Emerging Markets

Late Thursday evening in Barcelona, Spain, a van hurtled through a crowd, reportedly killing 13 people* and injuring dozens others. According to the Associated Press, Catalan police said shortly after the event: "We confirm the terrorist attack. The protocol for terrorist attacks has been...

Despite the ordeal of climbing over the Chinese barriers, many companies have made a beeline to China and have persisted with their attempts despite the rebuffs. Fast food chain McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) isn't the one to let the Chinese opportunity go by and this was evident from an...

Emerging markets stocks hit a rough spot last week as markets roiled by an intensifying geopolitical rift between the U.S. and North Korea. However, the saber rattling did not prompt large-scale departures from some emerging markets exchange-traded funds, although the MSCI Emerging Markets Index...

Emerging markets stocks and exchange traded funds are outperforming U.S. equivalents this year and India is a key contributor to that out-performance. For instance, the WisdomTree India Earnings ETF (NYSE: EPI) is up 27 percent year to date, an advantage of almost 350 basis points over the MSCI...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) shares jumped 3 percent Thursday after the company announce it would be launching the WWE Network in China starting on Aug. 18. WWE announced a new partnership deal with Chinese streaming company PPTV just 10 days ahead of its SummerSlam pay-per-view...

Following the release of second quarter results by NetEase Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ: NTES), UBS sifted through and segregated the positives and negatives from the earnings report. Chinese internet company NetEase reported second-quarter results showing 46.5 percent year-over-year growth in revenues to...

The number of Americans who support sending U.S. ground forces to South Korea if dictator Kim Jong-un invades from the North jumped from 26 percent in 1990 to a staggering 62 percent, a new poll shows. Meanwhile, the war of words between President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart...

As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...

The iShares MSCI Thailand Capped ETF (NYSE: THD), the lone U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund dedicated to Thai stocks, is up about 12 percent year to date. While that performance lags the returns of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, that sentiment should diminish the potential offered by THD. THD is...

It's not unusual to hear people say public relations firms have no real purpose. “They charge me to get me press coverage, which is ultimately free,” a mid-cap CEO told Benzinga in a recent event in New York. He had a point. The thing is, his understanding of what PR firms do was...

Some of this year's top asset-gathering exchange-traded funds are emerging markets funds, indicating investors are increasingly comfortable revisiting once disappointing developing markets equities. There are, however, additional data points that suggest investors are bullish on emerging...

Steve, a cancer patient in California, hits up his dispensary and asks for half an ounce of high-THC marijuana to calm his pain and stimulate his appetite, recently gone thanks to chemotherapy. He rarely leaves his house now; his sickness is still debilitating. His bank account looks fine, funded,...

Leon Cooperman said on CNBC's Fast Money Halftime Report that the market is fully valued at the moment. He explained that President Donald Trump's tax package could add $10 per share to the S&P 500 earnings, if it gets through completely. With the tax package, the S&P 500 earnings per...

Sick of hearing about U.S. small caps and the relevant exchange-traded funds lagging their large-cap counterparts? It is understandable if investors feel that way, but it is concerning that the Russell 2000 Index fell 1.2 percent last week while the S&P 500 nudged modestly higher. As has been...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Foxconn Technology Group has a multibillion-dollar autonomous vehicle research-and-development facility development planned for Michigan, according to the South China Morning Post. The announcement follows Foxconn’s July announcement of a $10 billion LCD...