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Capturing Global Market Gains Using U.S. Sectors
Almost a decade after the global financial crisis, the S&P Global BMI (Broad Market Index), a measure of the global stock market has gained 234.4% from its bottom on March 9, 2009. As of January 26, 2018, the index level was 33.7% above its pre-crisis high that happened on October 31, 2007. Interestingly, the current…
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The Empowering Ability to be Selective in Emerging Markets
With a recent webinar on China, an ETF.COM article titled “Global Investors Plan To Shun Emerging Markets” caught my eye. The article, written by Rachael Ravesz, noted that 29% of the 4,208 investors surveyed by asset manager Legg Mason planned to move money from Emerging Markets into Developed Markets. The article shared a few reasons…
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A Conventional Down Month
Whenever you want to argue that rising interest rates are bad for the stock market, count June 2013 as a point in your favor. The long end of the US Treasury yield curve notched a -4.07% decline in June (following May’s -6.71% tumble), as rates on the S&P/BGCantor 20+ Year US Treasury Index rose by 66…
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