ARGT News and Press, Global X MSCI Argentina From 12/05/19

When I wrote my last update on August 7, 2019 - I will try not to wait so long before the next one - the media were obsessed with the inverted U.S. Treasury curve, the insistence that we were headed for an imminent recession, and the "certainty" of continued all-time record low long-term U.S. ...

If you asked investors what the worst-performing country ETF was this year, I'd bet that few would get the right answer. Surely Argentina ( ARGT ) would be in the running, given its huge market crash in August, right? Did Brexit throw the UK ( EWU ) for a loop? Turkey ( TUR ) comes to mi...

The Global X MSCI Argentina ETF (NYSE: ARGT ) is the largest and most liquid Argentina country-specific exchange traded fund offering investors exposure to the most important stocks in the country. With that being said, we highlight a weakness in the fund's structure as it is highly concentr...

Following the global financial crisis of 2007-08, the International Monetary Fund ((IMF)) went through a period of self-examination. The old joke that its acronym stood for "It's Mostly Fiscal" bothered some of its leaders, who believed the organization needed to focus less on austerity and mo...

Source: Pexels/Kaique Rocha Until recently, I have been generally bullish on Latin American nations. Most (ex. Venezuela and Cuba) had stable centrist leadership that was focused on weeding out entrenched corruption and improving global investor confidence via pro-business reforms. Its e...

Introduction Last month I wrote about why investors should consider investing in a global equity index (such as the VT ETF). In summary, I said that global investing provides exposure to different, not perfectly correlated economies. So if you don’t have any reason to believe that a...

Argentina's president-elect Alberto Fernandez has pledged to 'turn the page' on the IMF-backed policies of incumbent Mauricio Macri, after the left swept back into power in Latin America's No.3 economy. More news on: Global X MSCI Argentina ETF, News on ETFs, Global news and forex, R...

(Source - Pexels/Min An ) Currency market volatility has been a consistent problem in emerging markets. Year after year, currencies are devalued in an attempt to boost economic growth but only serve to worsen external debt problems. Last year was particularly bad as we saw major dec...

Introduction: Twice a year I conduct a screen of North American indexes, international markets, and a top-to-bottom assessment of the existing watch list for Contra the Heard Investment Newsletter . Although valuations remain relatively high and economic conditions are deteriorating, m...

I've written a couple articles this year here on Seeking Alpha about why, in addition to investing in a variety of normal equities, I began allocating a portion of my portfolio into gold and gold stocks starting in the autumn of 2018. And in my most recent article, Recession Obsession , I e...