The stock market of Philippines was one of the best performing stock markets last year. It has continued that upward trend and has shot up by another 24% so far this year according to an article in the FT beyondbrics blog. An article on Frontier Markets in Bloomberg BusinessWeek earlier this year had an interesting …
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For many years now Europe has been hit by one crisis after another.First came the fiscal crisis in Greece and then Portugal followed suit. Greece has been bailed out multiple times so far and is still struggling to recover. In general, the economies of the PIIGS countries have suffered greatly since the global financial crisis …
One way to invest in foreign financial companies is via their American Depository Receipts if they are listed on the US markets.Recently I came the KBW Global Financials (ex-u.s.) Index created by investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. The components of the index include some of the major global financials that US investors can access easily thru …
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Markets have been volatile in the days since the Dow and S&P 500 almost reached their all-time highs recently. In the past couple of days the markets are more volatile supposedly due to the election mess in Italy and revived fears of the Euro collapse. According Jan Luthman of co-manager of the Liontrust Macro Equity Income …
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