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Chinese New Year: Make or Break for ETFs, ADRs and Closed-End Funds in China and SE-Asia — Snake Bite? (FXI, GXC, PGJ, PEK, EWH, EWT, TWN, EWS, VNM, EWM, TDF, BIDU, DANG, RENN)

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 11:40 am

Chinese New Year is almost upon us. The new year is the Year of the Snake. Other nations with stock markets that celebrate Chinese New Year with multiday holidays include ...
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Bearish Byron Wien Leaves Many Stocks and ETFs Vulnerable in 2013

Posted: January 3, 2013 at 11:01 am

Byron Wien announced his predictions for 10 big surprises for 2013 this week to kick off the new year. Wien is now vice chairman at Blackstone Advisory Partners, and this ...
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China: World Growth Engine, or Still the Short of a Lifetime?

Posted: December 12, 2012 at 9:51 am

China may be the world’s growth engine and the world’s manufacturer, but some still consider it the short-sell of a lifetime. There is also very rarely any middle ground on ...
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Chinese Equity Breakout as S&P Signals Negative Credit Metrics for China

Posted: October 12, 2012 at 12:27 pm

China has been trying to hold its own. The obvious growth shows how dependent the nation is upon exporting finished goods to the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Standard & Poor's ...
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When Closed-End Funds Buy Back Shares (CHN, FXI)

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 12:15 pm

The China Fund, Inc. (NYSE: CHN) is a closed-end mutual fund rather than an exchange-traded fund.  It also has traded in a sloppy manner where the fund often tracks its ...
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ETFs Winning & Losing Fund Flows Into Year-End (GLD, XLV, FXI, SPY, XLK, EFA)

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm

TrimTabs is showing what many investors might have expected.  After such a volatile year in the stock market, investors are seeking safety in the nearly no-income offered by bond funds and ...
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Eight Countries With Credit Ratings Set to Rise Next Year

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 12:14 pm

It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized "AAA" rating, the threat of downgrades ...
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Special Report: Chart Deaths of BRIC & Emerging Markets (EEM, VWO, EWZ, BRF, ECH, CH, RSX, TRF, CEE, EPI, PIN, IFN, IIF, FXI, GXC, TAO, HAO, CHN, TDF)

Posted: October 3, 2011 at 6:46 pm

The old saying goes, "When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold."  But what about when Europe gets the flu and when China and India drink ...
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Chanos Keeps Shorting China… and Winning (FXI, GXC, TAO, CHN, TDF, MPEL)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 7:56 am

Fund manager Jim Chanos has been pretty vocal about the risks in China from its economy to its debt levels to its real estate market.  He goes on to say ...
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Many ETFs and Mutual Funds at Risk over Chinese Bank Stock Holdings (FXI, GXC, PGJ, MCHFX, FHKAX, TCWAX)

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 8:01 am

Estimates of the amount of Chinese bank lending total nearly $7.5 trillion. Of that total about 30%, or $2.2 trillion, has been lent through a central government program that puts ...
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Swapping BRICs, ETF Funds Leaving China and Going to Brazil (FXI, EWZ, GXC, HAO, BKF)

Posted: July 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Fears of inflation and increased oversight into accounting practices are causing US investors to pull funds from China-focused ETFs, with a parallel interest in putting more funds into Brazilian equity ...
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Goldman Sachs, Almost Schizophrenic in China and Oil Calls (GS, BNO, FXI)

Posted: May 24, 2011 at 2:06 pm

If you think Wall Street is confusing and even think that it is a game loaded against the little guys, then today is another day that will fuel more to ...
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ETF Watch: Chinese ETFs Immune to Rate Hikes (FXI, GXC, HAO, YAO)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm

China keeps tightening its monetary policy to fight inflation.  The Chinese central bank has raised rates four times and has taken other monetary tightening initiatives, but the moves are only putting ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (AAPL, BP, DANG, EMC, XOM, DVN, GENZ, JCG, RVBD, SNN, VOD, WMT, FXI, MUB, PZA)

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 1:11 pm

There are many new characters in this week's installment of "The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead."  We have tracked news and added color on each where applicable.  The cast ...
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ETF Watch: What Happened In iShares MSCI Taiwan Index? (EWT, TWN, TFC, FXI)

Posted: April 29, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Today was one of the strangest days ever in the iShares MSCI Taiwan Index (NYSE: EWT) ETF.  In fact, you rarely ever see such trading action as we saw today ...
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