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Report: Auto Industry Must Look Beyond 'BRIC' Nations to New, Emerging Markets
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 2:33pm | 524Read More...Think there are no investment worlds left to conquer? A major global management group suggests you think outside of the box – or more specifically, beyond the BRICs – especially when it comes to rising automotive markets. A report released Tuesday by The Boston Consulting Group says what it...
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Inside Why Some Emerging Markets ETFs Are Cheap
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 7:24am | 908Read More...It has been noted time again this year that stocks in select emerging markets are trading at substantial discounts to historical norms. Over the past month, the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: EEM), the two largest ETFs by assets...
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3 ETFs For A BRIC Bounce
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 12:20pm | 784Read More...Emerging markets investors not residing in caves or under large rocks know at least one thing about ETFs this year: The funds offering exposure to the BRIC nations have been dismal performers. In the fight for the best BRIC ETF among the four major country-specific funds are the iShares China...
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Brazil ETF Gaining Technical Momentum
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 3:41pm | 526Read More...To put it delicately, the fundamental outlook on Brazilian equities has been murky at best this year. Brazil's benchmark index, the Ibovespa, has been one of the worst-performing major global benchmarks this year as a plunging real, slack commodities demand and anti-government protests have...
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Low Valuations Don't Buffer Russia From JP Morgan Downgrade
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 11:16am | 716Read More...Among global investors, one thing that Russian stocks are known are a tendency to trade at valuations that are low compared to the broader emerging markets universe. However, Russia's inexpensive equities were not enough to prevent JP Morgan from downgrading the "R" in the famous BRIC acronym...
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CAPPT: 2013's Top-Performing EM ETF Acronym
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 2:00pm | 904Read More...Just about a year ago, to little hoopola, a new emerging markets acronym was coined to compete with more popular fare such as BRIC, CIVETS and MIST. That acronym is CAPPT for Chile, Argentina, Peru, the Philippines and Thailand. Admittedly, Argentina, a frontier market, was included more out of...
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Barron's Recap (1/5/12): Low-Risk Income Winners
Saturday, January 5, 2013 - 3:36pm | 875Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: eight categories of low-risk income growth opportunities, what the fiscal cliff deal means for investors, and the prospects for Delta Air Lines and the BRIC countries. Cover Story "Income Winners" by Andrew Bary. There are still plenty of ways to earn up to six...
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When the IMF is Hit by BRICS
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 3:50pm | 823Read More...A few months ago the BRIC countries - with South Africa, and together representing 43 percent of the world's population and 18 percent of the world's GDP - met in New Delhi for their fourth annual convention. In this meeting of five countries, which together attract more than half of total global...
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MSCI: South Korea Still Emerging, Greece Could Be On Its Way (EWY, EWT, GREK)
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 7:01pm | 837Read More...MSCI (NYSE: MSCI), a firm with indexes tracked by dozens of developed and emerging market ETFs, said that its MSCI Greece Index has been added to the review list for potential reclassification to emerging markets status. In the report, MSCI stated, "[t]he MSCI Greece Index is structurally no...
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The Powerhouse of New Economic Growth (EEB)
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 11:08am | 1335Read More...Guggenheim BRIC ETF (NYSE: EEB) has attempted to combine the four popular single country markets into one handy ETF. It has become popular for those perhaps unable to buy all four individual country funds or find it more difficult to cherry-pick one or two for inclusion to their portfolios....
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China: the White Elephant Versus the Dragon
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 1:49pm | 1127Read More...As Brazil, Russia, India and China, the BRIC countries, advance full-steam ahead, Jim O’Neill’s decade-old prediction for this group of only four countries remains prescient. BRIC is growing an economy that will surpass the combined size of the great G7 economies by 2035. Very little is said,...
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Jim O'Neill: Emerging Markets No Longer Emerging But Growing
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 10:30am | 253Read More..."The world is new, and the countries driving it are not the ones of past generations," Jim O'Neill, Head of Global Asset Management for Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) told CNBC in an exclusive interview from the firm's Summit in New York. Having coined the term BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), he...
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El-Erian: Emerging Economies to Resist US, European "Second Bests"
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 11:07am | 458Read More...PIMCO's CEO and co-CIO Mohamed El-Erian has sounded bells on what he believes are fundamental compromises that could thwart progress on the continued world crisis. In an article appearing on Project-Syndicate.org, Dr. El-Erian refers to two areas where the United States and Europe may be colluding...
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Jim O'Neill: China Produces a New Greece Every 11.5 Weeks
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 8:44am | 459Read More...Goldman Sachs' (NYSE: GS) rockstar Jim O'Neill reinforces his ongoing thesis that Greece-focused histeria is tedious at best. While he believes European Monetary System concerns are valid and sovereign debt issues will be there for the foreseeable future, he thinks Greece is small peanuts as long...
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Five Angry Elephants
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 5:19pm | 1226Read More...Robert Hockett What is by far most remarkable about discussions of the Eurozone's difficulties over the past twenty-four months is what goes unremarked. At least five angry elephants, siblings all, stand in the room stomping beside most of the commentators - especially those who congratulate...
