencies only one has a place at the G-7 table—Canada. And today, Canada's central bank served up the group's first rate increase since the financial crisis began in 2008. As interest rate moves go, it was middling—only 25 basis points (0.25 percent), but with the overnight rate at just a quarter-point, rates have effectively doubled.

The director of research at HAHN Investment shares his thoughts on what to look for in a commodity ETF.

The latest estimate by the U.S. Department of Commerce pegs annualized real gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. GDP measures the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States. The estimate is a downward revision of the 5.9 percent estimate issued last month, but still represents a sizable jump from the third quarter's 2.2 percent annualized growth rate.

I'm so disappointed in Colin McCabe. You remember McCabe, don't you? He's the supposed editor of the ubiquitous Elite Stock Report we wrote about in "A Golden Future In Your Mailbox."

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