State Street rolled out two new ETFs on Thursday, launching products offering exposure to emerging markets equities and fixed income securities. The SPDR Barclays Capital Emerging Read more…

NYSE:DEM, NYSE:DGS, NYSE:EBND, NYSE:EDIV, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EMLC, NYSE:EWX, NYSE:GMM, NYSE:PCY

U.S. stock market has been persistently in a steady up trend: last week, U.S. total stock market index [Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSE:VTI), SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY)] finally Read more…

NYSE:AGG, NYSE:BND, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:JNK, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:SHV, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:UUP, NYSE:VTI, NYSE:VWO

Mark Cortazzo, Macro Consulting Group, and Christopher Hobart, Hobart Financial Group, discuss their favorite ETF picks with Read more…

NYSE:IWN, NYSE:IWR, NYSE:IWV, NYSE:MCRO, NYSE:PCY

As developing nations continue to draw investor attention, opportunities in developing market debt may present a viable opportunity. Read more…

NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:PCY

Stocks traded strongly on Friday, as all major indices finished higher on the session. Tech stocks led the charge, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index finishing at its highest level since late Read more…

NYSE:PCY, NYSE:PIZ, NYSE:XLY

In recent years, emerging markets have been established as the clear leaders of global GDP growth, while the economies of the U.S. and western Europe have stalled. Developed markets are facing Read more…

NYSE:BRF, NYSE:CEW, NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:ECON, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EMLC, NYSE:EWX, NYSE:HAO, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:SCIN, NYSE:VWO

Over the past few years, investors’ comfort level with obtaining bond exposure via ETFs has increased rapidly as a multitude of new products have hit the market, slicing and dicing the fixed Read more…

NYSE:EBND, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EMLC, NYSE:PCY

No matter where investors look in the developed world, the picture isn’t pretty. In the U.S. unemployment remains intolerably high, and uncertainty over the latest round of QE will continue Read more…

NYSE:BRF, NYSE:CEW, NYSE:EEB, NYSE:EEG, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWX, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:FRN, NYSE:FXI, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:HAO, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:PEK, NYSE:RSX, NYSE:THD, NYSE:VWO, NYSE:YAO

Maybe you’ve noticed that many of the stocks rising through the ranks of the broader market lately have a foreign accent. Read more…

NYSE:HAO, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:PCY

I previously detailed here and here how an investor can use ETF Replay to screen for best performing ETFs based on momentum and volatility. Users can set up their own portfolios, track, Read more…

NYSE:DBA, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:RWX, NYSE:SCZ

As talks of a bubble forming in the US bond market continue to prevail, many investors have turned to the Brazilian bond market and for good reason. Read more…

NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EMLC, NYSE:PCY

I previously detailed here and here how an investor can use ETF Replay to screen for best performing ETFs based on momentum and volatility. Users can set up their own portfolios, track Read more…

NYSE:LQD, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:PFF, NYSE:SCZ, NYSE:SDY, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:TLT

While there have been pockets of strength in emerging markets for equities (see links below), emerging markets bonds have been even stronger performers in 2010, both on an absolute and Read more…

NASDAQ:IGOV, NASDAQ:ISHG, NYSE:BWX, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:PCY

With the S&P500 cratering (uh-oh, we hit the dreaded Hindenurg Omen) and investors flooding to the (perceived) safety of Treasuries in droves, the thing that differentiates this market from the Read more…

NYSE:AMJ, NYSE:ECH, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:FRI, NYSE:FRN, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:ICF, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:IIH, NYSE:JJT, NYSE:JO, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:PFF, NYSE:PGF, NYSE:THD, NYSE:TUR, NYSE:VXZ, NYSE:ZROZ

A reader recently asked how eliminating the volatility factor from my ETF Relative Strength portfolio would change the results.  Last months results had bonds listed near the top so I reran the Read more…

NYSE:DBA, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:IEF, NYSE:PCY, NYSE:RWX, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:TLT