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Michael Johnston: iShares continued to debut new products at an impressive pace on Friday with the introduction of another India ETF. The new MSCI India ETF (BATS:INDA) will list on the BATS, joining several other iShares funds on the third-largest U.S. exchange. Last month iShares became the first Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Underweight US utilities sector: The US utilities sector was a top performer in 2011, gaining roughly 15% compared with a flat performance for the broader market. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Mumbai got a big lift overnight that is being attributed to rate cut hopes. Central bank policy is in the picture, but it is not the full story. Read more…
Rudy Martin: The European tightening may be setting the ground for a rebound in financial stocks in the latter part of 2012. The markets had been anticipating a liquidity-driven surge in the financial stocks that does not appear to be forthcoming. Instead, the Europeans seem to be headed for a more Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: You may be surprised to learn that some of the world’s best investors are buying heavily right now – not because they think we’ve hit a bottom, or even the bottom, but because they’re setting themselves up for the next big run. Read more…
John C.K. Daly: Economic South Asian superpower India (NYSEARCA:PIN) has firmly embraced solar power (NYSEARCA:TAN), advancing the target date by five years for selling solar-generated electricity at the same rate as electricity generated by fossil fuel plants, from 2022 to 2017. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Future growth prospects for India are bright, but recent economic data and actions have The India Fund (NYSEARCA:IFN), a closed end fund from Read more…
Eric Dutram: Thanks to increased risk appetites over the last few days, some investors have begun to once again pile into emerging market focused ETFs. Yet, the specter of inflation has kept others at bay from many emerging nations as the rate of price increases in certain industrializing economies Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, and nearly 40 years in the investment business, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may or may not be repetitive. Read more…
Larry Levinson: The Reserve Bank of India will reportedly issue four new banking licenses as part of a push to bring more of the growing country into the formal banking system. Read more…
Stocks rebounded strongly on Tuesday but on lighter trade. All five major indices posted gains of 4% or more. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) led the rally as it tacked on a healthy 6.9%. The S&P MidCap 400 jumped 6.4% while the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) posted a gain of 5.3%. The S&P 500 Read more…
Continuing a trend that has been playing out over the last couple years, two more issuers announced reductions to expense structures over the past few days. Teucrium, the company behind three resource-specific commodity products, announced the introduction of an expense cap on its Read more…
Larry Levinson: Indian central bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao is zeroing in on the threat of inflation, even as a number of reports show the Indian economy is slowing. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Is the Reserve Bank of India the only central bank in the world that is truly an inflation hawk? The recent interest rate move is pretty strong evidence. Read more…
Emerging markets have hit some rough patches in 2011, as concerns over debt in the developed world as well as a possible slowdown in some key developing countries has caused many to pull out of risky markets entirely. As a result, broad based funds such as (NYSE:VWO) or (NYSE:EEM) are Read more…
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