Emerging Markets

India Fund Offers International Investment Alternative

Global uncertainty may hold sway right now, but India is at the forefront of up-and-coming markets. Here's an...

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Chinese Funds’ First-Half Rise Outstrips Alternatives

Rounding out the category of the top three emerging market exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the first half of...

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Small Cap Stocks Outperform Most Other Chinese Funds

The Chinese market was very strong in the first half of 2015, so it is no surprise that...

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China Fund Awaits a Market Bounce

This week’s ETF Talk moves on to another new category of top-performing exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The funds of...

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Just Blame It on ‘Global Economic Developments’ 

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged Thursday. Though a slight majority of pundits were predicting that the...

The Global Stock Market Washout

Last week, I discussed how BRIC investing went bust. Well, as it turns out, I may have unfairly...

How The BRICs Came Down to Earth

The popularity of the acronym “BRICs” -- which stands for the fast-growth economies of Brazil, Russia, India and...

Why This May Be the Best Week of the Year to Pile into Stocks

What a week it has been… During the course of the past five sessions, the S&P 500 has...

Big Gains Come in All Sorts of Packages

Investing is a harsh taskmaster. Each day, cold, hard numbers tell you what you got right and what...

This Fund is an Alternative Way to Invest in Emerging Markets

Today we’ll discuss an emerging-market you may find appealing -- the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM).