iShares MSCI Singapore Index Fund (ETF) (EWS)

weiwentg (97.20) Submitted: 4/28/07 8:35 AM : Start Price: $12.97 EWS Score: 1.65

iShare MSCI Singapore tracks a benchmark of developed Singaporean companies, 50-ish% of which are financial services companies. This is the only ETF I've picked. I wouldn't normally do this.

However, Singapore is a bit of a unique case. I ...

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Skoodog (31.18) Submitted: 3/27/07 6:34 PM : Start Price: $12.28 EWS Score: 1.95

Great ETF w/ its money in the most financially secure country in the high-growth Asian markets. Singapore is sitting on mountains of cash, getting its hands in this half-decade's cash cow (financials) and looking to keep growth up. Periodic correct...

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ReginaldW (< 20) Submitted: 11/20/06 12:29 PM : Start Price: $10.57 EWS Score: 11.76

36% exposure to banks in the index is a safe way to bet on the overall region outside of Japan and China

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firor (64.36) Submitted: 8/23/06 1:54 AM : Start Price: $8.93 EWS Score: 20.62

EWS is the best i-shr in the Far East. The government is stable & business ethics & accounting transparent/comparable to US.

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hkirk60 (55.20) Submitted: 2/12/07 8:42 PM : Start Price: $11.85 EWS Score: 5.03

Singapore has had a great run and still has plenty of steam. It has depended on external product demands but wages there are rising and will inevitably create increasing internal consumer demand. The weakening US Dollar will help create a currency ...

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davidengi07 (99.36) Submitted: 12/28/07 7:52 PM : Start Price: $13.70 EWS Score: 2.68

Sometimes I just love to be a contrarian and swim upstream, so here goes...





Singapore has a strong medium-to-long-term economic future, with plenty of just brilliant intellectual and white collar capital available there, and ...

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headhi (73.47) Submitted: 8/25/06 8:21 PM : Start Price: $8.90 EWS Score: 20.67

Singapore as a country is best positioned to benefit from the inevitable growth in Asia. They are well connected to the Chinese disapora who will drive business success and they are fast becoming the "Switzerland" (financial center) of Asia, after Sh...

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NetscribeETF (46.38) Submitted: 3/01/07 8:07 AM : Start Price: $11.38 EWS Score: 5.83

A market, which gave a yearly return of 46.7%, posted a GDP growth of 7.9% in 2006 and expected to grow at a rate of 8% in 2007 sounds too good for any investor. Well that’s what Singapore is, a city- state depending mostly on services and exports. i...

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BEWalsh13 (78.54) Submitted: 10/18/07 6:41 AM : Start Price: $13.24 EWS Score: -0.91

As ETF's go, this is probably one of the safest funds that allows you to get exposure to the emerging markets of southeast and north Asia. The fund is invested in companies based out of singapore, which is great, because that means that there is some...

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BimcyFinance (69.52) Submitted: 2/19/07 3:27 AM : Start Price: $12.29 EWS Score: 3.38

EWS - MSCI Singapore Index Fund - Singapore is an emerging market play. Asian countries have been on a tear since early 2003 and thre is strong upward momentum. I am specifically picking Singapore because its prospects look even brighter than that re...

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