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Russ Koesterich: Last month, in my Investment Directions monthly commentary, Ipredicted that we’d see further stimulus from China this year as officials try to keep Chinese growth at a respectable rate ahead of a fall 2012 leadership transition. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: While I generally like emerging markets better than developed ones, one emerging market I’m not a fan of right now is India. As I explained in a recent post, I currently hold an underweight view of Indian stocks given India’s slowing growth, stubbornly high inflation Read more…
Russ Koesterich: World markets and financial media seem to react to every new data point about China’s economy, whether it’s manufacturing reports or gross domestic product numbers. This market sensitivity isn’t very surprising given how important Read more…
Russ Koesterich: “Is it time to sell emerging market equities?” That’s what many investors are wondering given that emerging market stocks are up significantly since fall lows and have modestly outperformed developed markets year to date. Read more…
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Russ Koesterich: China recently modestly lowered its annual growth target to 7.5% from 8%. This change has made many investors nervousthat China may be in for a period of sluggish growth. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: This week, I’m updating my views on some of the emerging market countries in Asia. While I’m upgrading Chinese equities from neutral to overweight, I’m downgrading South Korean and Indian stocks from neutral to underweight. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Maintain Underweight US Treasuries: This week, our first call focuses on the ongoing drama over the US debt ceiling and its implications for the US Treasury Market.While the clock continues to tick towards an August 2nd deadline for raising the debt ceiling, Congress and Read more…
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…
iShares, the largest U.S. ETF issuer by total assets, added another ETF offering exposure to Chinese equities to its product lineup this week. The MSCI China Index Fund (NYSE:MCHI) will seek to Read more…
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) today announced that its iShares® Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world’s largest manager of ETFs, is launching the iShares MSCI China Index Fund (NYSE:MCHI) on the NYSE Arca. iShares now offers 40 international single country ETFs. The fund Read more…
iShares will begin trading its new “iShares MSCI China Index Fund” (NYSE:MCHI) Wednesday, March 31, 2011. The iShares MSCI China Index Fund (the “Fund”) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI China Index. The Read more…
In trading on Monday, the iPath Global Carbon ETN (NYSE:GRN) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 24.42% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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