EWY has returned 37% so far in 2026, nearly tripling off its one-year low, and the question for retirees is whether this is a recovery worth owning or a cyclical bounce that…
Michael Williams A highly-leveraged ETF, Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3X ETF (NYSEARCA:KORU) dropped 26% in the past week, pulling back from $602.99 to $446.91, even as the fund sits on a staggering…
South Korea’s KOSPI just posted one of the most dramatic single-day collapses in its history, dropping 12% overnight. That follows the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSE: EWY) falling 10.3% in yesterday’s…
It’s quite rare to see a big-name hedge fund picking up shares of an ETF, but whenever it does happen, there may be hints as to where opportunities may lie within a…
Joey Frenette The case for diversifying internationally was strengthened in 2025 after a number of non-U.S. stock markets outpaced the S&P 500 by a wide margin. Undoubtedly, the U.S. equity market, which has gotten…
It’s been a turbulent past couple of weeks, but the S&P 500 is poised to finish the year with some historically decent gains intact. At the time of this writing, the S&P…
If there was one issue which may have created uncertainty around the credit ratings of South Korea, it was the death of dictator Kim Jong-Il in North Korea. We just recently featured South…
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 hangs over…
If there is one of several regions which can erupt rapidly, it is around the Korean Peninsula. The death of Kim Jong-il (that photo is a tribute photo for him) after a heart attack…
The news was expected to be setting up for headlines such as “No rate hikes from the Bank of England nor from the European Central Bank” this morning. South Korea changed that…
War and the fear of war create uncertainty for financial markets. If there is one place in the world that you can count on uncertainty rising from throughout the years it is…
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