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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…
Slok Carpenter: What are CIVETS anyway? A Goldman Sachs economist coined the term BRIC ten years ago describing the four big emerging markets he predicted would drive global economic growth: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Read more…
Neena Mishra: Emerging Markets are expected to be increasingly large contributors to the global growth in the coming years. Usually the BRIC nations come to mind when investors Read more…
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Eric Dutram: European events continue to dominate the headlines despite the relatively successful Greek election. As the small country looks to pick up the pieces of its economy and build for the future, the focus is shifting towards larger markets in the region. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Words, indeed, are powerful things. As an Englishman in America, my personal favorite is freedom. It’s embodied by those words penned so long ago by a young Thomas Jefferson… 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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Neena Mishra: Colombia, a country once known for its political instability, guerilla wars, high crime rate and drug trafficking has now turned into an investor hotspot in Latin America. Read more…
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…
NYSE:AND, NYSE:ECH, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWW, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:ILF
Stocks pared some of Tuesday’s big losses but trade was light. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) led the advance as it posted a 1.6% gain. The S&P MidCap 400 added 1.2%, while both the DJIA (NYSEARCA:DIA) and the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) posted 0.7% gains. The tech-rich Nasdaq climbed Read more…
David Fry: There may have been some understandable skepticism when the Global X FTSE Colombia 20 ETF (NYSE:GXG) was launched in 2009. After all, when Americans thought about Colombia (if they did at all), the first things that came to mind might have been narco-terrorism and Pablo Escobar Read more…
David Fry: After a recent series of rises and falls, the MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund (NYSEARCA:EPU) has recovered most of its losses and is trading at a healthy $44.87 per share (as of March 14th), just 11% below its all-time high of $50.47 in February 2011. Investors were spooked in June 2011 when the Read more…
Michael Johnston: For many investors, March 9, 2009 was a major turning point; on that day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 6,550, capping a disastrous stretch that had erased billions of dollars from portfolios around the world. Fortunately, that proved to be the low point of the recent 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…
Michael Johnston: iShares added to its already robust lineup of emerging markets this week with two new regional products designed to deliver targeted exposure to companies in the developing world. Read more…
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