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Investors Turn To ETF Put Options To Short The Emerging Markets Bubble
“Which emerging markets are good short candidates right now? China is one big economic bubble waiting to burst, and it will take companies and markets down with it when it does (and not just its own)....
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State Street Set To Begin Trading The SPDR S&P Russia ETF (RBL) Today March 11th
State Street is set to begin trading the “SPDR S&P Russia ETF” (RBL) today March 11th. The SPDR S&P Russia ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses,...
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Rethinking Geography Through ETFs (GUR, GMF, IEV, VPL)
I have a tendency to look at the world through ETFs and when thinking globally, often in terms of country ETFs. I find that regional ETFs too often dilute some of the trends and ideas I am looking to...
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Surging Warsaw Puts Polish ETFs In Focus (EPOL, PLND, ESR, GUR)
Over the past few years, many investors have taken a closer look at emerging markets in order to power their portfolios in a sluggish economic environment. A great deal of interest has been seen in the...
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Hungary ETFs Face Uphill Battle (ESR, GUR)
Recently, credit rating agency Fitch downgraded Hungary’s foreign currency credit rating to just above junk status, fueling concerns of the overall health of the nation’s economy and what lies ahead....
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ETFs For This: BRICs Are So Yesterday – Get Ready For CIVETS (EZA, GUR, TUR,...
Certain investment themes become so well known that they merit their own acronym. One of those is the BRICs – shorthand for the popular emerging market countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. There...
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Study: ETFs Are Honing In On Their Benchmarks (AGG, GUR)
As the ETF world has continued to grow over the past few years, funds have stretched beyond the typical benchmarks such as the S&P 500 or the DJIA and into more exotic or extensive indexes. While...
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ETF Daily News: Monday, April 18th ETF Movers (CVOL, VIXY, VXX, GRN, LD, GUR)
In trading on Monday, the C-Tracks Citi Volatility Index TR ETN (NYSE:CVOL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.64% on the day. Also up on the day are the ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF...
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The Week Ahead: Emerging Markets ETF Flows Are In Reverse (EEM, RSX, EZA,...
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 break...
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Go Non-Union: Invest In Emerging Europe (UUP, GUR, ESR, PLND)
Sara Nunnally: It was a very long two weeks… Not only was I watching the value of my dollar slip away, I was drowning my sorrows in Czech beer with a bunch of Canadians. Needless to say, I woke up on...
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Italy’s Unique Risk Has Bankers and Traders Alike In Suspense (IEV, EWI, VGK,...
Sara Mareno: As night covers Europe (NYSEARCA: IEV), markets worldwide are hoping the lights stay on in Rome. A colorful figure, Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds responsibility for...
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A List Of The Top Ten (10) European Regional ETFs (VGK, IEV, EZU, FEZ, FEU, GUR)
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, and nearly 40 years in the investment...
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Go Non-Union: Invest In Emerging Europe (PLND, GUR, GSR, UUP, FXE)
Sara Nunnally: It’s happened… We finally see some real pushback against the euro from one of the EU’s newest members: the Czech Republic. On Dec. 15, three months after I first wrote today’s “Best Of”...
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Easy European Central Bank Money Makes Its Way To Eastern Europe (EPOL, TUR,...
Joseph Hogue: Whether ECB President Mario Draghi will be proven correct when he said the recent LTRO issuances were an “unquestionable success,” the injection of liquidity into the system is...
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Finding The Right Eastern European ETFs (GUR, ESR, TUR, UGEM, HGEM, PLND, POLE)
Scott Martin: In the best of times the markets in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic offer traders exposure to the frontier between oil-rich Russia and the euro zone. But lately, funds focused on...
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Emerging Market ETFs: 6 Surprising Standouts In A Hectic Month (GUR, SCIF,...
Daniela Pylypczak: Throughout the past couple of years, investors have witnessed just how far and how deep the Euro Zone’s debt crisis has spread throughout the global financialmarket. As looming...
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Fund Flows To Emerging Markets: A Threat or An Opportunity? (GAF, GUR, ILF, GMF)
Joseph Hogue: The Bank for International Settlements has an interesting report out comparing lending to emerging markets in 2011 against the environment after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008....
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