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Emerging markets on the bubble
a Your Money columnistYou have to love emerging market stocks. After all, they are up more than 40 percent for the year -- an even more tantalizing return than the 31.6 percent average for each of the last five years. But should you love them and leave them? Analysts are...Tags: Periodicals, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., China, Gail MarksJarvis, Stock Market
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Emerging-market stock funds have offered rewards, risk
Investors nervous about the U.S. economy are casting their eyes overseas. Emerging markets especially capture their attention. These carry higher risk, but returns have been dramatic. Emerging-markets stock funds turned in an average gain of 36...Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, Gaming, China Mobile Limited, Marketing, China
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Overseas investing remains important, but be watchful
Tribune staff reporterQ: You suggest in your book that a person in his 40s could invest 26 percent of a 401(k) in international stock mutual funds. In a column in November, you warned people about emerging market funds. Do you still feel that 26 percent in international...Tags: Stock Activities, China, Brazil, Companies and Corporations, Gail MarksJarvis
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Risks lurking in emerging markets
Tribune staff reporterYour emerging-market fund might have climbed 50 percent during the last 12 months, but that doesn't mean it will be immune from the interest rate worries, housing woes and subprime mortgage angst that have tainted U.S. stocks recently. Asia, Africa and...Tags: Mortgages, Africa, Politics, Citigroup Incorporated, Forests
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Caution the watchword with emerging markets
Tribune staff reporterAn opportunity to buy emerging-market stocks is likely to surface within a few weeks as nervous investors continue to flee from risky stocks, experts say. But analysts are warning investors not to be too eager to overindulge now. With emerging markets...Tags: Politics, Africa, Companies and Corporations, Northern Trust Corporation, Gail MarksJarvis
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Jitters afflict emerging market investors
Tribune staff reporterPerhaps nowhere has investing become more confusing than in foreign markets. With the aid of the falling dollar and an ongoing overseas economic growth spurt, international investing has been kind to investors. International stock mutual funds have...Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, China, Gail MarksJarvis, Petroleum Industry, Japan
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An Old-fashioned Investing Approach Still Shines
Tribune staff reporterThey came to Chicago from every corner of the globe--pension fund managers, endowment managers, money managers of various types--worried that they will disappoint clients over the next few years with lackluster returns from lethargic stocks and bonds....Tags: Gaming, Politics, YRC Worldwide Incorporated, Citigroup Incorporated, Career and Workplace
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One-stop shopping overseas is problematic
Tribune staff reporterIf you like the ease of index investing, you would think investing throughout the world would be snap. Instead of worrying whether you had too much or too little exposure to developed countries or emerging countries, you'd pick one index for the entire...Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Trade Policy, Biotechnology, Gail MarksJarvis
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Pace of profits expected to cool after red-hot stretch
Tribune staff reporterWhen corporate earnings have been climbing at a double-digit rate for a historic 18 quarters in a row and are projected to climb at close to 10 percent in the next year, it's tough to sing the blues. And most of Wall Street is not. The consensus for...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., China, Citigroup Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Gail MarksJarvis
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Excess liquidity a puzzling investment dilemma
Tribune staff reporterWhether your pockets are oozing with money or not, if you are an investor or homeowner you probably have been feasting on cash during the last few years. The world has been flush with it. Massive flows of cash have been fueling a world economic boom,...Tags: Japan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Economy, Business and Finance, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Federal Reserve
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What now? Resist urge to flee or freeze
Are you OK? The stock market is in bear market territory -- or a downturn of almost 20 percent that can last weeks, months or years. In any bear market, you have no idea when it will end or how bad it will get. So investors naturally get scared. On rare...Tags: Career and Workplace, Stock Market, Education, Stock Broking, History
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