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Emerging Market Rout Deepens With No End In Sight
A rout in emerging market (EM) stocks and currencies has deepened amid a series of devaluation events, oil prices at a six-year low and continuing to plunge amid a global glut, concerns about the U.S. Fed hiking interest rates, and growth concerns in China. Indeed, last week was a rough week for emerging markets: EM currencies … Continue reading
South Korean ETF Weekly Outflow Reaches Most On Record Amid Tensions With North, EM Rout
The largest exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks South Korean equities, The iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, just saw the largest weekly outflow since its inception back in 2000 as a rout in emerging markets deepens, oil prices continue to fall, concerns about the U.S. Fed hiking interest rates, and as tensions grow in the Korean peninsula between North and South Korea. … Continue reading
South Korea And China Sign Free-Trade Agreement: Will It Help To Avoid Growth Contraction?
“South Korea and China signed a free-trade deal on Monday that will remove tariffs on more than 90 percent of goods over two decades,” Business Mirror reports. The agreement covers 22 areas, including finance and online commerce. However, rice and autos have been excluded from the document. The deal should boost South Korea’s GDP by 1 percentage … Continue reading
North Korea Ready For Seven-Day Nuclear War With South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un approved the plan of the asymmetric seven-day war with South Korea. To capture the neighboring state, the North Korean Army will need only seven days – the time period that would be enough not to give the United States an opportunity to get involved in the conflict. Kim Jong-un ordered … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight (19-Dec-2014)
By ETFalpha Global Emerging Markets expressed as iShares MSCI EM ETF (EEM) have been remaining in both negative trend and momentum. However, if the recent market bounce appears to be sustainable during the week commencing December, 21st we may see momentum turing into positive territory. Assuming that’s the case we would be recommending to increase … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight
By ETFalpha Contact(at)ETFalpha.uk What an interesting week for global stocks and Emerging Markets. The levels of volatility jumped significantly with the VIX Index reading increased by more than 78% for the week! Both Emerging and Frontier Markets lost around 6% predominantly due to plummeting oil and generally commodity prices. Technically things look awful as both … Continue reading
Your Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation (Iconographic)
Emerging and Frontier Markets are an asset class itself these days and offer investors amazing opportunities. The challenge is to harness the amount of volatility relatively bigger versus the other equity asset classes. Also the universe of ETFs in that space is pretty big and any successful asset allocation approach has to follow a well … Continue reading
Japan’s Snap Election Won’t Ease Abe’s Woes
By Corey Wallace When Abe dissolved the lower house on 21 November 2014 and called a snap election for December, top leaders in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito identified keeping 270 seats as the low-water mark, which would represent a loss of 56 seats. Given current economic conditions and the state of … Continue reading
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