Emerging Markets Carnage! That’s at least one way to describe the landscape investors faced when it came to Chinese stocks in 2011. And that’s just the large-caps. Broadly speaking, the small-caps were a mess unto themselves, attracting controversy at nearly every turn. Muckraking financial journalists and eager short-sellers … [read more]

In the Rear View Mirror: It was a decent start to the year for U.S. stocks. Or was it? The S&P 500 closed higher by 1.6% in the first trading week of 2012 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.2%. By comparison, the Nasdaq looked quite impressive with a 2.7% gain … [read more]