Looking for signs of life in European markets
European stocks may have a chance of recovery if political leaders can make progress on resolving the debt issue, but analyzing earnings will be critical for investors to navigate...
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Research insights from active investors
Income investing in a deleveraging world
Bond markets in Europe and emerging markets face a host of challenges in the years ahead.
Emerging markets: Inflation likely to peak this summer, no hard landing
Rising inflation has become problematic for emerging markets over the past year. But a slowdown in the pace of rising commodity prices is one of several indicators that, in...
Four views on China
With its meteoric rise to become the world's second-largest economy, China is an engine of global growth and is currently expanding much faster than developed nations still struggling to...
Health-care investing: What is the prognosis for emerging markets?
Over the next 10 years, some of the greatest growth in health-care spending is projected for emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil. For many reasons, growth opportunities...
New developments raise concerns about European debt
Developments in European sovereign debt markets have taken a significant turn recently, and the risk that the crisis could affect financial markets has increased.
All that glitters: Golden opportunity?
With political unrest and natural disasters around the world in recent weeks, investors rushed to gold as a safe haven and sent prices soaring. But while investors choose gold...
Japan after the quake: Assessing short- and medium-term effects
Obviously the situation in Japan is extremely serious. The northeast region of the country has suffered unprecedented devastation from the rapid sequence of a major earthquake, a historic tsunami,...
Growing data traffic may power telecom company profits
The convergence of many types of high bandwidth content — especially video — on mobile devices, tablet computers, and Internet–connected television is generating rapid growth in data traffic on...