Russia Leads Emerging Markets Higher

Stocks in developing economies were a pretty good place to be in the first quarter.  The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 1.9%–reflecting price returns converted to dollars–in the first quarter, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 0.4%.  The devil was in the details. Latin America, off 10%, was down for the count in the latest quarter. Eastern Europe was a surprise winner, with a gain of 11%, powered by Russian and Hungarian equities. Asia showed strength, too (up 5%), though for all the hype about India’s gross-domestic-product growth surpassing that of China, the latter’s stocks shone brighter in the latest quarter.

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Emerging Markets Play Worth Holding 'Forever'

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  If the two market crashes since the turn of the century have taught us one thing, it is that this proverb is extremely relevant to investing.

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Most Emerging-Market Stocks Advance With Chinese Lenders

Most emerging-market stocks advanced as Chinese lenders gained after the central bank added money to the financial system. OAO Uralkali, the world’s largest potash producer, posted the biggest decline since 2008.

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Emerging Markets And BRICs Are Beginning To Look Cheap

Investing in supposed ‘growth’ stories is often seen as the holy grail, yet often ends up an unholy mess. Growth most spectacularly failed as an investment concept with the implosion of the technology bubble. 

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Time to Be Brave About Emerging Markets

Naysayers continue to sound warnings over slowdowns in China, Brazil and other developing economies. Given the relative underperformance in those countries' equity markets, we think it's precisely the time for longer-term investors to be brave and take advantage of the opportunities to get in at potentially rewarding levels.

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Emerging Markets Drive Mobile Shopping

Consumers in the United States haven't warmed up to shopping via their smartphones as quickly as have their peers around the world, a new study finds.

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Datsun Leads Emerging Markets Push

Nissan Motor Co. said its new entry level Datsun brand hatchback will help attract young buyers looking for their first car in emerging markets including India.

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Eye on Emerging Markets, Firm Invests in Start-Up

As the world awaited the next pope in March, Peter Bale, the vice president and general manager for digital at CNN International in London, wanted to know how Africans would react if the pope were from their continent.

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Emerging Market Rout Offers Bargains

The recent rout in emerging markets is enticing some investors to jump back in to search for cheap stocks, bonds and currencies. But the selloff is prompting these bargain hunters to be a lot pickier than in the past.

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Coursera Nabs $43M to Bring Online Education to Emerging Market

Coursera today raised $43 million in funding to market online education to millions of students globally.

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Ignore the Bad News on Emerging Markets

Truth is, emerging markets haven't just been bad but are likely to get worse, especially in comparison to developed markets.

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Chinese Phone Makers Ready for Demand in Emerging Markets

Last year, when China quietly passed the United States as the largest smartphone market, the dynamics of global phone making shifted.

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Nissan Goes Back to Future With Datsun in Emerging Markets

New Delhi fashion designer Rebecca Nelson is the kind of customer Nissan Motor Co. aims to attract as it revives the Datsun brand: Someone on a budget looking to buy her first car. Problem is, she’s never heard the name.

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The Biggest Myth About Emerging Markets

File this one under “Much ado about nothing!”  As I pointed out on Friday, stocks in the most popular emerging markets are getting clobbered. Truthfully, the entire emerging markets space is taking it on the chin right now. 

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Get Ready to Buy Ugly, Cheap Emerging Markets

If, as the Wall Street adage goes, the time to buy is when blood runs in the streets, then investors should prepare, sadly, to start picking up emerging-markets stocks.

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Economists See Positives Amid Emerging Market Protests

Clouds of tear gas in Turkey, the thud of truncheons in Brazil and Wednesday’s ousting of Egypt’s president. Protests have not escaped Bulgaria, either

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Emerging Markets ‘Cheap Now’

Emerging-market currencies are still the best bet for investor returns amid growing doubts about the direction of monetary policy at the U.S. Federal Reserve, said EverBank Financial Corp. senior market strategist Chris Gaffney in an interview Friday.

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Emerging Markets: Down, But Not Out

It has been a painful ride in emerging markets this year, with inflation-related protests in Brazil, political unrest in Turkey, and a slowing economy in China. 

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Is There Life After BRICs for Emerging Market Investors?

For more than a decade, Brazil, Russia, India and China have dominated the landscape in emerging markets. But as the BRICs-driven commodities boom wanes, investors may need to rethink their approach.

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Corporations Investing More In Emerging Markets Than U.S., Europe

For years, economists have been talking about a structural shift in the global economy. In that shift, multinationals would have to choose where to spend their capital and ad budgets. 

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