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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: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Finance, Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Stock Market
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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: Pakistan, Finance, Personal Finance, 401K, Mutual Funds
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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: Money and Monetary Policy, Politics, Africa, Asia, Citigroup Incorporated
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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, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Personal Finance, Consumers, Mutual Funds
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China's lesson in gravity
Tuesday's stock market plunge, triggered by a massive selloff in Shanghai, brought to mind a placid Sunday afternoon in Beijing 22 years ago. That's 22 years of my life, which is about the equivalent of a century-and-a-half in terms of China's...Tags: Stock Activities, Los Angeles Times, Washington (U.S. state), China, Shanghai (China)
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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: Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Health, Europe, Financial Markets
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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: Career and Workplace, YRC Worldwide Incorporated, Wages and Pensions, Politics, Finance
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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: Science and Technology, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Personal Finance, Trade Policy, Mutual Funds
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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., Money and Monetary Policy, Earnings Forecasts, Citigroup Incorporated, Stock Market
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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: Prices, Credit Ratings, Inflation and Deflation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Money and Monetary Policy
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