Emerging Markets

ETF Talk: Are Chinese Technology Companies Future Asian Tigers?

In keeping with last week’s theme of highlighting international technology companies, today’s ETF Talk focuses on China. Indeed,...

Making Money Alert: Rebounding off Bad News

The action in the financial markets over the past week and a half has been tumultuous to say...

The Global Guru: Three ‘Can’t Lose’ Investment Bubbles that Just Popped

One of my favorite quotations is from the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who said: All truth goes through...

Eagle Eye Opener: Is Russia’s Economic Slippage Putting Putin’s Re-election at Risk; Global Market Tug-of-War Slightly Favors Bulls Today

If you’re an investor who has made a tidy profit off of Russia’s “rebirth” the last couple of...

ETF Talk: Technology Goes Global

Countries in Asia and Europe are joining the United States as drivers of technology innovation. Indeed, technology advances...

Making Money Alert: Volatility is the Precursor to Correction

The fear trade is back on Wall Street. With the events of the past three days, it’s no...

The Global Guru: Why this is a Very Strange Market… and My “Hedge Portfolio”

It is strange time in global financial markets -- stranger than most investors realize. On the one hand,...

Daily Data Flow: Stocks up after Last Week’s Drop; Crowdfunding Growing, Bank Lending Decreasing; Grecian Banks in Need of State Help

In the aftermath of 2013's biggest weekly drop for the S&P 500, stocks rose today as investors anticipated...

ETF Talk: Chinese Energy ETF Offers Juice

We finish our series on energy sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with today’s look at a fund that focuses...

Making Money Alert: The Buy-and-Hold Grandfather’s Warning

When Jack Bogle speaks, the market usually stops and listens. That’s because the grandfather of buy-and-hold investing, and...