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Daniela Pylypczak: Throughout the past couple of years, investors have witnessed just how far and how deep the Euro Zone’s debt crisis has spread throughout the global financial Read more…
Scott Martin: In the best of times the markets in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic offer traders exposure to the frontier between oil-rich Russia and the euro zone. But lately, funds focused on these stocks have suffered on both sides of the border. Read more…
Joseph Hogue: Whether ECB President Mario Draghi will be proven correct when he said the recent LTRO issuances were an “unquestionable success,” the injection of liquidity into the system is definitely making its way around the region. However, the flows are probably not going where Mr. Draghi would Read more…
Sara Nunnally: It’s happened… We finally see some real pushback against the euro from one of the EU’s newest members: the Czech Republic. On Dec. 15, three months after I first wrote today’s “Best Read more…
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 Read more…
Sara Mareno: As night covers Europe (NYSEARCA: IEV), markets worldwide are hoping the lights stay on in Rome. A colorful figure, Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds responsibility Read more…
Sara Nunnally: It was a very long two weeks… Not only was I watching the value of my dollar slip away, I was drowning my sorrows in Czech beer with a bunch of Canadians. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Emerging markets funds lost $1.64 billion from their investor accounts last week, but the question for traders is now whether this is just a trickle over the wall or a more serious Read more…
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As the ETF world has continued to grow over the past few years, funds have stretched beyond the typical benchmarks such as the S&P 500 or the DJIA and into more exotic or extensive indexes. Read more…
Recently, credit rating agency Fitch downgraded Hungary’s foreign currency credit rating to just above junk status, fueling concerns of the overall health of the nation’s economy and what lies Read more…
Over the past few years, many investors have taken a closer look at emerging markets in order to power their portfolios in a sluggish economic environment. A great deal of interest has been seen Read more…
I have a tendency to look at the world through ETFs and when thinking globally, often in terms of country ETFs. I find that regional ETFs too often dilute some of the trends and ideas I am looking to Read more…
In trading on Monday, the C-Tracks Citi Volatility Index TR ETN (NYSE:CVOL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.64% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
Certain investment themes become so well known that they merit their own acronym. One of those is the BRICs – shorthand for the popular emerging market countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. 
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