Doug Fabian
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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 this year is another Chinese small-cap fund, iShares MSCI China Small-Cap ETF (ECNS).
A Downright Ugly Q3
What can you say about a third quarter that witnessed the worst decline in the major domestic averages since 2011? You call that a downright ugly Q3. Just about everywhere you looked among domestic and global equities, it was easy to see a whole lot of red. The table below of the top 10 domestic […]
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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 the silver medalist for emerging-market exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in that time period was another Chinese fund: Harvest CSI 500 China A-shares Small Cap ETF (ASHS). That fund was one of the first to give foreign investors access […]
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A Yellen Turnabout on Rates?
Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve decided to leave interest rates unchanged, citing recent global economic and financial developments that “may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term.” Fast-forward to this Thursday, Sept. 24, and we got a decidedly different spin on what’s likely to […]
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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 the next three ETF Talks fall under the emerging markets category and offer the three best-performing ETFs for the first half of the year in that category. The first and foremost is Market Vectors ChinaAMC SME-ChiNext ETF […]
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 Fed would do just that, I don’t think many had anticipated the reason why the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept rates at near-zero. Here’s the money quote, direct from yesterday’s FOMC statement: “Recent global economic and […]