Slok Carpenter: What are CIVETS anyway? A Goldman Sachs economist coined the term BRIC ten years ago describing the four big emerging markets he predicted would drive global economic growth: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Read more…
NYSE:EGPT, NYSE:EZA, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:TUR, NYSE:VNM
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…
NYSE:COLX, NYSE:EIDO, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:IDX
Stoyan Bojinov: Judging from the sideways price action on Wall Street this week, it seems that investors went through the full cycle of emotions. With corporate earnings seasons drawing to a close at home investors are once again focusing Read more…
NYSE:IDX
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…
NYSE:EPI, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWS, NYSE:FXI, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:VNM
Stocks closed mixed on Wednesday on mixed trade. Both the Nasdaq and the small-cap Russell 2000 tacked on 0.3%, while the S&P MicCap 400 ended the session higher by 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 slid 0.1% and 0.3% respectively. Read more…
NYSE:EUM, NYSE:IDX
Van Eck Associates Corporation is lowering the expense cap for its Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (NYSEARCA:IDX) from 60 basis points (bps) to 57 bps, effective today. This marks the second time in IDX’s more than three-year Read more…
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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…
NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EFA, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:EWW, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:IDX
If there’s one country I’ve been consistently bullish on during the last five years, it’s Indonesia. When I speak at investment seminars and discuss Indonesia, you can see the eyes widen and the pens picked up to jot down Read more…
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Zacks ETF Research: Southeast Asian countries have had a long tradition of enticing investors from all over the globe. This is because the market is an attractive destination for domestic and foreign, investors thanks to solid growth rates, booming populations and generally good governance. Read more…
NYSE:ASEA, NYSE:EIDO, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:EWS, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:VNM
Tony Sagami: Chinese stocks started off with a bang this year, rallying by 10% in January and February, but struggling since Premier Wen Jiabao lowered China’s 2012 GDP growth forecast from 8% to 7.5% on March 5. Read more…
NYSE:ASEA, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:THD
Market Vectors ETF Trust today announced the launch of Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF (NYSEArca:IDXJ), the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to provide investors with pure play exposure to the small capitalization Read more…
NYSE:IDX, NYSE:IDXJ
Sean Geary: Investors seeking exposure to the explosion of middle class growth in frontier and emerging markets have started to turn their attention to Southeast Asia. Here are a few of the ETFs that focus on countries in this region. Read more…
NYSE:EWM, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:THD, NYSE:VNM
Richard Mills: As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. The most investable trend over the next 20 years is going to be the rising price of commodities, rising prices will be caused by two factors; Read more…
NYSE:DBA, NYSE:EPI, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:MOO
David Fry: Investors looking for exposure in the developing economies of Latin America would be remiss to not take advantage of the growth opportunities in Chile. At the moment there is only one ETF that provides exposure to this Read more…
NYSE:ECH, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:JJC
Jonathan Yates: For Indonesia to meets its goal of 7% yearly growth by 2014, there is much work to be done by companies like Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) and Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR). Read more…
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