Michael A. Gayed:  Early in January, Brazil’s central bank cut its interest rates for the fourth time to 10.5%, with more room to keep cutting in an effort to soften the blow of a European economic slowdown. Investors in Brazil seem to be positioning aggressively for the idea that growth will pick up as a result. Read more…

NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:EWZ

Interest in emerging markets has surged in recent years, and investors have embraced ETFs as the preferred means of accessing this asset class. Emerging markets have been established as the clear leaders of global GDP growth, while the economies of the United States and much of Europe have Read more…

NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:ECON, NYSE:GGEM, NYSE:INCO, NYSE:VGEM

So far in 2011 more than 200 new exchange-traded products have debuted, taking the ETF lineup close to the 1,300 mark. Over the past several years, the exposure accessible through ETFs has become increasingly granular; while some of the new products debuting are “plain vanilla” funds Read more…

INXX, NASDAQ:SKYY, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:ECON, NYSE:EIRL, NYSE:SCHZ, NYSE:SOIL

The word in the investor press is that Brazil is dead money for awhile. Writing off an entire market seems a little dated when there is still plenty of value there. Read more…

NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:EWZ

The big banks are already ratcheting their growth targets lower for Brazil after the country’s less than spectacular GDP numbers came in yesterday. Read more…

NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:EWZ

I was in Moscow a few weeks ago sitting in on a very interesting panel on the emerging middle class with Columbia professor Joe Stiglitz and Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s finance minister. Read more…

KXI, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:ECON, RXI

In trading on Thursday, the Wireless HOLDRS ETF (AMEX:WMH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.12% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…

AMEX:HHH, JFT, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:BRF, NYSE:EPU, WMH

With 2011 just around the corner, the curtain is closing on yet another year of tremendous expansion in the ETF industry. With inflows for the year at close to $100 billion, total ETF assets Read more…

JNK, LIT, LQD, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:BSCB, NYSE:BSCH, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:DBC, NYSE:DJP, NYSE:ECON, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EWEM, NYSE:GTAA, PEK, PHB, RSP, SHY, SPY, USCI, VWO

Global X Funds, the New York-based provider of exchange traded funds, announced it crossed the $1 billion mark in assets Read more…

LIT, NYSE:BRAF, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:BRAZ, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:GLDX, NYSE:GXG, SIL, URA

David Fry: In 2003, I interviewed a successful sponsor and had the temerity to offer some suggestions where some ETFs were needed. The response from this person was: “Look, we’re not Read more…

IAU, JJC, JJG, JYN, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:DBB, NYSE:DBC, NYSE:ERO, NYSE:GBB, NYSE:GLD, OIL, SH, SPY

Now that last week’s big macro and monetary policy events are out of the way, traders have time to return to earnings reports that were ignored in the news tsunami. Here are a few tickers on our Read more…

INXX, NYSE:BRAQ

As developed economies stagnate under the burden of rising unemployment and deteriorating fiscal situations, investor interest in emerging markets continues to climb. The gap in growth Read more…

NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:ECON, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWX, SPY, VWO

In the wake of the recent recession, many Americans are now acutely aware of the perils of maintaining mountains of personal debt, and have taken steps to reduce credit card balances and Read more…

NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:ECON

The exchange traded fund menu is growing fast. So far this year more than 170 new ETFs and similar exchange-traded products have hit the market in the U.S. Read more…

INXX, LIT, MLPs, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:CCX, NYSE:ENZL, NYSE:EPHE

iShares is set to begin trading their “iShares MSCI Brazil Small Cap Index Fund” (NYSE:EWZS) tomorrow September 29th. The iShares MSCI Brazil Small Cap Index Fund (the “Fund”) seeks Read more…

NYSE:BRAF, NYSE:BRAQ, NYSE:BRAZ, NYSE:BRF, NYSE:BRXX, NYSE:BZF, NYSE:BZQ, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:EWZS, UBR