Dilma Rousseff

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is once again calling out corruption in the Trump Administration, following a questionable decision made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. What Happened: On Monday, Warren shared a video on X questioning the SEC’s recent approval of...

The Shanghai-based New Development Bank, established by the BRICS nations, is reportedly set to roll out loans denominated in the South African rand and Brazilian real, a strategic move aimed at reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar and fostering a more multipolar global financial...

Last year was certainly a good year for the U.S. stock market. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) finished 2016 up 11.2 percent on the year. However, as happy as U.S. investors were in 2016, stocks in other countries performed even better. One of the major benefits of the rise in ETF...

Bloomberg published a list on Thursday of who its reporters and editors consider to be the most influential people in the world. For many, the list shouldn't come as a surprise and contains familiar names including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)'s CEO Jamie Dimon, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:...

The iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWZ) is up nearly 68 percent this year, easily making it one of 2016's best performing single-country exchange-traded funds, emerging markets or otherwise. Commodities And Politics Among the catalysts often cited for EWZ's resurgence are rebounding...

Twenty years ago it may have been "offensive" for a company to sell a t-shirt proclaiming that someday a woman will be president. That company happens to be Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT). Back in 1995, a Wal-Mart store had to pull the t-shirt after one customer complained....

The iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWZ) is higher by nearly 36 percent this year, making it one of the best performing emerging markets single-country exchange-traded funds. EWZ's performance and those of Brazilian stocks is undoubtedly impressive in the face of steep economic and...

This year, investors are hearing plenty about the resurgence of the value factor and the reemergence of emerging markets equities and exchange-traded funds. On that note, it would appear logical that marrying those two themes would be rewarding. The PowerShares FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets Portfolio...

Once one of the most savagely repudiated single-country emerging markets exchange traded funds, the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (NYSE: EWZ) is regaining its darling status this year. EWZ, the largest Brazil ETF, is up more than 41 percent year-to-date, or more than five times the returns...

Brazil's troubling political situation may have taken a turn for the worse as the country's Parliament voted to commence impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. Rousseff faces charges of manipulating government accounts. As noted by the BBC, she is accused of "using creative...

Ahead of Sunday's vote by Brazil's lower house of congress to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, exchange traded funds investors did not scamper into ETFs tracking Latin America's largest economy in big numbers. As of 12 a.m. Eastern time, 439 votes had been cast in Brazil's...

As emerging markets stocks and exchange-traded funds tumbled over the past several years, Latin American equities were a big reason why. With emerging markets being a lagging, hated asset class, disdain among investors for Latin American stocks ran high. That disdain morphed into love in March, as...

Brazil's political stability appears to have taken a turn for the worse on Wednesday. According to Reuters, Brazil's largest political party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) announced its intention to leave President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pull its members from the...

In one of the most stunning reversals in recent memory for an emerging markets single-country exchange-traded fund, the iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWZ) is up 31 percent over the past month. EWZ's gain over that stretch is more than two and a half times that of the MSCI Emerging...