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Stoyan Bojinov: Slow and steady economic growth at home coupled with a looming debt crisis in the European currency bloc have promoted investors of all walks to seek out safe havens and uncorrelated returns amidst this uncertain backdrop. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: “Is it time to sell emerging market equities?” That’s what many investors are wondering given that emerging market stocks are up significantly since fall lows and have modestly outperformed developed markets year to date. Read more…
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Eric Dutram: In total, the first quarter of 2012 was a great year for the ETF industry. Issuers saw 85 new products hit the market—while 16 were delisted—and net inflows reached nearly $56 billion in the time period. This surge in interest, as well as the strong performance of the market, led total ETF assets to hit Read more…
Stocks ended the session mixed on heavy trade. The NYSE and S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) posted modest gains of 0.3% and 0.1% respectively. The Nasdaq closed fractionally lower, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA), S&P MidCap 400 and small-cap Russell 200 Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: As interest in emerging markets has accelerated over the past few years, many investors have sought to identify the economies from the developing world that maintain the most significant long-term potential. Many engaging in that search have gravitated towards Brazil, home to an 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 Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stocks drifted higher on Tuesday following a positive home-builders confidence report along with better-than-expected earnings from Bank of America (NYSE:BAC). Read more…
Eric Dutram: Thanks to higher demand for risky assets, and India’s better-than-expected GDP report yesterday, many investors are once again bullish on emerging markets. These nations often have better growth prospects and balance sheets than their developed market counterparts making Read more…
Todd Shriber: Every now and then even the savviest of investors fall into the value trap. They buy an ETF or stock that, in their view, has been unjustly punished. To be sure, this market environment has provided investors with no shortage of punished ETFs. That’s a good news/bad news equation. Read more…
American stock markets continued to face resistance this week as equities struggled to fight through a bad report from Hewlett-Packard and anemic U.S. housing data. Although the Nasdaq Read more…
American equity markets, which started the day on a high note thanks to a solid jobs report, finished the day markedly below their highs as concerns over the situation in Europe once again Read more…
American equity markets powered to solid gains in Thursday’s session as good news in the financial, industrial, and consumer staples sectors helped to offset some weakness in the tech Read more…
U.S. equity markets rose broadly in Wednesday trading as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments as well as solid earnings helped to push stocks higher. The Dow finished the day up by 96 points Read more…
iShares has issued a plea to the shareholders of a few of their funds asking them to vote on an investment advisory agreement. They have had to adjourn their meeting for a 3rd time due to insufficient Read more…
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