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With Iran backed into a corner, increased tension between the regime and the White House has resurrected talk of a closing of the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway by which the bulk of Middle Eastern oil must travel. Jeff Weniger discusses three key positions that may benefit from the current situation.
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There is a chance that, come this autumn, many fund managers will have zero exposure to the eighth-largest country in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. What country is it? Jeff Weniger discusses this emerging markets anomaly.
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Middle East equities have had a “lost decade” that many investors would rather forget. Yet our Middle East Dividend ETF, GULF, witnessed spells during which it had diversified emerging market risk considerably
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Whether you are looking for opportunities in the marketplace where momentum is running (China tech, emerging markets, India, and the European domestic economy) or looking for opportunities where markets have lagged other parts of the world (the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Japanese financials, and U.S. small caps), this look at top and bottom performers might give you a year-end shopping list from which to choose. 
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Saudi Arabia may finally be turning the corner culturally, politically and economically. Recent developments, such as allowing female driving, are at least a baby step in the right direction. The WisdomTree Middle East Dividend Fund (GULF), which we launched in 2008. Here is the case for it.
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At WisdomTree, we tend to do things differently, and in doing so we offer unique exposures to factors, markets or asset classes that we believe may be underrepresented. For some, it may come as a surprise that we have been offering exposure to Middle Eastern dividend-paying stocks for more than nine years, but for us it is just another one of our options coming up on a 10-year live track record.
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If January was any indication, we are all going to be in for a year of news flow and media frenzy like few we have ever seen. Showcasing our top 5 performers in January, we highlight which global markets were doing particularly well at the beginning of 2017.
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The decision by the MSCI index family to upgrade Qatar and United Arab Emirates from "frontier markets" to "emerging markets" is causing ripple effects throughout the investment world—in both the performance of the underlying markets and shifting allocations with strategies dedicated to frontier markets.
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There were times in the not-too-distant past when more accessible emerging market countries had lower accessibility than they do at present—each has been moving along its own continuum. UAE equities could be at an inflection point on their path, leading to potentially greater access for foreigners and increased liquidity in the near future.
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While it may take time for the negative sentiment to change within traditional emerging markets, I wanted to highlight one standout of relative strength. Interestingly, when one looks at various emerging market countries, a number of the “emerging” emerging markets—or the countries that are often included in frontier market indexes—have diverged from some of the more popular emerging countries.
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