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John Hood
Direxion Moonshot Innovators ETF
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COMMENT
May 06, 2011
Global Agriculture ETF (COW) or Agribusinesses ETF (MOO) or is there something with better momentum? He could care less about momentum but does prefer the COW, simply because it is in Cdn $s..
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