Is 3-D Television at Its End? + MORE

June 21 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas
says yesterday’s market retreat created stress in the
exchange-traded fund industry as investors redeemed their
shares. Bloomberg Radio’s Catherine Cowdery reports on Exchange
Traded Funds.

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The following video is from The Motley Fool’s weekly Tech Review, in which host Chris Hill talks all things tech with Fool analysts Eric Bleeker and Lyons George.
ESPN has decided to end its 3-D television operations. In this segment, our analysts discuss why 3-D television faced a chicken-and-egg problem from the start, of needing content to drive television sales, and needing consumers with televisions to build out content…

Things are always interesting when it comes to satellite radio.    

In China, the economic news is going from bad to worse.

The country's Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI), which in May dropped to 49.2, signaling contraction, has slipped further in the first three weeks of June, to 48.2. A key component of the PMI, new export orders, fell to just 44.0.

In May, imports fell to their lowest levels in roughly nine months, due in large part to growing commodities stockpiles…

Bernie Madoff recently had some interesting advice for the SEC and the small investor.
A lot of what he had to say, most of you have heard before:

The small investor is the worst informed and the most gullible.
The SEC has no teeth and its regulators are useless.
If you don’t understand an investment, don’t own it…

LinkedIn (LNKD) started as just a networking tool for young, wired professionals. Now it’s a force to be reckoned with, and investors need to take notice.
While Facebook (FB) stock is down 10% year-to-date and off more than 35% from its offer price of $38 a per share one year ago, LinkedIn has been on a tear…

Why do we pay fees on our 401(k) investments? Why are fees different for different funds? And what are we getting for the fee difference between Fund A and Fund B?  These are all great questions that you should ask about the funds in your 401(k) plan.Unfortunately, discussions about fees can quickly get sidetracked into overstated language that winds up obscuring legitimate questions…