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Eric Dutram: 2012 started off as a pretty solid year for the markets as equities rose across the board in the first quarter. However, the second quarter wasn’t nearly as friendly to investors as markets slumped thanks to a number of risks. Read more…
Neena Mishra: The equity markets began the year 2012 on a strong note but as the Euro-zone situation worsened and emerging markets’ slowdown appeared much worse-than-expected, the investors rushed into “safe haven” assets. 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…
Eric Dutram: Turkey ETF is up more than 19% year-to-date- a sharp reversal from its disastrous performance (negative 36.3% return) in 2011, thanks to solid investor interest, as the economy showed remarkable resilience to the events in the euro-zone. Read more…
Sara Nunnally: Not all of Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) is in trouble. The headline-grabbing crisis is a clear and easy opportunity for patient investors. Back in December, I told you about the interesting dynamic between new members of the European Union Read more…
Scott Martin: In the best of times the markets in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic offer traders exposure to the frontier between oil-rich Russia and the euro zone. But lately, funds focused on these stocks have suffered on both sides of the border. Read more…
Ron Rowland: ETFs give you a better way to invest in many different assets — and especially international markets. Parts of the world that were “off-limits” to individual investors just a few years Read more…
Joseph Hogue: Whether ECB President Mario Draghi will be proven correct when he said the recent LTRO issuances were an “unquestionable success,” the injection of liquidity into the system is definitely making its way around the region. However, the flows are probably not going where Mr. Draghi would Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Investors have been gradually increasing their risk appetite since the start of 2012 thanks to improving economic data and renewed optimism in the global recovery. Likewise, emerging markets are off to a strong start this year and one particular country-specific ETF has attracted serious Read more…
Emerging Money: Consistent with the laid-back cultural dynamic that so distinguishes the national character, the Reserve Bank of Australia appears to be perfectly happy with its extremely strong currency. Read more…
Adrian Ash: Take 40 trillion Yen, add another 22 trillion, and you still aren’t doing enough! Japan tipped into depression almost 20 years before everyone else, but it got no respect for blazing the trail. Its zero-rate policy also got started more than seven years before the US or Britain’s. But again it was all “too Read more…
Tim Seymour: We are big fans of the Turkish market around here, but it says something when the world’s second-biggest economy, growing at a rate of nearly 9% a year, is trading at the same Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Innovation has been a dominant theme in the ETF industry and this year, 2011, has shaped out to be perhaps the most exciting one yet. Growth is the other key ingredient for success and the exchange-traded universe has seen an abundance of new product launches; veteran issuers and 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…
Joseph Hogue: Debt auctions in Italy and Spain went fairly well last week and tensions have come down a little with lower yields in the peripheral European countries. Despite this, end-of-year Read more…
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