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Luxury spending bellwether Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF), which recently announced its 12th dividend increase in the past 11 years, is scheduled to report its first-quarter fiscal 2013 results Tuesday, May 28, before the markets open. Growth has slowed in recent quarters for luxury retail stocks...

One of this week's most prominent themes has been speculation that the Federal Reserve is either going to wind down or soon end its $85 billion per month asset-buying activities. Not surprisingly, that has not been particularly good news for U.S. stocks and other riskier assets. Beyond the...

Geopolitical concerns and perceived liquidity risk are among the issues that have kept investors from embracing Middle East stocks and ETFs in recent years. A prime example of a market hampered by those issues is Egypt. The Market Vectors Egypt ETF (NYSE: EGPT), the lone ETF devoted exclusively...

Perhaps Japanese stocks and the corresponding ETFs had things too good and too easy to start 2013. The abridged version of the story goes like this: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe garnered more confidence among average Japanese citizens than his recent predecessors, the yen tumbled against the U.S....

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Friday May 24, 2013. The Global X Silver Miners ETF (NYSE: SIL) is worth a look. Obvious plays of the day: iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (NYSE: EWJ) and the Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLU). Keep an eye on the Vanguard Consumer Staples...

On Thursday, China sneezed, Japan caught the cold, and ETFs tracking a plethora of global markets closed lower. Predictably, emerging markets sagged with the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (NYSE: EEM) closing down. Developed...

Shares of Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) were trading up around 13 percent late on Thursday after the company released its fiscal first-quarter earnings results after the closing bell on Wednesday. The small-cap company was devastated in the wake of the financial crisis and the stock has never...

Following Thursday's savage plunge that saw Japanese stocks notch their worst one-day performance in more than two years, it is no surprise that ETFs focused on the world's third-largest economy are tumbling today. That group includes the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (NYSE: DXJ), an ETF...

On June 11, index provider MSCI (NYSE: MSCI) will announce its annual market reclassification review. Results of that review will be significant for investors in scores of emerging and frontier markets equities and ETFs. South Korea and Taiwan are still under consideration for a promotion to...

The 2008 financial crisis took a large toll on thousands of U.S. businesses as plunging demand caused sales and net income to fall off a cliff across most industries. Jewelry retailer Zale (NYSE: ZLC) was among the hardest hit publicly traded companies with the stock falling from above $30 in...