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Emerging market stocks rallied strongly this year in the first quarter. (You can get an easy snapshot by following the iShares MSCI Emerging Market Index (NYSEARCA:EEM). But with increasing evidence of an economic slowdown in the Read more…
Eric Dutram: For quite some time, China has been a leader in global growth. The country has gone from an economically unimportant nation to one of the leading powers Read more…
Neena Mishra: 2012 started on a strong note for the emerging economies but many of them have been hit recently by slowdown concerns. Of the giant BRIC nations, Brazil seems to be the worst hit. Read more…
Christian Magoon: Whether an owner of the largest India ETF (NYSEARCA:EPI), or the largest India ETN (NYSEARCA:INP), all India investors need to brush up on their knowledge about monsoons as Indian markets are beginning to feel the weight of a poor start Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: While most investors remain focused on the seemingly never-ending debt drama in the eurozone or the sluggish U.S. economic recovery, few are paying attention to Mexico, which has actually turned out to be a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economic environment. Read more…
Bill Luby: Stocks are firing on all cylinders today, with the S&P 500 index up more than 1.4% as I type this and most heat maps showing nothing but various shades of green. Even European stocks are strong today. With Europe’s exchanges closed for the weekend, Read more…
“If you look at Euro-related equities, in terms of their valuation, over the top of U.S. valuations, that disparity is at a 40-year low,” says Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery. While impossible to perfectly time the market, Luschini says Read more…
Diane Alter: In attempts to ease its mushrooming financial pains, Spain unveiled new austerity measures today (Wednesday) that aim to reduce 65 billion euros ($80 billion) from the public deficit by 2014. Read more…
Wells Fargo Private Bank Director of Asset Allocation and Strategy Ron Florance on where the opportunities are in frontier markets. Ron gives his opinion on ETFs for the space. Ron thinks that, despite the opportunities, passive management Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: As many economies in the Euro zone continue to teeter on the edge of default (or forced bailouts), investors around the globe remain understandably leery of any investments made within the shaky economy. After several years of painstaking Read more…
Tony Sagami: If you ask me, all our politicians on a federal level are overcompensated. Every darn one of them! Not just the elected politicians themselves, but also their armies of support staff on the payroll. Read more…
According a recent SEC filing, On July 6, 2012, the Board of Trustees of IndexIQ ETF Trust authorized an orderly liquidation of the IQ South Korea Small Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:SKOR). The Trust’s Board of Trustees determined that closing and Read more…
Christian Magoon: India ETFs charged forward last week with gains of between 4% – 9% for unleveraged products. Three of the top five performing India ETFs for the week were small cap focused. However, none of these funds took the number one spot with Read more…
I’ve only recently returned from a two-week tour of the Baltics. Of the seven countries I visited, the most interesting was Russia – and not just because of the grandeur of the Peterhof Palace or the glories of the Read more…
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