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It’s not being widely reported, but the gold standard is back, at least in Russia. Since the last financial crisis, Russia has more than quadrupled its gold reserves, at least according to official data. See the chart below from the World Gold Council: There has long been a buzz, e...
Photo by Tarik Haiga on Unsplash Now is a good time to add exposure to Turkey ( TUR ) to your portfolio via the iShares country ETF. Turkish stocks are inexpensively trading at 6x earnings, and exports should almost mechanically boost growth after the fall in the Turkish Lira. Mr. Ma...
Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D. ©All Rights Reserved Introduction In Part 1 of this two-part series, I suggested that the largest countries measured by GDP, population, and geographic area would be the primary drivers of global futures. Here, I look at their military and economic dimensi...
Country-specific exchange-traded funds are a great way for investors to take a position on local market equity return factors. While many of the world's largest foreign companies trade on U.S. exchanges as ADRs (American Depository Receipts), country-specific ETFs often provide investors uniqu...
Nowadays, while trying to find investment candidates many of them inevitably come from emerging markets. This is not a coincidence. The U.S. market outperformance versus emerging markets has meant that many of the best growth/valuation/ safety compromises are often found outside of the U.S. ma...
(Source: AZ Quotes , caption and editing by the Author, sagacity by T.S. Eliot) The true state, of what was referred to as "rotten" in the Eurozone, has become clear as elections for the top jobs commence. European Council President Donald Tusk, a Polish native, made it clear that Fra...
As the S&P 500 remains near the all-time highs so far tested in January 2018, September 2018, and again last month in April 2019, I again hear many concerns from clients and colleagues against "getting into the market at these levels". Fortunately, I have a natural tendency to look away fr...
The purpose of this article is to assess the macro-fiscal flows for Russia and determine what effect these flows will have on the stock market and the economy. The chart below shows the national budget information to the present day over a ten year period tracked alongside the stock market. ...
New research reported by the Deutsche Bank Research (DB) shows that, on average, there is a positive (albeit non-linear) relationship between the per capita income and the share of middle class in total population: Source There is an exception, however, although DB's data does not test...
As recently posted by me on Twitter, here are three charts showing the evolution of Russian foreign reserves and external debt: Remember the incessant meme in the Western media about Russia eminently in danger of running out of sovereign wealth funds back at the start of the Western sanction...
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Effective August 3, 2022, the iShares MSCI Russia ETF (ERUS) has suspended the right of redemption of fund shares pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2022, in order to permit the fund to liquidate its portfolio. On August 17, 2022...
Today at 4am ET, NYSE Arca halted trading of the iShares MSCI Russia ETF (ERUS). Due to ERUS’ concentrated exposure to Russian equities, the closure of the Russian stock market and MSCI’s decision to remove Russian securities from its Emerging Markets Indexes, BlackRoc...