BRIC

With emerging markets equities and exchange-traded funds bouncing back this year, investors in single-country ETFs have their pick of rebounding funds. That means laggards standout all the more starkly and there are some big laggards among emerging markets funds this year, notably China and India....

If you’re looking for the year’s best-performing stock market this year, look no further than Brazil, where the Bovespa stock index is up 19 percent, making the S&P 500’s 3.8 percent rise positively yawn-inspiring by comparison. When a country’s stock market has just...

Emerging markets exchange-traded funds are on the mend in 2016. Only time will tell how long that trend will last, but what is left of the emerging markets bull camp after several years of dour performances will likely reiterate that developing world equities are still nowhere close to previous...

Emerging markets currencies and equities are struggling once again this year, but the WisdomTree Indian Rupee Strategy Fund (NYSE: ICN) continues to be relatively sturdy compared to broader baskets of developing world currencies. ICN “seeks to achieve total returns reflective of both money...

The Market Vectors Russia ETF Trust (NYSE: RSX), the largest exchange-traded fund tracking Russian stocks, is the only one of the four major ETFs tracking the BRIC economies currently sporting a year-to-date gain. However, that obfuscates a six-month slide of 18.7 percent. Of the big single-country...

Many of the world's greatest investors have been willing to buy at a time when the majority of the market was turning away from a particular sector. However, such a strategy is easier said than done, as most stocks lose value following news that suggests a period of financial trouble is on the...

As measured by some of the marquee exchange-traded funds listed in New York, Indian stocks have been, to this point in 2015, disappointments. The WisdomTree India Earnings Fund (ETF) (NYSE: EPI), a $1.78 billion ETF, is off 5.8 percent year-to-date. Arguably, EPI's showing and those of...

This year's failings of the Brazil, Russia, India and China quartet – commonly known as “BRIC” – are well documented. Of the four major single-country BRIC ETFs, the average 90-day return entering Friday was a loss of over 21 percent, more than enough to qualify as a bear...

A team of analysts at Bank of America published on Tuesday their top tips for investors to follow in 2015. “Under the Chinese zodiac, 2015 is the year of the sheep, an animal considered to be gentle and calm,” the analysts wrote in their report. “Our market forecasts fit this description in that...

Emerging markets no longer provide some of the world's most compelling investment opportunities. According to several top-tier Wall Street research firms such as Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM), investors should put their money to work elsewhere. Goldman Sachs is forecasting...

Think there are no investment worlds left to conquer? A major global management group suggests you think outside of the box – or more specifically, beyond the BRICs – especially when it comes to rising automotive markets. A report released Tuesday by The Boston Consulting Group says what it...

It has been noted time again this year that stocks in select emerging markets are trading at substantial discounts to historical norms. Over the past month, the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: EEM), the two largest ETFs by assets...

Emerging markets investors not residing in caves or under large rocks know at least one thing about ETFs this year: The funds offering exposure to the BRIC nations have been dismal performers. In the fight for the best BRIC ETF among the four major country-specific funds are the iShares China...

To put it delicately, the fundamental outlook on Brazilian equities has been murky at best this year. Brazil's benchmark index, the Ibovespa, has been one of the worst-performing major global benchmarks this year as a plunging real, slack commodities demand and anti-government protests have...

Among global investors, one thing that Russian stocks are known are a tendency to trade at valuations that are low compared to the broader emerging markets universe. However, Russia's inexpensive equities were not enough to prevent JP Morgan from downgrading the "R" in the famous BRIC acronym...