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Eric Dutram: Although emerging market ETF investing has become more popular as of late, some countries are having significant trouble retaining assets. Brazil, for example, was once an investor darling, attracting not only assets from being a member Read more…
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Stoyan Bojinov: For anyone that has been asleep the last few weeks, bullish momentum has without a doubt been the dominant force on Wall Street since the start of 2012. Encouraging economic data releases on the home front have helped to bolster equity markets higher thanks to improving growth expectations. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: As interest in emerging markets has accelerated over the past few years, many investors have sought to identify the economies from the developing world that maintain the most significant long-term potential. Many engaging in that search have gravitated towards Brazil, home to an Read more…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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. 
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 
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