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A New ETF For International Dividend Growth
Friday, May 20, 2016 - 1:24pm | 393Read More...Dividend growth, as it should be, is a point of emphasis for seasoned income investors. Plenty of issuers of exchange-traded funds have met that demand with a batch of U.S.-focused dividend growth ETFs. Some issuers are also taking the dividend growth approach to international ETFs. BlackRock Inc...
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Switzerland ETF Sort Of Stable, But Currency Is An Issue
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 9:11am | 659Read More...Switzerland is often see as a beacon of economic stability in what can a volatile European scene, but the Swiss franc always looms large for investors considering Swiss equities. Franc strength often weights on Swiss stocks, particularly when the currency is prized as a safe-haven and when gold...
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This ETF Is A Potentially Important Gauge Of Risk Appetite
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 8:46am | 574Read More...There is no dearth of exchange-traded funds that have “benchmark” status, and plenty of those are believed to be sound gauges of risk appetite. One of the more overlooked ETFs in terms of gauging market sentiment and risk appetite might just be the Ishares MSCI Europe Fincls Sctr Indx...
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Cybersecurity A Hot Topic At Davos
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 10:06am | 420Read More...Cybersecurity has been a hot-button issue in both the public and private sectors over the past year after a spate of hacking attacks left several companies in jeopardy and illustrated that the U.S. government is struggling to keep pace with hackers. With concerns about cyber-terrorism ramping...
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Swiss Miss: Switzerland Skirts Recession, But ETFs Struggle
Friday, August 28, 2015 - 2:32pm | 664Read More...A large number of diversified developed-markets exchange-traded funds have exposure to Swiss stocks, with Switzerland often being one of the largest country weights following the U.K. and Japan in those funds. So, it should be good news that Switzerland surprisingly avoided a recession in the...
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Ron Insana On Seriousness Of A Global Deflation
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 2:04pm | 385Read More...CNBC contributor and Marketfy Maven Ron Insana was recently seen discussing the seriousness of a global deflation and the impact of falling commodity prices. Markets: Undervaluing Risk Of A Global Deflation Or Taking It Seriously? When considering the markets stance toward a potential global...
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Burger King And Taco Bell Tag Team McDonald's For Fast Food Crown
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 9:05am | 632Read More...As if Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) Taco Bell trying to muscle in on breakfast wasn’t enough, traditional rival, Burger King (NYSE: BKW) has entered the ring and is stealing customers from McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) in the U.S. So said Brian Sozzi of Belus Capital Advisors on Jim Cramer's The Street...
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UBS Profits Plunge, Hit by Facebook IPO Loss
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 11:15am | 437Read More...UBS (NYSE: UBS), Switzerland's largest bank by assets, announced Tuesday a 58 percent drop in net profit to 425 million francs. Losses stemming from the Facebook (NYSE: FB) initial public offering (IPO) were 349 million Swiss francs ($356 million). UBS indicated in a statement, "We will take...
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Euro Zone Jobless and Inflation Rates Climb Higher
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 9:18am | 918Read More...There was more bad news out of Europe on Thursday when the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat announced that unemployment in the euro zone had climbed to a euro era record high and inflation was on the rise too. Eurostat said that unemployment across the euro zone had reached 10.7 percent...
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Are Poor Results From UBS A Bad Omen For Europe?
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 10:42am | 665Read More...Swiss banking giant UBS AG (NYSE: UBS) announced that its 4th quarter net profit fell 76% to 393 million Swiss francs ($427 million), down from 1.66 billion Swiss francs for the same quarter a year earlier. The result fell well short of the forecast of 737 million Swiss francs in a Reuters poll of...
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How to Profit From Japan's Stealth Currency Intervention
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 7:35am | 732Read More...Japan's Finance Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that it had conducted stealth interventions in the foreign exchange markets in November of last year in an attempt to prevent the Japanese yen from climbing any higher. The Finance Ministry reported that it secretly sold 1.02 trillion yen ($13.3...
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Could These Companies Benefit from Change in North Korean Leadership?
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 12:10pm | 609Read More...The news of the death of North Korea's long-term dictator, Kim Jong-Il, hit the Internet late last night. North Korea has been probably the most closed society and economy in the world and the foreigners have had a very limited access to the country. Kim Jong-Il or “Dear Leader” ruled the country...
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Strong Yen Hurting Japanese Economy
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 10:42am | 484Read More...Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa warned on Monday that a surging yen and the European Union's sovereign-debt crisis were slowing Japan's post tsunami economic recovery. The strong yen and the European financial crisis are related because as investors dump the euro, they look for what they...
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How to Profit From Slovakia's No Vote
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 7:54am | 572Read More...Slovakia put the future of the euro in jeopardy yesterday when the tiny, poor European country voted against enhanced powers for the European Union that are needed in order to prevent a financial meltdown. Slovakia's ruling party failed to get enough votes to give the European Financial Stability...
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How to Profit From Plans To Recapitalize Eurozone Banks
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 7:18am | 600Read More...Banking stocks across Europe have been rising since European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said that the eurozone's leaders were considering recapitalizing the region's banks. Banking stocks had already been given a boost after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europe needed to...
