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The iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWZ) is up nearly 68 percent this year, easily making it one of 2016's best performing single-country exchange-traded funds, emerging markets or otherwise. Commodities And Politics Among the catalysts often cited for EWZ's resurgence are rebounding...

Contrary to public belief, Brazil's investment climate may be improving. According to Trading Economics, Brazil recorded a capital and financial account surplus of USD$1720.30 million in May of this year.   While Brazil's economy underwent a great recession last year, that...

Rebounding commodities prices and a weaker dollar have been cited as driving factors for several well-known asset classes and sectors this year. Previously downtrodden emerging markets currencies are soaring this year with plenty of help from the two aforementioned catalysts. As a result, emerging...

Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA (ADR) (NYSE: GOL) surged as much as 14 percent after JPMorgan upgraded the airline to Neutral from Underweight as the company's recent liquidity-enhancing announcements and stronger BRL (Brazilian real) "should allow for a material reduction in risk perception." "...

Shares of E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE: DD) spiked higher by 10 percent on Tuesday. DuPont announced on Monday its CEO Ellen Kullman will retire, cut its fiscal 2015 operating earnings per share guidance to around $2.75 from a previous $3.10. Vincent Andrews of Morgan Stanley...

Brazil had a tough week. The real fell more than 7 percent over the week, while the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange lost roughly 1.4 percent. Both continued to decline on Friday: the real plummeted more than 3 percent versus the U.S. dollar and the stock exchange tumbled 1.83 percent. After these...