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16 May 2012 at 10:45pm
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• Do Emerging Markets Win, Place or Show in Your Portfolio?
  by Frank Holmes, US Global Investors
  7 May 2012 at 8:41am
    Do Emerging Markets Win, Place or Show in Your Portfolio? By Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors Since the stock market’s gate opened at the beginning of 2012, emerging countries were off to a fast start. Stocks in Brazil, Colombia and India galloped to the lead, increasing more than 10 [...]
  
• Emerging Markets Radar (May 7, 2012)
  by US Global Investors
  7 May 2012 at 8:34am
  Emerging Markets Radar (May 7, 2012) Strengths China’s April PMI went up 20 basis points from the previous month to 53.3 percent, a fifth month-over-month increase. In spite of improved reading, the PMI is below market expectation for 53.6 percent, which caused investors to expect a bank reserve ratio cut to help economic growth. China [...]
  
• The Income Hunt: Opportunities Abroad
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  2 May 2012 at 9:55am
    by Russ Koesterich, Chief Investment Strategist, iShares Investors often have a home country bias when it comes to their fixed income portfolios, which means they are generally too reliant on domestic issues. Today, however, there are a number of reasons why investors should consider maintaining a strategic benchmark allocation to emerging market debt. In [...]
  
• BRIC Country PMI, New Business, Employment, Exports, Mfg Import Purchases
  by Richard Shaw, QVM Group
  20 Apr 2012 at 9:31am
    by Richard Shaw, QVM Group HSBC Emerging Markets PMI Index rises to 53.4 from 52.4 for 2012 Q1 Stephen King, HSBC’s Chief Economist, said: “The latest HSBC EMI underlines the relative immunity of emerging nations to the economic permafrost of the developed world. Emerging nations still have many years of economic “catch-up” ahead of [...]
  
• Q2 Markets: Don’t Expect Smooth Sailing
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  18 Apr 2012 at 9:28am
    by Russ Koesterich, iShares After a disappointing, frustrating and, at times, terrifying 2011, patient investors were rewarded with a stellar start to 2012. In the first quarter, equity markets banked a performance that would have been respectable for the full year. Developed markets gained nearly 11%, while emerging markets advanced more than 13%. However, [...]
  
• New Product: Capital International — Emerging Markets Total OpportunitiesSM
  by AdvisorAnalyst
  12 Apr 2012 at 11:10am
  Introducing: Emerging Markets Total OpportunitiesSM A lower volatility approach to emerging markets investing. First introduced to U.S. institutional investors in 2007 and European investors in 2008, this unique portfolio is now available in Canada.   (Click image or here for video) Portfolio managers Laurentius Harrer and Shaw Wagener discuss Emerging Markets Total Opportunities. Capital International [...]
  
• Time to Exit Emerging Markets? (Koesterich)
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  12 Apr 2012 at 10:59am
  “Is it time to sell emerging market equities?” That’s what many investors are wondering given that emerging market stocks are up significantly since fall lows and have modestly outperformed developed markets year to date. Despite emerging markets’ strong recent performance, I believe there are two major reasons why investors should still consider overweighting select countries [...]
  
• Emerging Markets Radar (April 9, 2012)
  by US Global Investors
  8 Apr 2012 at 12:48pm
  Emerging Markets Radar (April 9, 2012) Strengths The Hungarian PMI surged above expectations in March to 56.8, the strongest reading in the last thirteen months, reflecting the positive impact of the opening of the brand new Daimler AG plant. The Czech manufacturing PMI has also improved. Brazil’s consumer prices rose 0.21 percent in March from [...]
  
• 3 Trends to Watch for Global Investors
  by US Global Investors
  5 Apr 2012 at 9:19am
  Bloomberg announced over the weekend that China’s manufacturing grew at the fastest pace in a year. We follow the government’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) closely, as we believe it is a better indicator of China’s domestic demand than the HSBC PMI. Whereas HSBC PMI surveys 400 small and mid-sized companies, which are typically export-oriented, the [...]
  
