Stoyan Bojinov: The aftermath of the most recent financial crisis has yet to be fully resolved as much of the developed world is still plagued by the weight of its own debt. In Europe, lawmakers are struggling to ensure stability as many of the largest economies in the region Read more…
NYSE:ECH, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:MES, NYSE:RSXJ
Stocks ended the session mostly higher on mixed trade. The Nasdaq showed relative strength for the second consecutive day as it posted a 0.8% gain. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 tacked on 0.3%, while the S&P added a modest 0.1%. Read more…
NYSE:IDX, NYSE:XLF
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…
NYSE:EGPT, NYSE:EZA, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:TUR, NYSE:VNM
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…
NYSE:COLX, NYSE:EIDO, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:IDX
Stoyan Bojinov: Judging from the sideways price action on Wall Street this week, it seems that investors went through the full cycle of emotions. With corporate earnings seasons drawing to a close at home investors are once again focusing Read more…
NYSE:IDX
Ron Rowland: I’m always on the lookout for investment opportunities. The last few years, most of the profit potential seems to be outside the U.S. Read more…
NYSE:EPI, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWS, NYSE:FXI, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:VNM
Stocks closed mixed on Wednesday on mixed trade. Both the Nasdaq and the small-cap Russell 2000 tacked on 0.3%, while the S&P MicCap 400 ended the session higher by 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 slid 0.1% and 0.3% respectively. Read more…
NYSE:EUM, NYSE:IDX
Van Eck Associates Corporation is lowering the expense cap for its Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (NYSEARCA:IDX) from 60 basis points (bps) to 57 bps, effective today. This marks the second time in IDX’s more than three-year Read more…
NYSE:BRF, NYSE:GERJ, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:VNM, PLND, RSX, SCIF
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…
NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EFA, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:EWW, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:IDX
Tony Sagami: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, may have brought the U.S. into war against the Japanese, but Japan had been waging war against much of Asia for a decade before Read more…
NYSE:CHIQ, NYSE:EWH, NYSE:EWJ, NYSE:EWS, NYSE:EWT, NYSE:EWY
If there’s one country I’ve been consistently bullish on during the last five years, it’s Indonesia. When I speak at investment seminars and discuss Indonesia, you can see the eyes widen and the pens picked up to jot down Read more…
AMEX:IF, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:IDXJ
Zacks ETF Research: Southeast Asian countries have had a long tradition of enticing investors from all over the globe. This is because the market is an attractive destination for domestic and foreign, investors thanks to solid growth rates, booming populations and generally good governance. Read more…
NYSE:ASEA, NYSE:EIDO, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:EWS, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:VNM
Tony Sagami: Chinese stocks started off with a bang this year, rallying by 10% in January and February, but struggling since Premier Wen Jiabao lowered China’s 2012 GDP growth forecast from 8% to 7.5% on March 5. Read more…
NYSE:ASEA, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:THD
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…
NYSE:EWM, NYSE:EWT, NYSE:EWW, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:EZA
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…
NYSE:EES, NYSE:FXD, NYSE:GXG, NYSE:RCD, NYSE:THD, NYSE:XRT
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