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Neena Mishra: 2012 started on a strong note for the emerging economies but many of them have been hit recently by slowdown concerns. Of the giant BRIC nations, Brazil seems to be the worst hit. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: While the news worldwide seems universally gloomy, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any bargains to be had. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: While most investors remain focused on the seemingly never-ending debt drama in the eurozone or the sluggish U.S. economic recovery, few are paying attention to Mexico, which has actually turned out to be a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economic environment. Read more…
Ron Rowland: We did just see some big news across the border. Enrique Peña Nieto won a three-way race to become the nation’s next president. Read more…
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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Ron Rowland: Where do you look for opportunities? When the subject is international ETFs, people often think first about Europe and Asia. And indeed, you can find profit potential in both those places. Read more…
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Scott Martin: From a technical point of view, emerging markets have gotten a nice lift over the last week. But not all slices of the globe have bounced back equally. Read more…
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Michael A. Gayed: The emerging markets in the BRIC group — Brazil, Russia, India and China — remain drags on the global asset class, but their counterparts elsewhere in Asia and Latin America are cementing their leadership. Read more…
Joseph Hogue: Emerging market funds recorded a tenth week of inflows last week, the longest run since 2010, as investors put global risk (pronounced eurozone crisis) behind them. Despite the continued inflows, the average emerging market (NYSEArca:VWO) equity portfolio lost 3.1 percent as investors Read more…
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Rudy Martin: The world’s leading economies are working to line up a deal in April on a second global rescue package, worth nearly $2 trillion, to stop the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis from spreading and putting at risk the tentative Read more…
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Don Miller: The never-ending hunt for higher yield is leading investors to bet record amounts on emerging market debt. In just the first two weeks of 2012, governments of undeveloped economies from Asia to Africa sold more than $30.6 billion in dollar-denominated bonds Read more…
Joseph Hogue: The financial sector in Latin America continues to attract attention from buyers both domestic and foreign. Itau Unibanco Holding (NYSE:ITUB) told Estado de Sao Paulo news over the Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: The Eurozone is about to collapse. The United States is struggling out of the deepest recession since World War II. And the IMF forecasts global growth will drop from 5% in 2011 to 2.6% in 2012. 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…
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