Michael Johnston: As the economies of the Europe, the United States and Japan have struggled to overcome a variety of challenges in recent years, investors have come to question the conventional wisdom that developed markets offer greater stability than Read more…

BATS:EWAS, NYSE:CROC, NYSE:EWA, NYSE:FAUS, NYSE:KROO

Michael Johnston: After recently becoming the first issuer to list products on the BATS Exchange, iShares followed up with six more international equity products on Thursday. Three of the ETFs that began trading are the first of their kind, offering exposure to asset classes not previously accessible in the Read more…

BATS:EDEN, BATS:EFNL, BATS:EWAS, BATS:EWCS, BATS:EWGS, BATS:EWUS

iShares will begin trading its new “iShares MSCI Australia Small Cap Index Fund” (BATS:EWAS) Thursday, January 26, 2012. The Read more…

BATS:EWAS, FUND LAUNCH

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a global operator of stock and options markets, today announced that BlackRock, Inc.’s (NYSEArca:BLK) iShares® Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world’s largest manager of ETFs, will list eight new ETFs on Read more…

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