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Russ Koesterich: Last month, in my Investment Directions monthly commentary, Ipredicted that we’d see further stimulus from China this year as officials try to keep Chinese growth at a respectable rate ahead of a fall 2012 leadership transition. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Emerging market investments are definitely an attractive proposition for long-term investors. These nations are often characterized by high economic growth, Read more…
Russ Koesterich: World markets and financial media seem to react to every new data point about China’s economy, whether it’s manufacturing reports or gross domestic product numbers. This market sensitivity isn’t very surprising given how important Read more…
Eric Dutram: Although emerging markets have seen some shaky trading as of late, developing nations still offer up a compelling investment case. These nations generally have high growth rates, reasonable amounts of debt, and can often be uncorrelated to broader markets, a factor that could prove key given Read more…
Russ Koesterich: “If everyone in China lengthened their shirt tails by a foot, the textile mills of England would spin for a year.” That’s what one Englishman reportedly said nearly two centuries ago about the prospect of selling to, and profiting from, consumers in emerging markets. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: China recently modestly lowered its annual growth target to 7.5% from 8%. This change has made many investors nervousthat China may be in for a period of sluggish growth. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: This week, I’m updating my views on some of the emerging market countries in Asia. While I’m upgrading Chinese equities from neutral to overweight, I’m downgrading South Korean and Indian stocks from neutral to underweight. Read more…
Michael Johnston: In yet another first for the U.S. ETF industry, State Street has rolled out the first fund to focus exclusively on small cap stocks in Asia Pacific economies. The New SPDR S&P Small Cap Emerging Asia Pacific ETF (NYSEARCA:GMFS) joins an existing SPDR ETF targeting large cap stocks Read more…
Jared Cummans: As the ETF industry has maintained its strong growth, investors have grown increasingly comfortable with establishing exposure to various markets utilizing the exchange-traded structure. Now, with 1,300+ funds in the space, there is an ETF for almost any investment Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Maintain Underweight US Treasuries: This week, our first call focuses on the ongoing drama over the US debt ceiling and its implications for the US Treasury Market.While the clock continues to tick towards an August 2nd deadline for raising the debt ceiling, Congress and Read more…
iShares, the largest U.S. ETF issuer by total assets, added another ETF offering exposure to Chinese equities to its product lineup this week. The MSCI China Index Fund (NYSE:MCHI) will seek to Read more…
Once upon a time, exposure to the Chinese stock market was a binary decision for U.S. investors–they either had it or they didn’t. Thanks in part to increased flexibility in cross-border listings Read more…
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BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) today announced that the iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world’s largest provider of ETFs, launched three new iShares emerging markets ETFs Read more…
iShares is set to begin trading their “iShares MSCI China Small Cap Index Fund” (NYSE:ECNS) tomorrow September 29th. The iShares MSCI China Small Cap Index Fund (the “Fund”) seeks Read more…
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