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GUGGENHEIM CHINA SMALL CAP ETF $22.04 – New York symbol HAO

GUGGENHEIM CHINA SMALL CAP ETF $22.04 (New York symbol HAO) aims to track the AlphaShares China Small Cap Index, which is made up of all Chinese stocks that are legal for foreign investors and have market caps between $200 million and $1.5 billion.

Chinese stocks have plunged since this summer. Chinese leader Xi Jinping seems focused on shoring up the Communist party and the Chinese stock market, rather than strengthening the Chinese economy.

Brazil has officially entered a recession with news that its economy shrank in the second quarter this year, at a faster rate than in the first. Brazil’s per-capita income has been falling since last year, and the Brazilian real has lost a quarter of its value in the year to date. State-controlled oil and gas giant Petrobras is also in the midst of a huge corruption scandal.

Brazil is suffering in part from weak commodity prices. China, as an importer of resources and an exporter of manufactured goods, stands to gain from weaker prices. Yet China is suffering too.

The common factor linking Brazil and China is that governments of the two feel free to meddle in the economy whenever they wish. Government economic intervention can make an economy expand for lengthy periods when it has the support of the people, healthy finances, and various other pluses. The problem is that government like this inevitably discovers more and more excuses to meddle.

Both these countries still have strong long-term growth potential, but both need to get their economies back on track.

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