Emerging Markets

ETF Outlook for Friday, July 25, 2014 The three major indices closed yesterday essentially flat, each within 0.1 percent of its Wednesday close. The ho-hum day was a battle among bears who cheered some weak housing data and bulls who saw more evidence that second quarter earnings are stronger...

ETF Outlook for Friday, June 27, 2014 (UNG, ECON, BIZD, BJK) U.S. Natural Gas ETF (NYSE: UNG) After the inventory numbers were released yesterday the price of natural gas tumbled. UNG closed the session down 2.7 percent at a new one-month low. The ETF looks set to test important support at the...

Paul Theron knows that South Africa is an exciting new frontier for companies. In the second half of the last decade, the region has been home to an emerging market, consumer-driven success story. Theron is the founder and principal of Vestact, an asset-management firm is based Johannesburg,...

U.S. stocks finished the week slightly lower as investors gave today's poor housing data a slack, and blame it on the weather. “Investors are willing to cut the market some slack because of the weather; I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the economy heats up as the weather warms up,” Jack...

As emerging markets continue to show signs of struggling, investment banks are pulling the plug on some of their operations. Bloomberg reported investment banks such as UBS (NYSE: UBS)and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) have spent the past three years re-thinking their plans in India. The investment...

U.S. stocks fell steeply on Friday as Wall Street recorded its first monthly loss since August. Investors have plenty on their plate to worry about from emerging markets, an earning season failing to ignite excitement and a lackluster consumer confidence that is being felt by many retailers who...

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as investors and traders focused on the positives. Data showed that the economy expanded in the fourth quarter as consumer spending gained traction. "Today the market is focused on the good news, or the developed world," Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at...

The primary point of Wednesday's missive, Is There Really a Crisis in Emerging Markets?, was that although stocks are off their recent highs and things have become much more volatile this year, the charts of the greenback, gold and bonds did not seem to confirm that the U.S. stock market...

Benzinga reported on Tuesday on a growing number of Wall Street banks that have turned negative on emerging markets. Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) advise their clients to avoid exposure across multiple assets classes in emerging markets such as...

Emerging markets no longer provide some of the world's most compelling investment opportunities. According to several top-tier Wall Street research firms such as Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM), investors should put their money to work elsewhere. Goldman Sachs is forecasting...

Tuesday, Chicago Fed boss Charles Evans said that 2013 growth will likely fall short of expectations. In what is clearly a growing sign of Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) ability to deliver news, the Chicago Fed live-tweeted Evan's speech which was given to Illinois bankers. Most notable was: @...

The emerging markets have not been the hottest place to invest past year as they began to lag the developed markets. The iShares MSCI Emerging Market ETF (NYSE: EEM) is down six percent in 2013 versus a gain of 16 percent for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY). Individual emerging market...

There is no shortage of emerging markets that can be considered cheap or inexpensive when traditional valuation metrics are applied. Nor is there a dearth of developing world equity markets that are currently in tailspins. Interestingly, not all slumping emerging markets are inexpensive on...

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...

Futures Flat On Relaxed China Fears, Emerging Market Rebound U.S. equity futures were flat in early pre-market trade as services data out of China showed that the economy continued to chug along at low levels in July. Also, easing fears over imminent Federal Reserve tapering led to rebounds in...