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Joseph Hogue: Fitch became the first of the three credit agencies to return Indonesia to investment grade since the country lost the rating 14 years ago. But retail investors looking for a way back to the country have several options to consider. Read more…
Stocks surged higher on Friday as trade slid. All five major indices closed higher by 2.0% or more. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA: IWM) was the day’s biggest winner as it tacked on 2.7%. The S&P MidCap 400 climbed 2.3% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA: DIA) improved 2.2% Read more…
Eric Dutram: One of the biggest stories in the investing world over the past few years as been the rise of emerging markets. These countries continue to grow at an impressive clip and are in a much better position from a fiscal perspective than their developed market counterparts. Furthermore, the countries Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Neutral on Indonesia – I first advocated an overweight view of Indonesia back in early February. Since then, the market has bucked the negative global trend. Since February, the iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index Fund (NYSE:EIDO) has gained roughly 9% Read more…
In trading on Monday, the Focus Morningstar Consumer Cycle (NYSE:FCL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 7.91% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
Van Eck has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Indonesia Small-Cap ETF.” The Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap Index. The Index is a rules based, modified capitalization weighted, float adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of Read more…
Eric Dutram: While 2011 may have gotten off to a good start for many equity markets, a summer slowdown has hit stocks across the globe. Worries over the fallout from a downgrade of American debt have now shifted to concerns over more stimulus either by the Federal Reserve or by Read more…
Ed Kuczma is a member of the Investment Team at Van Eck Global, a firm that has a number of ETFs targeting various corners of the market both in equities and in bonds. Currently, Ed specializes in the EMEA region, doing analysis on the various markets that make up these emerging regions. Read more…
In a roller coaster session stocks closed modestly down on Monday. The day began with stocks gapping higher but immediately being met with selling pressure. The markets slumped until the lunch hour, consolidated at the lows until 2:45 pm and then caught a bid and rallied into the close. Read more…
Stocks fell across the board on brisk trade. All five major indices closed down on the session. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) led the plunge as it fell 1.5%. In a similar exhibition of weakness both the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) and the S&P MidCap 400 both shed just over 1.2%. Read more…
Thomas Carreno: I have posted the chart of the Jakarta Composite before some time ago and I did so because I thought it was eye opening that a market index can do a 62% correction and then blast higher almost non stop going all the way back up to the old high and then blasting out even higher as Read more…
Kevin Grewal: As many investors seek to find the next emerging opportunity, the Asian nation of Indonesia may be the answer to their prayers. Read more…
Global investors are catching on to the fascinating story of Indonesia. As Asia’s fifth-largest economy and its third most-populous nation – with 240 million people – more than half of that population is under the age of 30. And today, thanks largely to a boom in commodities, Indonesia’s economy is Read more…
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