Tony Sagami: How did your portfolio do in 2011? The answer greatly depends on where you invested your money and how able you were to withstand some wild volatility. Read more…
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Ron Rowland: Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are wonderful for many reasons. And as year-end approaches, I want to remind you of a key strategy using ETFs — because it can put money in your Read more…
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U.S. News & World Report today unveiled its first ever ranking of the Best Fit ETFs. The list can be found at http://money.usnews.com/funds/etfs. Read more…
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Frank Holmes: Markets in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan and Korea were closed last week as people across Asia celebrated Moon Festival, one of the culture’s most beloved holidays along with Chinese New Year. Moon Festival’s origins center around a husband (Houyi) and wife (Chang’e), who were sentenced to live Read more…
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Larry Levinson: The People’s Bank of China says cutting the rate of inflation remains its top priority, even after price increases eased slightly in August. 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 business, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may or may not be repetitive. Read more…
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Tony Sagami: We are thick in the middle of quarterly earnings season, and even though all we typically read and hear about are U.S. companies, the long arm of China is having huge impacts on many of them. Read more…
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Tony Sagami: The jockeying for 2012 votes has already started, and you’re going to hear a lot about raising the debt ceiling as well as reducing the staggering amount of debt that our country Read more…
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The ETF that tracks the BRICs is down 5% over the last 6 months, lagging the S&P 500 which is up close to 12% during the same time. To find out why this Read more…
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It is probably safe to say that feudal China of the ancient philosopher’s day had very little in common with the fast-growing industrial powerhouse of the 21st century, and yet Read more…
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Tony Sagami: You’re probably reading this column because you want to make money, and you’re probably not a millionaire … yet. Read more…
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BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) yesterday (3/31/11) announced the listing of the iShares MSCI China Index Fund (NYSE:MCHI). The press release claims it is the first ETF to be benchmarked to the Read more…
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Many U.S. companies are struggling against low-cost Chinese competition and blowhard politicians eager to play the blame game for our economic woes, and they are ratcheting up the rhetoric about Read more…
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Despite a series of tightening monetary measures in 2010, China’s economy grew by an astonishing 9.8 percent in the fourth quarter pushing it ahead of Japan as the world’s second largest economy, Read more…
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Something very, very important happened in the closing days of 2010, and very few people noticed. The “BRIC” club is expanding to include South Africa. Today I’ll discuss this development Read more…
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