Emerging Markets

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...

Over the past 10 weeks alone, $18 billion fled from Asian EMEs according to Morgan Stanley. This drastic outflow of funds was oddly reminiscent of the Asian financial crisis of 1997. The MSCI emerging-markets index hit its lowest close in a year at 883.34 on June 24. This was its widest...

It may not be entirely safe to swim in emerging markets waters again, but it is clear ETFs tracking developing world economies are acting less bad. Following savage declines at the hands of tumbling currencies, slowing Chinese growth and investors' repudiation of developing world bonds, some...

One of this year's most downtrodden and vilified asset classes is emerging markets bonds. High-yield or investment-grade. Dollar-denominated or local currency issues. It does not matter. Practically all of the ETFs that offer investors exposure to these bonds have been repudiated due to, among...

Sunday night, the global strategy team at Credit Suisse released a note highlighting a whole a basket of stocks for the recent move higher in the yen, and for what they see as the next large leg in a secular devaluation of the currency. The note followed the bank's core view that they see the USD...

Jim O' Shaughnessy, founder, chairman and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, provided his strategies for investing in emerging markets on CNBC'S Squawk Box Thursday morning. When judging an emerging market for investment, O' Shaughnessy looks at three things quantitatively . "We look at...

Futures Slightly Higher as Global Shares Drop U.S. equity futures traded slightly higher in early pre-market trade despite weakness elsewhere around the world. Better than expected manufacturing PMIs across the eurozone are helping to prop assets despite sustained weakness in emerging markets...

No Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). No Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). No Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) or Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), either. Those technology and Internet darlings, along with other noteworthy, similar U.S.-based fare, do not populate emerging markets ETFs with a heavy bias to the technology sector. That has...

When it comes to emerging markets ETFs, knowing what countries are left out of or only have minimal exposure in a particular fund is often as important as knowing what nations dominate that ETF. At the equity level, ETFs with sizable weightings to the largest emerging markets have disappointed...

The proverbial "they" often say "It is not what you know, it is who you know." That phrase has plenty of meaning in everyday life, but, believe it or not, it can also be applied to the world of exchange traded funds. Specifically, the saying can be applied directly to select diversified emerging...

With the first quarter almost in the books, it is fair to say that one of the more prominent ETF themes in the first three months of the year has been disappointment at the hands of diversified emerging markets ETFs. Not to pick on the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (NYSE: EEM), but...

Reports Wednesday showed that Standard Chartered Bank may face up to $700 million in fines from a New York banking regulator. The news comes just days after it was revealed that the New York banking regulator was investigating the British Bank for funneling transactions into Iran, breaking new U.S...

It was an excellent week for U.S. equities. Slowing growth in the world's largest economy stoked speculation about central bank easing, and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said he would do everything in his power to save the beleaguered euro. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce...