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Stocks with the quality designation are, broadly speaking, less volatile than their lower quality peers, dividend payers and raisers and prolific cash generators. Usually, quality stocks are less bad during volatile markets and that trait explains why the iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (...

The Ishares Msci Turkey Inv Market Index Fd (NYSE: TUR) has recently had a spotty record of outperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. For the six years ended 2015, the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF outpaced the benchmark emerging markets gauge in just three years. The lone Turkey ETF is off to a...

The reality is that finding anything resembling a bright spot among emerging markets exchange-traded funds these days is becoming an increasingly difficult task. That task is even more difficult when evaluating the largest emerging markets. China just posted its lowest GDP growth in a quarter of a...

Over 500 exchange-traded funds, nearly a third of the entire U.S. ETF universe, hit 52-week lows on Wednesday, and plenty of emerging markets ETFs were part of that dubious group. The Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (NYSE: EGPT), the lone ETF dedicated to North Africa's largest economy, was part...

For more than 17 years, exchange-traded funds investors and traders alike knew just nine sector SPDRs, but that changed in October with the debuts of Financial Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (The)(NYSE: XLFS) and Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (The) (NYSE: XLRE). The New SPDRs State Street...

Pictured above: Saudi investor monitors the stock exchange at the Saudi Stock Exchange, or Tadawul, on June 15, 2015 in the capital Riyadh. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia allowed foreign investors access to its stock market for the first time on Monday. But capital...

Despite China's efforts to make its markets more accessible to foreign investors, index provider Msci Inc (NYSE: MSCI) said this week it would hold off on including the nation's "A" shares in its Emerging Markets Index (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM)). Beijing recently...

On Tuesday, JMP Securities reinstated coverage of beleaguered American Realty Capital Properties Inc (NASDAQ: ARCP) at Market Perform, noting "the risk-reward is balanced at current levels." Shares of ARCP had closed at $10.08 per share on the day the JMP note was released,...

MSCI (NYSE: MSCI), the provider of some of the most widely used international indices for ETFs, has unveiled its own take on the "Beyond BRICs" theme with the launch of the MSCI Beyond BRIC Index. As the name implies, the MSCI Beyond BRIC Index excludes Brazil, Russia India and China, countries...

Most passively managed ETFs are designed to track underlying indices and most ETF investors know that. How much time investors spend studying the index an ETF tracks is another matter altogether. Aside from knowing that Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) is the largest stock in many staples...

By now, most ETF investors probably know that the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO), the largest emerging markets ETF by assets, will drop the MSCI index it currently uses in favor of an equivalent index from FTSE Group. The change, scheduled to take place next year, is noteworthy for...

On Tuesday, Vanguard rocked the exchange-traded products world by announcing it would drop MSCI (NYSE: MSCI) indexes on 22 of its funds. Pennsylvania-based Vanguard, the firm that pioneered index funds and today is the third-largest U.S. ETF sponsor, said the moves "should save millions of dollars...