Neena Mishra: 2012 started on a strong note for the emerging economies but many of them have been hit recently by slowdown concerns. Of the giant BRIC nations, Brazil seems to be the worst hit. Read more…
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Neena Mishra: Emerging Markets are expected to be increasingly large contributors to the global growth in the coming years. Usually the BRIC nations come to mind when investors Read more…
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Martin Hutchinson: Words, indeed, are powerful things. As an Englishman in America, my personal favorite is freedom. It’s embodied by those words penned so long ago by a young Thomas Jefferson… Read more…
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Ron Rowland: I’m always on the lookout for investment opportunities. The last few years, most of the profit potential seems to be outside the U.S. Read more…
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Ron Rowland: Where do you look for opportunities? When the subject is international ETFs, people often think first about Europe and Asia. And indeed, you can find profit potential in both those places. Read more…
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Eric Dutram: For investors who focus on emerging market ETFs, political intervention should always be a key worry. While many governments in emerging nations have done a pretty good job of letting companies exist freely outside the state, Argentina has apparently taken a different approach as of late. Read more…
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Scott Martin: Peruvian stocks have outperformed everything else in Latin America so far this year. However, traders who chalk up the rally to the country’s traditional gold and copper wealth would be Read more…
NYSE:ECH, NYSE:EPU
In the mid-90s, there were few choices when it came to investing in exchange traded funds (ETF). Today, you can find an ETF to suit pretty much anything you want. From tracking the S&P 500, to the global fishing industry, to small caps in Read more…
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Stocks recovered from a morning gap down to close lower but well off session lows, on light trade. Small cap stocks suffered the most yesterday as the Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) and the S&P MidCap 400 shed 1.0% and 0.7% respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial average (NYSE:DIA) lost just over 0.5% Read more…
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David Fry: After a recent series of rises and falls, the MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund (NYSEARCA:EPU) has recovered most of its losses and is trading at a healthy $44.87 per share (as of March 14th), just 11% below its all-time high of $50.47 in February 2011. Investors were spooked in June 2011 when the Read more…
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Sara Nunnally: Emerging markets (NYSEArca:VWO) are hot. But when it comes to the best of them all, there’s one relatively undiscovered country you need to know about. Read more…
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Joseph Hogue: The financial sector in Latin America continues to attract attention from buyers both domestic and foreign. Itau Unibanco Holding (NYSE:ITUB) told Estado de Sao Paulo news over the Read more…
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Stocks ended the day mixed as volume waned. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA) was the only, of the five major indices, to post a loss yesterday, as it closed lower by a modest 0.1%. Higher beta stocks led the day as the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ), small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) Read more…
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David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, and nearly 40 years in the investment Read more…
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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…
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