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Stoyan Bojinov: The aftermath of the most recent financial crisis has yet to be fully resolved as much of the developed world is still plagued by the weight of its own debt. In Europe, lawmakers are struggling to ensure stability as many of the largest economies in the region Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Commodity prices across the board have endured a dismal decline over the past few months as grim global economic growth expectations have kept a lid on investors’ confidence. Uncertainty has been plaguing virtually every corner of the financial market thanks to a sluggish Read more…
Eric Dutram: Emerging market investments are definitely an attractive proposition for long-term investors. These nations are often characterized by high economic growth, Read more…
Eric Dutram: Emerging markets have long have been attracting investors from all around the globe due to their high growth potential and rapid pace of industrialization. Fiscal 2010 marked Read more…
Eric Dutram: As the European debt crisis has intensified in recent weeks and months, many investors have sought to exit the common currency bloc for other European nations that do not use the euro. Generally speaking, this has resulted in many investors Read more…
Michael Johnston: Van Eck, the firm that rolled out the first Indonesia ETF a little more than three years ago, introduced a complementary ETF today that will target small cap stocks in the emerging Asian economy. The Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IDXJ) began trading on the NYSE Read more…
In trading on Friday, the ETRACS ISE Solid State Drive In (NYSEArca:SSDD) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 8.22% on the day. Also up on the day is the Read more…
Michael Johnston: iShares has made another round of additions to its ETF lineup of well more than 200 products, debuting funds that target small cap stocks in Hong Kong and Singapore. The company Read more…
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Eric Dutram: Although many emerging markets still have excellent growth prospects, they have been hammered in recent weeks thanks to a ‘risk off’ trade in equities. Broad funds targeting this space, such as VWO or EEM, have fallen sharply in this time period, declining by nearly 16.8% in the past quarter Read more…
Todd Shriber: On Tuesday, Jim O’Neill, head of asset management at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and the gentleman perhaps most known for coining the term “BRIC” in reference to the Brazil, Russia, India and China quartet, made an interesting, and by his own admission, controversial proclamation Read more…
Carl Delfeld: It is the world’s largest landmass by a vast margin with 6.6 million square miles. At the other end of the spectrum is Vatican City at only 0.17 square miles. Read more…
Russia is one huge investment opportunity. Literally. It is the world’s largest landmass by a vast margin with 6.6 million square miles. At the other end of the spectrum is Vatican City at only 0.17 square miles. With Russia you think of giant companies like Gazprom or Lukoil, controlled by oligarchs in Read more…
Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap ETF (NYSE:RSXJ) last week (4/14/11). RXSJ is the first US-listed fund to target Russian small cap stocks. Read more…
As the ETF industry has continued to expand at a breakneck pace, the introduction of first-to-market products has become somewhat commonplace. Well more than 100 ETFs have debuted this 
April was somewhat of a calming month for markets, as geopolitical concerns took a back seat to earnings reports and a relatively uneventful Federal Reserve meeting. This month saw two of the 
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