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April Flowers?

Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: This month has been a good one for the market, and bulls are sad to see it go. But April has historically been the best month of the year for the market. As shown below, the Dow has averaged a gain of 1.94% in April over the last 50 years. The next best month is December with a gain of 1.52%. (Click to enlarge) Complete Story

Coping With a Bubble in Emerging Market ETFs

Tom Lydon submits: The U.S. and global market rally since March 9, 2009 has been questioned by many. Naturally, the skepticism is now being extended to emerging market exchange traded funds. Some investors have started to doubt the sustainability of recent gains. In the Reuters European Fund Summit in Luxembourg, fund managers expressed thrill over the huge demand in emerging market assets while some strategists offered a cautionary note, reports Jeremy Gaunt for Reuters . Emerging market funds tracked by EPFR Global touched a nine-week high in mid-March. Asia ex-Japan equity funds pulled in $730 million for the week ending March 17, Latin America equity funds reached an eight-week high and EMEA equity funds is on a four-week inflow streak. [ Emerging Markets and ETFs: What’s in a Definition? ] Complete Story