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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...
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.
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...
TheStreet.com
Oct 16
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Emerging markets ETFs are a good way to diversify a broader portfolio, but investors should consider several key factors before adding Market Vectors Russia ETF.
MarketWatch
Oct 7
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The highly coveted win by Rio de Janeiro to host the Olympics in 2016 opens up a broad range of investment plays in Brazil, analysts say.
TheStreet.com
Oct 5
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Investors should consider adding exposure to this growing marketplace through one of Brazil's popular ETFs.
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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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