A Potential Opportunity with EM Bond ETFs
Most investors have shunned the riskier developing economies, but emerging market corporate debt and related exchange traded funds could turn around this…
EMHY
A Troubling Trend for Emerging Market Bond ETFs
Rising default rates in the developing economies could foreshadow trouble ahead for emerging market bond exchange traded funds. Corporate default rates in…
BlackRock iShares Raising Liquidity in Smaller ETF Offerings
In an attempt to bolster liquidity in its less frequently traded exchange traded funds, BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) iShares ETF business is participating…
Oil Plunge is Problematic for Some EM Bond ETFs
With bonds from energy sector issuers making up increasing percentages of high-yield debt indices and exchange traded funds, there has been growing…
One Country EM Bond ETF Investors Need to Watch
Sure, Brazil saw its sovereign debt rating reduced to the lowest investment grade by Standard & Poor’s earlier this year and Turkey…
Turkish Tumult: ETFs Could be Stung by a Sovereign Downgrade
Although Turkey holds an investment-grade credit rating, the country’s historically fractious relationship with ratings agencies could be further strained in the event…
Turkey ETF Tumbles After al-Qaeda Consulate Attack
Shares of the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (NYSEArca: TUR) are lower by 4.7% Wednesday on media reports that a militant faction of…
Amid Rally, Cash Still Departing Emerging Markets ETFs
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: EEM) and a host of previously downtrodden single-country emerging markets ETFs have rallied over the…
Some EM Bond ETFs Surviving Ukraine Conflict
Political conflict in Ukraine has claimed nearly 80 lives with fighting between police and anti-government protesters punishing the country’s sovereign debt. Ukraine…
An Emerging Theme Among This Week’s Most Searched ETFs
An emerging markets chill rattled U.S. stocks as January, a month historically kind to the bulls, turned out to be the worst…
It’s Not All Bad in Emerging Market Debt ETFs
For as bad as equity-based emerging markets exchange traded funds have been this year, and they have been rather dismal, their bond…
Central Bank Salvation for the Turkey ETF
The embattled iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (NYSEArca: TUR) may have gotten a lifeline Tuesday evening when the Turkish central bank raised its…
Risks Still Abound in Indonesia
Even with Monday’s losses, the Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (NYSEArca: IDX) and the iShares MSCI Indonesia ETF (NYSEArca: EIDO) are off…
Wrong Place, Wrong Time for This EM Bond ETF
There is not much going right for emerging markets exchange traded funds right now and that sentiment is not limited to equity-based…