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Market Vectors Africa Index ETF (AFK)

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  • International Stock Investing: Diversified Timing on Country ETFs by ValidFi
    In our previous article, we alluded that in a diversified portfolio, putting a long term timing indicator such as 10 month simple moving average on risky assets such as stocks, commodities could effectively reduce risk (i.e. big loss) while improving return. Investors are in a heightened state... More »
    December 20, 2009 • EFA, EPP, EWC
  • ETFDesk Daily 12/04/2009 Top News and Investment Ideas by ETFdesk.com
      Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.comToday's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more...Investment guru urges US dollar exodus : Jim Rodgers - Long CommoditiesMXF November Monthly UpdateGoldman On Gold: $1,450/OzKrugman : Double dip warningCanada Added... More »
    December 4, 2009 • MXF, GDX, GLD
  • The Meaning of Dubai's Financial Crisis for Emerging Markets by Chip Krakoff
    It must be fun to spark a world financial panic and then go on a five-day vacation. By now everyone knows that on Wednesday of last week, right before the Muslim world shut down for the Eid-al-Adha festival, Dubai World, the flagship investment company owned by the Government of Dubai and/or... More »
    November 30, 2009 • AFK, TRAMX, LETRX
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/18/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.comToday's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more...Confronting the China-U.S. Economic ImbalanceFreshest Data Shows The Recovery Is Nowhere Near V-ShapedDave Rosenberg 11/17/2009Gold - the next bubble?Goldman Sachs:... More »
    November 18, 2009 • UNG, FCG, PPR
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/18/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.comToday's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more...Confronting the China-U.S. Economic ImbalanceFreshest Data Shows The Recovery Is Nowhere Near V-ShapedDave Rosenberg 11/17/2009Gold - the next bubble?Goldman Sachs:... More »
    November 18, 2009 • UNG, FCG, PPR
  • African Risk and Opportunities by Chip Krakoff
    I subscribe to the “Stock Gumshoe” blog, which specializes in ferreting out the truth behind those teaser ads for scores of investment newsletters and tipsheets that promise you 1,400% returns in six months, but only if you take advantage of this limited time subscription offer, a... More »
    October 27, 2009 • AFK, TRAMX, AAUKY.PK
  • Look at Africa for the Long Haul by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    Feel like investing in a state sponsor of terrorism? How about acountry whose leaders have stolen $400 billion in the last decade andhave seen 300 foreign workers kidnapped? Another country lost four warsin the last 40 years. Still interested? How about a country thatsuffers one of the... More »
    October 24, 2009 • AFK, GAF
  • The $2.8 Billion UnderWater African Forest by Camari Ellis
    Green Shoots continue to emerge from the African continent, once again disproving many skeptics that feel that African geopolitical issues are to convoluted for entrepreneurial development. Today plans were announced to start an underwater logging project on Lake Volta, in Ghana, estimated to be... More »
    September 29, 2009 • AFK
  • A View from Cairo:he Case for Investing in Egypt by Chip Krakoff
    Crossing the Kasr el Nil Bridge that spans the Nile in central Cairo at eleven o’clock at night is like walking down 42nd Street in New York at rush hour, only more crowded. Cairo is the real city that never sleeps, and never more so than the current month of Ramadan, when Muslims refrain... More »
    September 8, 2009 • FRN, AFK, TRAMX
  • Two Great Africa ETFs by Mary Daniel
    Let me just start out by saying that there are truly many reasons not to invest in Africa.  The political landscape is far from stable.  Corruption is on at a full 360 degrees.  The continent is rocked with conflict without rest.  Infrastructure is pretty much... More »
    September 3, 2009 • PMNA, AFK

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