COUNTRY ETF

Four days into the U.S.-led attack on Iran, global equity markets are drawing a fault line. Two trading sessions have been enough to separate the world into two camps: energy producers and energy importers. The gap between them is widening with every barrel that fails to clear the Strait of Hormuz...

On a year-to-date basis, the Global X MSCI Greece ETF (Global X Funds (NYSE: GREK)) is the only single-country exchange-traded fund tracking a PIIGS economy that is trending upward. Then again, none of those ETFs have been nearly has bad as the iShares MSCI Italy Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWI). The...