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Oct 30
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The wild week on Wall Street concluded on Friday with major losses for most U.S. and international benchmarks. This was largely due to a 2.9 point drop in the U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index, as well as a 0.5% personal spending drop in September....
Money Morning
Oct 30
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Money Morning Staff Reports
Among the many adages that longtime investors are probably familiar with is one that counsels “you’ll never buy at the very bottom and will never sell at the very top.”
But with his recent market calls on the...
ETF Database
Oct 29
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The wild week on Wall Street continued Thursday, with most major U.S. and international benchmarks clawing back the prior session's losses. Better-than-expected GDP data in the U.S. marked the end of the recession in the minds of many investors,...
ETF Database
Oct 29
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Wednesday was a wild day for U.S. and global equity markets, with huge losses for most major benchmarks that conjured up images of late 2008, when seemingly every day saw a triple digit swing in the Dow. The ETFdb 60 Index, a benchmark that...
ETF Database
Oct 27
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Tuesday was an interesting day on Wall Street, as investors reacted to the unveiling of a controversial bailout plan, a welcome rise in home prices, and a major setback for comprehensive health care reform. The Dow eked out a gain thanks largely...
MarketWatch
Oct 21
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Brazilian equities rise, lifted by investors looking for bargains a day after a government-imposed tax on securities spurs the strongest sell-off in stocks in four months.
ETF Database
Oct 20
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Stocks finished Tuesday in the red following disappointing revenue reports from several companies, concerns on the housing market, and weak PPI data. The ETFdb 60 Index, a benchmark of the investable universe available through ETFs, declined 4.76...
MarketWatch
Oct 20
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Brazilian stocks and the country’s currency slide following the government’s decision to impose a tax on foreign fund inflows into securities, a move aimed to tamp down the surge in the markets.
Dollars to Doughnuts
Oct 20
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Shrewd investors would continue to execute a plan of taking profits and defending open long positions. This most recent high in the S&P 500 has occurred (once again) on divergent breadth, and mixed fundamentals. Good companies beating lowered...
Clusterstock
Oct 20
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Did you dabble in the iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) ETF after Rio won the bid for the Olympics, and you read a million articles about how sound the Brazilian economy was?
Well, today you just got dinged by an emerging market making a classic emergin...
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iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (EWZ)
Overview
The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the Brazilian market, as measured by the MSCI Brazil Index. [1]
Fund Information
- Fund Manager - Ishares
- Inception Date - 07/10/2000
- Exchange – NYSE Arca
- Index Ticker - EWZ
- Intra-day NAV Ticker – EWZ.IV
- Expense Ratio - 0.63%
Top Holdings
| Holdings | % of Portfolio |
| PETROBRAS - PETROLEO BRAS-PR | 12.53% |
| PETROBRAS - PETROLEO BRAS | 10.34% |
| CIA VALE DO RIO DOCE-PREF A | 8.78% |
| ITAU UNIBANCO BANCO MULTIPLO SA | 8.24% |
| CIA VALE DO RIO DOCE-ADR | 6.46% |
| BANCO BRADESCO -PREF | 5.23% |
| CIA DE BEBIDAS DAS AME-PREF | 2.92% |
| CIA SIDERURGICA NACIONAL SA | 2.81% |
| OGX PETROLEO E GAS PARTICIPA | 2.26% |
| GERDAU SA-PREF | 2.18% |
Holdings as of 02/11/2009
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