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Sean Brodrick: We know that China’s central government is worried about its nation’s economy. In early June, China’s central bank surprised markets by cutting interest rates for the first time since 2008 to combat faltering growth. Read more…
Jim Trippon: News last Thursday that China’s economy slowed for the seventh consecutive month came from the HSBC Markit Purchasing Managers Index Report. The flash reading for May was 48.7 compared to the 49.3 final reading from April. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Traders often look for relatively easy ways to monitor the battle between “risk-on” and ‘risk-off”. Given that foreign stock indexes have lagged the S&P 500 in recent months and the center of the risk universe sits in Europe, Read more…
Jim Trippon: With the April economic numbers for China (NYSEARCA:FXI) just released, they revived the arguments for the China bears (NYSEARCA:FXP) who believe the economy is in a severe slowdown, still headed for a hard landing. But is this really the case? Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Like it has been for other Japanese families, this past year has been a tough one in my household, too. Perhaps not surprisingly, Sunday’s one-year anniversary brought long-buried emotions to the surface 12 months to the day after the horrific earthquake and the tsunami it spawned Read more…
Tom Essaye: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the tsunami hitting Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ) and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Undoubtedly the country is still healing from the effects of those disasters. But recent data has shown a recovery might be underway that could provide Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The rally off the lows of last week has some work to do before it becomes convincing. While the longer-term outlook remains favorable from a technical perspective, the conviction from buyers needs to pick up in the short-term. Read more…
Rudy Martin: Many of the best emerging-value dividend plays today are traded on the U.S. exchanges. That’s not just my opinion — my proprietary indicators are clearly telling me that’s the Read more…
Jim Trippon: US China watchers are eager to gauge the presumed next leader of China, Vice-President Xi Jinping, when he visits the White House next month. The visit, announced by the Read more…
Jim Trippon: The latest economic data from China (NYSEArca:FXI), which included factory output, retail sales, fixed asset investment and the all-important GDP numbers, initially failed to move Read more…
Jim Trippon: Incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected in a close campaign in Taiwan. Ma, of the Kuomintang Party, or KMT, defeated chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Party Progressive Party, or DPP. Ma received 51.6 percent of the votes to Tsai’s 45.6 percent. Read more…
Jared Cummans: ETF investing has surged in recent years as the industry has experienced exponential growth in nearly all aspects of the universe. Now, there are over 1,400 products with Read more…
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Jim Trippon: China’s (NYSEARCA:FXI) recently released data showed that December consumer inflation had retreated to a 4.1 percent annual growth rate. China’s slowing economy as well as Read more…
Jim Trippon: With many in the financial media in the west raising their voice about China (NYSEARCA:FXI) as an economy in imminent danger of plunging off a cliff, it’s obvious that the Chinese government doesn’t share that view. The Chinese policymakers have been attempting to address and Read more…
JT Long: China (NYSEARCA:FXI) has become the $5.88 trillion question in the world financial equation for 2012. In an attempt to gauge the direction of this economic elephant, Cambridge House Read more…
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