China

China’s economy over the past several decades has been the growing at a double digit pace. Recently the rate of growth is slowing below those levels as signs of point to perhaps a more serious slowdown. Recent statistics on industrial growth have fallen much more than expected. Property speculation...

Guggenheim BRIC ETF (NYSE: EEB) has attempted to combine the four popular single country markets into one handy ETF. It has become popular for those perhaps unable to buy all four individual country funds or find it more difficult to cherry-pick one or two for inclusion to their portfolios....

By Wayne Ferbert, Minyanville At my firm, we regularly invest in international markets -- both emerging and developed countries. We most often use two ETFs: the iShares Emerging Markets Index (NYSE: EEM) and the iShares MSCI Index (NYSE: EFA). We use these because they both offer strong options...

As Brazil, Russia, India and China, the BRIC countries, advance full-steam ahead, Jim O’Neill’s decade-old prediction for this group of only four countries remains prescient. BRIC is growing an economy that will surpass the combined size of the great G7 economies by 2035. Very little is said,...

The Mosaic Company reported mixed fiscal third quarter results for 2012 on Thursday, which, as expected, missed investor estimates on seasonal volatility and economic uncertainty that caused deferred buying from risk-averse buyers. But investors are paying even more attention to the company's...

VIPSHOP, the online discount retailer in China went public today under the VIPS ticker symbol over at the New York Stock Exchange, selling 11 million shares at $6.50 each, thus raising $71.5 million. It is the first Chinese public offering in a long while, and follows a wide controversy of Chinese-...

For the past few years, many have argued that a great currency trade was setting up: buy the Chinese yuan against the US dollar. The trading thesis generally goes like this: the Chinese currently suppress the value of the yuan to such a degree so as to make their exports the most competitive....

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) has just reported strong earnings growth for the third quarter of fiscal 2012, beating bottom-line expectations while coming in slightly lighter on the top-line on the back of positive-to-mixed operational trends across its business segments. FedEx reported diluted...

Goldman Sachs' (NYSE: GS) rockstar Jim O'Neill reinforces his ongoing thesis that Greece-focused histeria is tedious at best. While he believes European Monetary System concerns are valid and sovereign debt issues will be there for the foreseeable future, he thinks Greece is small peanuts as long...

A forecast out Thursday from research firm IDC says China will become the world's largest market for smartphone shipments in 2012 -- jumping ahead of the U.S., which holds the No. 1 spot. IDC also predicts that Brazil and India will move into the top 5 country rankings for smartphone shipments by...