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Carolyn Pairitz: Emerging market ETFs have seen a surge in interest in recent years, as U.S.-based investors have embraced this asset class as a core components of any long-term, growth-focused strategy. With most developed markets still trying to recover from the financial crisis, Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: As bullish euphoria following the announcement of QE3 at home faded away throughout the week, so too did trading activity. Major equity benchmarks have been grinding along sideways as looming eurozone debt issues coupled with pre-election Read more…
Eric Dutram: As worries continue to grow over many developing nations around the globe, some investors have decided to pull back and put assets to work in safer markets like the United States. This trend and the general risk off atmosphere as of late has pushed Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: There is a good reason investors have been clamoring to invest in emerging markets (NYSEARCA:VWO). With the West spinning its wheels, the truth is there’s a good deal of Read more…
Michael Johnston: UBS continued to expand its lineup of monthly leveraged ETPs this month, debuting a product that is designed to deliver amplified exposure to international real estate firms. The new Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Dow Jones International Real Estate ETN (NYSEARCA:RWXL) will Read more…
Sean Geary: Investors seeking exposure to the explosion of middle class growth in frontier and emerging markets have started to turn their attention to Southeast Asia. Here are a few of the ETFs that focus on countries in this region. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Gloom Boom Doom Report publisher Marc Faber was back on Fox Business, Friday, with his latest thoughts on Greece, China, stocks, U.S. real estate, and some creative Read more…
Michael Johnston: iShares continued its torrid pace of product development with yet another first-to-market ETF, rolling out a fund targeting small cap Asian stocks excluding Japan. The new iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index Fund (NASDAQ:AXJS) is the first to specifically target Read more…
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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…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: The dog fight between Thailand’s Marc Faber and Singapore’s Jim Rogers is on. The point of contention is: Which way will commodities prices go now that China’s (NYSEARCA:FXI) bubble economy appears to be headed for some sort of economic slowdown, Read more…
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Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets have been heating up and developments on the ETF product development front has been quite active as well. A handful of new products hit the street this week, including several offerings from Invesco PowerShares in the Financials Equities space, as well as a first-to-market Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Oil prices, like stocks, took a few big hits last week. West Texas Intermediate crude last week dropped below $80 a barrel before bouncing back up to $87 a barrel this week. Meanwhile, Brent crude fell to a six-month low below $100 a barrel before climbing back to $110 a barrel this Read more…
EGShares, the only ETF issuer focused exclusively on emerging markets, announced today the introduction of another product offering exposure to equities of developing markets. The new Emerging Markets High Income Low Beta ETF (NYSE:HILO) will seek to replicate the Read more…
So far in 2011 more than 200 new exchange-traded products have debuted, taking the ETF lineup close to the 1,300 mark. Over the past several years, the exposure accessible through ETFs has become increasingly granular; while some of the new products debuting are “plain vanilla” funds Read more…
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Tim Seymour: Emerging markets funds lost $1.64 billion from their investor accounts last week, but the question for traders is now whether this is just a trickle over the wall or a more serious Read more…
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