Samsung’s Smartphones Could Have Potential In Emerging Markets

Samsung’s Tizen mobile platform is all too easy to write off as a failure. The product, which is a Samsung-owned rival to Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems, was delayed for more than a year. Even when the first Tizen-powered device finally emerged this January, it was a pretty underwhelming $92 smartphone for India and other emerging markets.  Added to that, Samsung had earlier extended the platform to cover smart TVs, a move that some took to mean that the platform wouldn’t have a major role in its mobile division.

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Cornell Professor Wants You To Get Over The 'BRICs'

Andrew Karolyi, a finance professor at Cornell University and an expert in investment management, wants to get over the idea of the BRICS.  He says that isolating countries into rich/poor categories with cute acronyms is unhealthy – not only for those countries, but also for investors who might overlook great opportunities based on a name.

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Best Emerging Market Countries To Invest In Now

Credit Suisse upgraded its outlook on emerging markets and recommended investors overweight India, South Korea and Taiwan in a mammoth 92-page “Global Equity Strategy” report released Wednesday. The largest exchange traded funds on the stock market providing exposure to the stock markets in these countries are iShares MSCI India (INDA), iShares MSCI South Korea Capped (EWY), iShares MSCI Taiwan (EWT).

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Emerging Markets Rally, for Now

At the start of the year, the accepted strategy for investing in emerging markets could be summed up in one word—don’t.  But developing-country stocks have surged nearly 13% in the past eight weeks, largely because the demon that was stalking them, the arrival of higher U.S. interest rates, has likely been pushed back. Currencies and bonds have also rallied, giving some countries and businesses a much-needed chance to clean up their books to prepare for higher rates.  The reprieve is temporary.

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