• Does China Hold the Winning Ticket?
  by Frank Holmes, US Global Investors
  1 Apr 2012 at 11:14pm
  By Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors The odds of winning tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 175,711,536. This remote chance hasn’t stopped people from lining up to buy a ticket, as the “what-if-I-win” idea seems so thrilling. Some bears may think the odds of China being the winner among [...]
  
• Emerging Markets Radar (April 2, 2012)
  by US Global Investors
  1 Apr 2012 at 11:06pm
  Emerging Markets Radar (April 2, 2012) Strengths China’s State Council has provided Wenzhou City a policy to naturalize private lending with new forms of small financial institutions. China is in the process of launching outbound direct-investment channels and setting up regional capital markets to trade non-listed shares, technology and art products over-the-counter. Companies in Internet, [...]
  
• How to Access the EM Consumer? Think Small (Koesterich)
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  30 Mar 2012 at 10:08am
  “If everyone in China lengthened their shirt tails by a foot, the textile mills of England would spin for a year.” That’s what one Englishman reportedly said nearly two centuries ago about the prospect of selling to, and profiting from, consumers in emerging markets. Today, not much has changed. In a world in which most [...]
  
• The Emerging Market Growth Story Continues (ING)
  by Douglas Coté, Chief Market Strategist, ING Investment Management
  20 Mar 2012 at 6:19pm
    by Douglas Coté, ING We have discussed the possibility, and risk, of a hard landing in China (growth slowing to less than 7%), but what has been going on in some of the other BRIC’s like India and Brazil? Right now India is in the midst of budget negotiations which would reign in its [...]
  
• Full Steam Ahead for China Rails
  by US Global Investors
  19 Mar 2012 at 9:50am
  China’s economic engines of growth have begun to accelerate again, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the chart below. After approvals for new railroad projects spiked to a five-year high in the third quarter of 2010, the number of new plans slowed, then completely halted throughout 2011, decreasing 89 percent by value, says [...]
  
• Chart of the Week: The World’s Infrastructure Plans
  by US Global Investors
  15 Mar 2012 at 8:58am
  Demand for access to basic needs, an emerging middle class and a never-ending use of global resources—these are the primary drivers of major infrastructure projects over the next several years, says GE. In its Investor Meeting last week, the firm highlighted a few macro slides on world growth. One slide pins major global infrastructure plans [...]
  
• The Stranger Beside You — Spouses and ETFs
  by Nic Colas, ConvergEx Group
  9 Mar 2012 at 8:20am
  ETF fund flows have been a uniformly positive source of capital into U.S. risk markets in 2012. Looking a little deeper at the decidedly 'risk-on' flows, Nic Colas (of Convergex Group) notes perhaps their most provocative feature has been their high degree of net concentration.  When you look at the entire “ETF Ecosystem” of listed [...]
  
• Will Oil Continue Higher?
  by Frank Holmes, US Global Investors
  4 Mar 2012 at 10:49pm
  Will Oil Continue Heading Higher? By Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors Does it feel like it costs an arm and a leg to fill your car these days? While consumers may continue to feel the bite from higher gasoline prices, investors can use these rising prices to their advantage. Beginning [...]
  
• The Outlook for Oil
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  29 Feb 2012 at 9:13am
  “Are we headed for another oil shock and if so what are the investment implications?” Many investors are asking these questions given recent developments in the Middle East and Africa. Tensions have been escalating lately in the Middle East. Western countries have sought to contain Iran’s nuclear program by imposing new sanctions. Meanwhile, there’s a [...]
  
• The Lower Risk Countries in Europe
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  8 Feb 2012 at 9:45am
  I noted in a recent post that much of Northern Europe currently represents a good value for long-term investors. Not only are these countries especially cheap right now, but they generally have better growth prospects than other developed markets and based on current credit default swap spreads, they are perceived as less risky than their [...]
  
• Where to Find Value in Emerging Asia
  by Russ Koesterich, iShares
  7 Feb 2012 at 9:24am
  This week, I’m updating my views on some of the emerging market countries in Asia. While I’m upgrading Chinese equities from neutral to overweight, I’m downgrading South Korean and Indian stocks from neutral to underweight. Starting with China and South Korea – the two countries are both highly exposed to global growth, but China currently [...]