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What lurks in some foreign ETFs

The latest wrinkle in the world of exchange-traded funds is a fund that is a foreign company

The latest wrinkle in the world of exchange-traded funds is a fund that is a foreign company. The rush to silver, for example, spawned the creation of the Sprott Physical Silver Trust Ticker:(PSLV), which is a Canadian corporation. Because the trust is not engaged in an active business, it is consid

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