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It's widely known that energy stocks aren't the place to be these. Even the blue chips are getting hammered, a fact highlighted by a decline of almost 6% in the past month for the Energy Select SPDR (NYSE: XLE). Makes sense. West Texas Intermediate oil futures are down about 15% since the start...

One emerging markets theme that investors have honed in on over the past few years is the suppose rise of the consumer. From Bangkok to Beijing to Moscow to Mumbai, the emerging markets consumer isn't just a group of people numbering in the billions, it's an investment thesis that is supposed to be...

Let's be honest: Even in this day and age of sexy smartphones, telecom stocks are pretty boring. Verizon (NYSE: VZ), the largest U.S. mobile phone carrier, was one of the three worst performing stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the first quarter. Rival AT&T (NYSE: T) has been a Dow...

The combination of emerging markets and dividends under the umbrella can be an alluring one to be sure but even as the number of emerging markets dividend funds proliferates, some are going relatively unnoticed by investors and the mainstream financial press alike. Hey, it took a while for the...

Even with some upside today, the past five trading days have been quite unkind to major emerging markets ETFs. Just a few examples of the ugliness since Thursday March 1: The Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO) is down almost 4%. The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (NYSE: EWZ) is down...

For all of January and most of February, ETFs tracking India were delivering performances that could only be characterized as stellar. Two of the ringleaders of the India ETF rally this year have been rival funds, the Market Vectors India Small-Cap ETF (NSYE: SCIF) and the EGShares India Small Cap...

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) this and Apple that. Superlatives for the largest U.S. company by market value know no bounds in 2012 and with good reason. The stock is up more than 25% year-to-date. That performance has been good for plenty of ETFs that hold the stock and others that have seen their sails...

When it comes to investing overseas, there's no shortage of cute phrases and acronyms to be applied to various groups of countries. In Europe we have the PIIGS. Of course, BRIC has become perhaps the most ubiquitous emerging markets acronym of all, though CIVETS is no slouch either. There's...

Today is one of those days where, all of a sudden, conservative plays look very attractive. When it comes to ETFs, "conservative" often means dabbling in the consumer staples arena and that often means a visit to the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLP). Or it could mean investing in...

It's no secret that the early stages of 2012 have brought favorable results for select ETFs. And there have been disappointments along the way, too. Still, it's fair to say many plain vanilla long ETFs are off to fine starts this year, but when screening for those that were up 20% or more year-to...