Seeking Alpha Seeking Alpha Portfolio App for iPad  Is it
difficult to grasp the appeal of precious metals? Not really…
no. World powers are fighting to weaken their respective
currencies to enhance or maintain their ability to export goods.
Gold, in particular, has been acting as a proxy for “paper”
uncertainty.  Is it hard to understand why single-country
emerging market funds dominated the performance leader-board in
2010? Not particularly… no. Thailand (THD), Indonesia (IDX),
Peru (EPU) and Chile (ECH) offered exposure to dynamic growth
plays in up-n-coming regions, while letting the investor side-
step broader-based indexes with excessive materials exposure.
Is it challenging to identify why Software (IGV) and Semis (XSD)
dominated the tech space? Not in actuality… no. Corporations
seriously needed upgrades with Windows 7; having balked at the
notoriously poor Windows Vista a few years earlier, companies
could commit to productivity enhancement without adding
significantly to human resources overhead.  N