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Can any accounting out of China be trusted?  This is what prudent investors have to start asking themselves.  Since early this year a new report comes out nearly every week that reveals some...
Yandex NV (NASDAQ: YNDX) has opened and the first print listed appears to be $38.50 and we have already seen almost 30 million shares trade by 11:10 AM EST with the last price seen right around...
Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ: YNDX) is set to raise about $1.3 billion as this top Russian search engine has reportedly priced above the range it was slates to debut.  Our indications were down at $20 to...
They say there is an ETF for just about anything.  Now we have IndexIQ launching a small cap ETF based on Hong Kong’s small cap equity listings.  The launch of IQ Hong Kong Small Cap ETF (NYSE...
Sometimes it is almost hard to imagine that a news story did not start in the tabloids.  The financial world and the political world have been shocked by news that the International Monetary...
The recent weakness in stocks could just be the start of what to expect in the weeks ahead.  It is early May and already we have seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average close down at 12,723.58 after...
Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) turned in its revenue growth and its expectations for 2011 to 2012.  The results would be considered somewhat robust by most US standards of late. ...
Arcos Dorados (NYSE: ARCO) will begin trading today and it is also coming out at a premium.  Arcos Dorados translates to ‘golden arches’ and it is the largest franchisee of McDonald’s...
Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (NYSE: EGPT) is getting to live up to its reputation as a price discovery mechanism rather than as an ETF.  Egypt’s stock exchange reopened today and most shares...
The Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (NYSE: EGPT) is very close to getting prove whether it is an exchange-traded fund or whether it is an exchange-traded price discovery vehicle.  After nearly two...
Are the credit ratings agencies still viable?  If you can believe it, there is a new round of warnings for credit rating downgrades in the lands of the PIIGS.  As if you didn’t know that things...
If you think that $97 for crude in West Texas Intermediate or $110 per barrel for Brent Sea crude is getting too high, what would you say about a call for the old super-spike scenario?  Forget $150...
Arbitrage trading and spread trading is not without risks.  Just ask those who decided in late-January that Brent Crude was widening out too much compared to historic spreads against West Texas...
Another week, another North African country on fire.  As you would expect, many large American and European companies do business in these nations.  Libya has followed turmoil in Egypt and Bahrain...
BRF – Brasil Foods S.A. (NYSE: BRFS) may not be a household name in America.  The company is in production and the sale of poultry, pork, beef, milk, dairy products, and processed food products in...