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What to Buy with ETFs

The development of the ETF market benefits individual investors because these funds carry lower price tags and allow greater flexibility. The question is which ETFs should you buy?

2010: The Year for Natural Gas

Although renewable energies have a certain cachet as high-tech solutions to the world's energy problems, they're also impractical in the near term. That augurs well for natural gas.

Portfolio Update: A Fearful Market

Fear and profit-taking add up to another opportunity to buy into Asia's long-term growth.

Don't Scorn the Dollar--Redux

For now, investors should regard the US dollar’s strength as a counter-rally in a well-established downtrend.

Google This

While people worry about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and investing in China, the country’s trade growth increased in December to 17.7 percent year over year, easily surpassing consensus estimate of 5 percent.

Theme of the Month: Outperformance

Our investment approach won’t become defensive yet; the Chinese market has more room for appreciation.

Taiwan Travelogue

Research Editor Hannah Hsu spent New Year’s in Taiwan. Although we’ve analyzed Taiwan’s investment opportunities in the past, what follows is a glimpse of everyday life in the island.

Portfolio Update: The Chinese Underground

This real estate developer occupies a niche space in the Chinese market--underground shopping malls.