Leveraged ETF

Brazil is quickly becoming a world player. With a population of 190 million it certainly has the population and room to grow into a world super power. Thus, it is often in the same sentence as Russia, India and China (BRIC). But like all economies which are leading the world economy, it has an abundance [...]

Unless you have been living under a rock, you might have noticed that Egypt is in chaos. While it is not one of the major economic powers, it plays a major role in the price of crude oil as it lies right next to the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is an important waterway that [...]

True, emerging markets were not hurt as bad during the global economic recession as their Western counterparts. Emerging economies had the benefit of not getting involved in some of the fancy financial instruments that Wall Street was selling. True, emerging economic generally do not have leveraged balance sheets and generally have enough cash on hand [...]

Blackrock, owner of the iShares family of exchange traded funds launched the iShares MSCI Russia Capped Index Fund (ERUS). A new Russia ETF aimed at tracking a basket of 28 Russian stocks. As stated in a previous article, Russia has plenty of energy and material company’s that make the 12th largest economy attractive despite its [...]

It is no secret Europe as a whole is in trouble. While the U.S. economy is sluggish, things are a bit different when a whole region/continent is in trouble. While Spain, Greece, Portugal and to an extent Italy have been getting all the media attention, other countries like Latvia, Belgium and Hungary have huge amounts [...]

Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) continue to make headlines as their economies continue to expand while many of the Western economies continue to be sluggish. Also, many of the firm’s are looking to expand by taking over established companies with brand names. Recently, Brazilian (Brazil ETF) beef giant JBS SA recently announced it is [...]

The “I” in BRIC received a lot of attention lately as President Obama paid visit to the 2nd most populated country on Earth. Several headlines mentioned that Obama has called India’s economy as “emerged” as opposed to an “emerging” economy. While some of the headlines might seem as political talk, it is still a country [...]

No doubt institutional investors and retail investors are looking towards to emerging markets to hopefully give their portfolio a boost.  Domestic equity markets have been about flat in the past decade while emerging markets and their economies have outperformed the United States by a significant margin. The trend is expected to continue considering some of [...]

Looking back at the Russia ETF article, I couldn’t help but notice the few number of Russian ETFs there exist today. Especially considering Russia is one of the BRIC countries and is projected to be a top 5 economy . It is also a country rich of natural resources such as oil & gas. I [...]

As part of the BRIC countries, India ETFs are often looked at to get exposure to the four countries. For individual investors, ETFs offer exposure to the growth and potential BRIC countries should have in the short and long run. The thing about ETFs that are in demand, for example BRIC countries, is the multiple [...]