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Abstract The goal of this study is to determine which fund or country-specific characteristics predict accurate performance in terms of tracking country-specific stock market indices. Ninety-three country-specific exchange-traded funds from [...]

Why raising equity is back in fashion FOR OVER a decade many people in finance have worried about the decline of the public company. Big firms were shrinking their capital [...]

Why companies from China still flock to Wall Street CHINESE FIRMS get a frosty reception in America these days. President Donald Trump is a relentless China-basher. His administration has tried [...]

In an exciting development for Pakistan's capital market, TPL Trakker, a pure tech based company, was listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). This was the second listing of FY21, which [...]

Event The half-year 2020 results for companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) paint a grim picture of the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on Jordan's economy overall. [...]

Byline: S. Kamal Hayder Kazmi Japan's Nikkei 225 stock market benchmark may fall when resuming trade next Monday after a long weekend. This is mainly attributed to US headwinds as [...]

SHANGHAI'S STAR market, a stock exchange for China's home-grown technology firms, celebrates its first birthday today. It has much to cheer about. Launched with an ambition to rival Nasdaq, a [...]

Event The Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC, the stock exchange) recorded a strong performance in 2019, with capitalisation soaring by 31%, to Ps442.87trn (US$138.4bn). Analysis The COLCAP (the benchmark [...]

Why Britain's equity market is shrinking A FEW MONTHS ago Trian, a hedge fund, revealed that it had built a 6% stake in Ferguson, a London-listed company that supplies the [...]

The benchmark KSE-100 index extended gains on Friday and crossed the 33,000-point mark due to robust investor sentiment following a meeting between Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and prominent businessmen. [...]

Byline: Rachel Syme Trading Places tif15tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaMaggie Siff and Stacey Cunningham15 Maggie Siff walked onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange eight minutes before the opening [...]

Brexit? The London Stock Exchange isn't bothered WHEN LSE Group, the parent company of the London Stock Exchange, Europe's largest, released its 2018 annual results on March 1st, there was [...]

Byline: RICK BAERT Institutional investors' asset allocations, which have grown more risky in the 10 years following the financial crisis of 2008-2009, are prompting some to worry about the recent [...]

Byline: Hannah Lang WASHINGTON -- Federal Housing Administration chief Brian Montgomery said Tuesday the agency is trying to determine the direct cause of losses to its reverse mortgage program, while [...]

Byline: Shabbir Kazmi Sentiments remain lackluster over weak gdp outlook, political uncertainty Despite announcement of populist budgetary measures and persistent increase in international oil prices, sentiments at Pakistan Stock Exchange [...]

Byline: DOUGLAS APPELL Japan looks set to become the beachhead in Asia for environmental, social and governance-focused investment, and the country's huge Government Pension Investment Fund is ready and willing [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI PAKISTAN STOCKS RETURN UNDER BEARISH SPELL The share market braved another bearish day Friday because of what equity experts said institutional profit-taking in the overbought market. [...]

Byline: S. KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI PAKISTAN STOCKS SHED 56 POINTS Pakistan shares closed the week on a bearish note Friday with KSE-100 Index shedding 56 more points to close at [...]

Byline: S. KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI PAKISTAN STOCKS SHED 56 POINTS Pakistan shares closed the week on a bearish note Friday with KSE-100 Index shedding 56 more points to close at [...]

Byline: SOPHIE BAKER Greece is getting interesting from an investment perspective as the country makes further reforms, its banking sector gets set to access cheaper financing, and a new agreement [...]

Byline: RICK BAERT Heightened volatility in the equity markets has led some money managers to seek excess return for their passive strategies through executing trades on individual index component shares [...]

Clean-energy opportunities: Pension funds need to spend less time buying and selling energy infrastructure projects that already exist and more time funding projects that need to exist, Anbaric's Ed Krapels [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI CHINA SHARES FALTER AT END OF ROBUST WEEK China stocks slipped on Friday in line with a broader correction across worldwide equity markets, but registered solid [...]

Fears of deflation and recession hit markets GLOOM seems to have descended at the start of 2016. Equity markets have had the worst start to the year in at least [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI WALL STREET SUFFERS FEEBLE CLOSE TO TURBULENT IN 2015 Wall Street dropped on Thursday, leaving the SandP 500 slightly lower for a year marked by record [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI HONG KONG STOCKS DECLINE Hong Kong stocks declined on Tuesday as financiers took profits after a 3-week rebound that grew the benchmark Hang Seng Index by [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI China shares edge gain, down for the week China stocks closed a volatile week slightly higher on Friday, after the US Federal Reserve held off from [...]

Byline: ARI I. WEINBERG The timing of the stock market meltdown on Aug. 24 was uncanny, at least in the eyes of the exchange-traded product ecosystem. Just a week before, [...]

Byline: MOHAMMED ARIFEEN Stock exchanges have various roles in the economy. The Stock Exchange provides companies with the facility to raise capital for expansion through selling shares to the investing [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI WALL STREET CLOSES LOWER, BUT HEALTH STOCKS RALLY US stocks closed a quiet session with modest losses on Thursday, but healthcare stocks rallied after the US [...]

Byline: S.KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI SandP 500 CLOSES AT RECORD HIGH US stocks closed sharply stronger on Thursday and the SandP 500 ended at a record high as investors worried less [...]

Once upon a time, you could become rich very quickly by investing in the Nigerian stock market. Between May 2006 and March 2008, the Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index [...]