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Michael A. Gayed: We regularly compare China, Brazil, South Korea, Taiwan, South Africa, Russia, India, Mexico, Malaysia and Indonesia against the broader Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE:VWO) to see where momentum is picking up and where it lags. Read more…
Randall Mah: Astra International (PTAIF), Indonesia’s largest auto distributor, recently reported a 30% increase in net income and is now eager to build out into other areas of the local economy. Read more…
With the global financial markets keeping undivided attention on Europe for the past few months, a quiet and potentially alarming slowdown in China has fallen under the radar. While some global markets rallied through Read more…
Eric Dutram: One of the biggest stories in the investing world over the past few years as been the rise of emerging markets. These countries continue to grow at an impressive clip and are in a much better position from a fiscal perspective than their developed market counterparts. Furthermore, the countries Read more…
Stocks posted solid gains for a second straight day but trade was light. The Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) led the advance as it posted a 2.3% gain. The S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) gained 1.8% while the S&P MidCap 400 improved by 1.6%. In a follow up to Tuesday’s impressive six percent advance, the small-cap Russell 2000 Read more…
Eric Dutram: This past week was a brutal one for equity markets as a wave of selling crushed sectors across the board. The benchmark S&P 500 index saw its value decline by nearly 6.5% on the week, marking one of the roughest five day stretches in recent memory. Generally speaking, this decline was thanks to investors Read more…
Tim Seymour: The now-infamous “twist” in the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying activities is driving money out of emerging markets ETFs and mutual funds. Read more…
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Van Eck has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Indonesia Small-Cap ETF.” The Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap Index. The Index is a rules based, modified capitalization weighted, float adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of Read more…
Eric Dutram: While 2011 may have gotten off to a good start for many equity markets, a summer slowdown has hit stocks across the globe. Worries over the fallout from a downgrade of American debt have now shifted to concerns over more stimulus either by the Federal Reserve or by Read more…
Tim Seymour: Rich Ross at Auerbach Grayson is a highly decorated technician who has been nailing his calls lately. He now sees choppy sailing ahead for the emerging markets group. Read more…
Ed Kuczma is a member of the Investment Team at Van Eck Global, a firm that has a number of ETFs targeting various corners of the market both in equities and in bonds. Currently, Ed specializes in the EMEA region, doing analysis on the various markets that make up these emerging regions. Read more…
Thomas Carreno: I have posted the chart of the Jakarta Composite before some time ago and I did so because I thought it was eye opening that a market index can do a 62% correction and then blast higher almost non stop going all the way back up to the old high and then blasting out even higher as Read more…
Kevin Grewal: As many investors seek to find the next emerging opportunity, the Asian nation of Indonesia may be the answer to their prayers. Read more…
Global investors are catching on to the fascinating story of Indonesia. As Asia’s fifth-largest economy and its third most-populous nation – with 240 million people – more than half of that population is under the age of 30. And today, thanks largely to a boom in commodities, Indonesia’s economy is Read more…
To animal lovers, a civet is a cat-like creature that kind of looks like a cross between a leopard, a raccoon and a weasel. And it’s unfortunately known for its funky smell. To investors, “CIVETS” is an acronym for Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and Read more…
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