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Tony Daltorio: Brazil’s central bank may hack 75 basis points from the country’s benchmark interest rate in October to battle perceptions that its economy is slowing. Read more…
Here we go again with another global sell-off. Just when things are starting to feel comfortable again, everything has to go haywire. The markets can’t keep doing this, can they? History tells us that eventually things will bottom out. Hopefully it will be by the year’s end, but as investors continue Read more…
Michael Johnston: State Street, the issuer behind the two largest U.S.-listed exchange-traded products, announced today the launch today of three new funds offering targeted exposure to key sub-sectors of the U.S. economy. The new funds will track narrow corners of the technology, health care, and industrials sector Read more…
George Mack: If energy, food and education are the building blocks of civilization, Greenpeace Cofounder Patrick Moore is using his role of “sensible environmentalist” to build support for the concept of sustainable power generation. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Patrick proposes that industry Read more…
New York-based investment manager Van Eck Global announced that it is lowering the expense cap on its Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF (NYSE:BRF), effective today. BRF’s expense cap is being reduced from 62 basis points (bps) to 59 bps. Van Eck expects that, as a result of this, investors in BRF Read more…
John Daly: The prosperity of China’s “authoritarian capitalism” is increasingly rewriting the ground-rules worldwide on the capitalist principles that have dominated the West’s economy for nearly two centuries. Read more…
“The game is rigged,” says Jack Bogle, the octogenarian founder of The Vanguard Group. “It is too convoluted. It is too complex. You shouldn’t be playing the game. You don’t need to Read more…
Justice Litle: While the world fixates on Europe, signs of a China (NYSE:FXI) crash are mounting behind the scenes. Imagine you run a business with 3,000 employees. Your factories churn out 20 million pairs of sunglasses per year — the best-selling brand in China. You are a celebrated businessman in your region Read more…
Eric Dutram: As the economy has continued to weaken in recent months, investors have pushed towards safer choices in a number of sectors of their portfolios. Generally speaking, funds in a few select, defensive sectors tend to benefit in this environment, namely those in the health care, utilities, and consumer staples niches. Read more…
Scott Martin: Foreign investors are helping Kazakhstan become a significant competitor to China in producing rare earth elements, key ingredients of the high-tech economy. Read more…
Tim Seymour: News that Hugo Chavez has checked back into the hospital with kidney failure is giving some traders hope that Venezuela could open up to foreign investment again in the foreseeable future. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Over the past week precious metal investors have had a wakeup call from their big shiny nest eggs. Last week’s free fall in both gold and silver spot prices was enough to get investors into a panic. More on this in a minute though… Read more…
Eric Dutram: As the European crisis continues to play out, investors are once again taking a closer look at the German economy. The central European country is the largest economy in Europe and is basically the backstop for weaker nations across the bloc so a strong, growing economy is vital for the health of the entire euro zone. Read more…
Ron Rowland: “Calling the bottom” is one of the hardest tasks most investors ever face. A wrong choice can devastate your portfolio.
We all fantasize about “bottom-fishing Read more…
In trading on Thursday, the KEYnotes First Trust Enh 130/30 LgCp ETN (NYSE:JFT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 12.69% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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