Tag Archives: EBAY

Smartphones: China’s next great economic indicator

posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:00 am by Emerging Money

China (FXI, quote) has broken a new global record in smartphone penetration, which will have a dramatic effect on content and commerce in 2013 in the world’s most populous internet market.

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This is the one bright stock in the worst emerging market

posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:48 pm by Scott Martin

Argentine stocks are currently the worst performers in the world, down 17.89% year to date. But the Argentina ETF (ARGT, quote) has shed only 6.2% of its value over the same period. With that kind of gap between the underlying market and tradable fund, what made such a huge difference?

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Dissecting the Emerging Money Stock Index: MELI

posted on March 28, 2012 at 4:11 pm by Richard Rittorno

MercadoLibre (MELI, quote) has been on steady climb since November of last year. Is this Argentine company more than “the eBay of Latin America?”

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Here are the growth plays with the force of trillions behind them

posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:05 pm by Joseph Hogue CFA

The Financial Times ran a good synopsis of a report released by the Boston Consulting Group on Monday. The report measures the impact of the internet on the GDP of countries in the G20, and it reminded me of a conversation I had a few months back with Richard Kang, CIO of Emerging Global Advisors.

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JPMorgan’s euro high and low risk lists deliver much-needed sanity

posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:50 pm by Tim Seymour

One of the most respected equity strategists on Wall Street is laying out exactly which U.S. stocks are exposed to euro risk — and which can actually prosper if the European process fails to rescue the shared currency.

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Chinese Groupon-like sector collapsing due to economy (GRPN, BIDU)

posted on December 7, 2011 at 2:57 pm by Jonathan Yates

Chinese counterparts to Groupon (GRPN, quote), Amazon (AMZN, quote) and EBAY (EBAY, quote) that focus on daily deals and consumer-to-consumer sales are falling apart, due to intense competition in the sector and slackening economic growth in China itself.

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Strong Q3 strengthens Mercadolibre position in Internet commerce (MELI, AMZN & EBAY)

posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:45 am by Jonathan Yates

Mercadolibre, Inc (MELI, quote) is buffering its position behind Amazon.com (AMZN, quote) and Ebay (EBAY, quote) in the Internet retail business, recently releasing earnings for the third quarter that soundly beat estimates.

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Mercadolibre is the Ebay and Amazon of Argentina (MELI, YHOO & AMZN)

posted on October 24, 2011 at 8:30 am by Jonathan Yates

Like Ebay (EBAY, quote) and Amazon (AMZN, quote), MercadoLibre Inc (MELI, quote) is a business services company focused on online commerce and payments platforms. It is a holding of a number of exchange traded funds like VBK (quote), VB (quote), RRY (quote), VGT, quote) and VTI (quote).

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Chinese Web wars flare across the market

posted on May 16, 2011 at 3:28 pm by Emerging Money

Yahoo is testing the $16 level again this afternoon as even once-bullish analysts acknowledge that digging its way out of its dispute with Alibaba is going to be tough.

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Alibaba news heightens Chinese net stocks' pain

posted on May 13, 2011 at 11:59 am by Tim Seymour

It looks like a very high-profile dispute over corporate governance issues is not what momentum-sensitive stocks need when they already look more than a little expensive.

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