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Jim Trippon: Investors in China are of course paying close attention and are strongly interested in both the near term and long term direction of China’s economy. Most of the news from the western financial media has painted a negative picture of China recently Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Traders often look for relatively easy ways to monitor the battle between “risk-on” and ‘risk-off”. Given that foreign stock indexes have lagged the S&P 500 in recent months and the center of the risk universe sits in Europe, Read more…
Jim Trippon: With the April economic numbers for China (NYSEARCA:FXI) just released, they revived the arguments for the China bears (NYSEARCA:FXP) who believe the economy is in a severe slowdown, still headed for a hard landing. But is this really the case? Read more…
Larry D. Spears: For most of the past decade, the name of the game in worldwide equities has been investing in emerging markets. Read more…
Jim Trippon: The pundits are out in full force on China. First they were yelling the sky was falling for the Chinese economy, but now that slowing growth in China appears to be both a more mixed picture and not the dire event first predicted, the China critics turn to Chinese stocks. The latest sounds are the Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: A good way to sum up the conflicting signals that the markets are giving from a short-term perspective is to look at our comments from Wednesday. Before the market opened, we posted charts that had a bullish slant. At 2:30 p.m. EDT, we said the session was weaker than it appeared. Read more…
Scott Martin: As a sum-of-the-parts play, the MSCI Ireland ETF (NYSEARCA:EIRL) seems to have room to head higher whether traders get defensive or deepen their bets on a fresh burst of growth for the global economy. Read more…
Michael Johnston: The ongoing expansion of the ETF industry continues to bring previously hard-to-reach corners of the global financial market at the fingertips of mainstream investors and institutional money managers alike. However, with innovation also comes the introduction of new complexities, and for Read more…
Scott Martin: Asset class correlation is rarely an exact science, but traders have found that some indicators are still invaluable triggers for timing entries and exits on countries such as India and Brazil. Read more…
Scott Martin: From a technical point of view, emerging markets have gotten a nice lift over the last week. But not all slices of the globe have bounced back equally. Read more…
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Martin D. Weiss: I return from a wonderful vacation — beardless, tan, and rested … but also very wary of the unfolding events: Just when everyone thought the debt crisis was over … giant deficits didn’t matter … and the global economy was on the mend … We have witnessed a sudden shift in global events … and Read more…
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Richard Mills: As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Trade imbalances – deficits and surpluses – between nations are one of the major reasons for financial crises. Countries become trapped in a vicious spiral – they accumulate debt because they are Read more…
Yiannis Mostrous: Malaysia traditionally has been viewed as a backward economy with a very defensive market. As a general rule, the Malaysian market tends to perform best relative to other Asian markets during periods of higher oil prices. That’s because Malaysia is a net exporter of oil. Read more…
Jim Trippon: It wasn’t one of the top news items recently in the western media, and it didn’t even get a lot of play in the financial media. Yet it’s an item of importance for China watchers and investors, especially, to notice. It’s the announcement that China will attempt to increase its imports further. Many China Read more…
Jim Trippon: At the quarter pole of this year, the Shanghai Composite Index finished an eventful three months which saw the year start out with a bang, only to see the rally in China stocks (NYSEARCA:FXI) briefly run out of steam, as it gave up some of its gains with a whimper. Investors are divided as to what the Read more…
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