Emerging Markets

The iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (NASDAQ: TUR) jumped 11.27 percent on more than five times the average daily volume Tuesday. While that sounds impressive, the lone U.S.-listed exchange traded fund dedicated to Turkish stocks is still down nearly 19 percent over the past week. Investors are apt to pin...

Turkey's national currency, the lira, continues to trade near all-time lows against the U.S. dollar, and the country is approaching an economic crisis, the BBC reported. Here's what investors need to know Monday morning. The Analysts Jose Luis Daza, chief investment officer at...

Investors should expect a rise in cannabis IPOs in Canada — rather than the U.S. — due to the country's legalization of recreational use, according to AxisWire's 2018 Cannabis Trend Report.  What Happened Canada possesses more short-term advantages for going...

It’s the last week before the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference, the premier gathering of cannabis entrepreneurs and investors in North America, which will take place in Toronto next Thursday and Friday. El Grupo Daabon, the largest organic agriculture company in South America, ...

Russian stocks and the ruble slumped Thursday on news of fresh sanctions against the country by the Trump administration. Predictably, Russia's reaction to the new sanctions was harsh, perhaps prompting investors to ditch Russian assets. “But investors did not wait for details, driving...

Cannabis is slowly taking root in increasingly tolerant communities. The incremental decriminalization or legalization of cannabis across the world has fed an expanding international market trading the plant, its extracts and its end products. "2018 has seen a lot of trends in cannabis, but...

Several marquee Latin American economies have been affected by electoral politics this year, namely Brazil and Mexico, the region's two largest economies. Mexico recently held national elections and Brazil is slated to do so in October. What's getting lost in the region's electoral...

China Rapid Finance Limited (NYSE: XRF) serves one of the largest consumer credit markets in the world: over 500 million customers. Yet the industry is threatened by regulatory modifications, according to Jefferies.  The Analyst Jefferies analyst John Hecht downgraded China Rapid Finance...

A few months ago, Benzinga visited several countries in South America and subsequently published an article explaining why cannabis investors’ interest in the region, especially in Colombia, was about to spike. In the weeks that followed, numerous U.S. and Canada-based marijuana companies...

When Cassandra Farrington quit her job in 2010 as a vice president at Citigroup (NYSE: C), she had no intention of launching a sprawling media operation focused solely on cannabis. After all, at the time the product was legal for recreational use in exactly zero U.S. states. The plan was for her...

Exposure to industrial hemp farming has begun to increase as of late, despite the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which made the plant illegal to grow in the U.S. This non-psychoactive plant possesses numerous economic purposes, but one recent study suggests its capabilities transcend plastic...

This was a big week for cannabis legalization on the international plane, with the country of Georgia decriminalizing cannabis use and possession though a court ruling, and the Argentine province of Jujuy announcing the local government would start producing marijuana for medicinal and...

The first half of 2018 was a notably active period in the cannabis industry, particularly on the capital markets side. Over the first six months of the year, more than $4 billion in investments were made in the industry, according to Viridian Capital Advisors. Some of the most notable...