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16 Mar 2010 at 1:35pm
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  • China Construction: Boom or Bust?
    by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town
    15 Mar 2010 at 10:02am
    It would not take too much guessing to figure out where the bulk of the world’s construction activity is taking place. Of course, it is in China, but who would have thought global construction would decline from a year-on-year rate of almost 20% to close to zero once China is stripped out? This is what [...]
  • Emerging Markets Highlights (3/15/2010)
    by US Global Investors
    15 Mar 2010 at 9:47am
    Emerging Markets Strengths The number of people living at or above the level of “medium development”— considered to live in reasonable conditions and have access to education, health care, clean water and electricity—has grown by more than 2 billion people during the past several decades. That is more than the entire global population in 1900. The Asia [...]
  • Sovereign Debt: Emerging Markets Advantage
    by US Global Investors
    15 Mar 2010 at 9:12am
    By Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer It’s not a good time to be a developed economy. Sovereign debt is at or near the crisis point in Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal. It’s also a big issue and getting bigger in the United States, Britain, Japan and a number of other countries. Mohamed El-Erian, CEO at bond [...]
  • Get Ready for a Little Emerging Markets Inflation
    by Rebecca Wilder
    12 Mar 2010 at 10:10am
    Today I was thinking about tightening cycles in emerging markets, and more specifically about those in China. Because let’s face it, China matters. China matters to the rest of Asia via competition for export income. China matters to Europe via competition for jobs. China matters to Brazil via domestic production via imports. China matters. The inflation [...]
  • Mark Mobius: Q&A on Emerging Markets
    by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town
    11 Mar 2010 at 8:13am
    A recent Q&A with Mark Mobius, Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets guru, follows below, courtesy of the company’s Market Views newsletter. What are the pros and cons of investing directly in emerging market equities and bonds as opposed to companies based in developed markets with emerging markets operations? By directly investing in emerging market equities you [...]
  • Confessions of a Bull.
    by AdvisorAnalyst
    9 Mar 2010 at 9:29am
    This article is a guest contribution from John Thomas, madhedgefundtrader.biz, via ZeroHedge.com Confessions of a Bull. Barton Biggs, founder of mega hedge fund Traxis Partners, spent an hour outlining his current investment strategy with me. Barton is a man of strong opinions, backed with intensive research, which he communicates with his characteristic gravel voice. I spent [...]
  • Chris Wood: The U.S. Will be the Endgame
    by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town
    8 Mar 2010 at 10:21am
    In this video interview, Chris Wood, CLSA’s Asia strategist and author of the top “Greed & Fear” newsletter, shares his views on global markets with CNBC. Click here or the image of the report to read Wood’s full report that precedes his appearance on CNBC below. Wood said: “My view is that there is an inevitable endgame [...]
  • China PMI - canary in a coal mine?
    by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town
    2 Mar 2010 at 10:17am
    China’s PMI numbers for February were released yesterday and received surprisingly little media attention. Although I am usually not keen to slice and dice single-month statistics too intensely, the latest suite of manufacturing indices does seem to warrant more than cursory attention. Firstly, a summary of the numbers as provided by the China Federation of Logistics [...]
  • David Fuller (Fullermoney): Concentrate Long-term Investments in Low-Risk Cou...
    by AdvisorAnalyst
    28 Feb 2010 at 9:28pm
    “There has been a great deal of discussion in the financial press about whether Greece will successfully navigate the crisis it now finds itself in, if the Eurozone will survive a sovereign debt default should one occur and if there is a risk of contagion for countries such as the UK, Japan and the US. [...]
  • Emerging Markets Highlights (February 28, 2010)
    by US Global Investors
    28 Feb 2010 at 9:12pm
    Emerging Markets Strengths Taiwan’s GDP grew 9.2 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2009, exiting a recession which started in late 2008. Not only were exports and investment on the rise, but private consumption registered the strongest quarterly increase in the last 20 years. Thailand’s fourth quarter GDP rose 5.8 percent from a year earlier, accelerating [...]
  • India - Markets give thumbs up to Budget 2010
    by AdvisorAnalyst
    26 Feb 2010 at 3:27pm
    Markets give thumbs up to Budget 2010 Courtesy of Equitymaster.com The Union Budget 2010 brought some cheers to the Indian markets, which had been reeling under fear for the past few days with respect to the government’s stimulus withdrawal. However, the Finance Minister did not tinker much with the stimulus but for partially rolling back some excise [...]
  • Barry Ritholtz Sticks with Stocks, Especially Emerging Markets
    by AdvisorAnalyst
    26 Feb 2010 at 9:46am
    “As long as the Fed is going to make money free … it’s hard to find a short,” said blogger and FusionIQ CEO Barry Ritholtz. According to Yahoo Finance - Tech Ticker, he is not as bullish as he was last March when he called the market bottom, but Ritholtz is sticking with stocks. “The [...]

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  • 6 reasons to buy Brazilian stocks.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    3 Feb 2010 at 10:20am
    Brazil, it is not just a carnival in Rio, a football team and the Copa Cabana. Brazil also has a strong currency. The Brazilian real is indeed one of the most attractive currency in the world. Brazil is currently in the enviable position when it is least indebted, and the pace of economic growth is high.

    Brazil can be one of the most interesting investor-countries.

    1.) Inflation slows sharply. The central bank makes it easier. And Braz...
  • Short or long China?
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    1 Feb 2010 at 10:11am
    Bill Gross, nicknamed The Bond King, is concerned about the bubble in China. Even Forbes magazine predicts cooling overheated Asian economies. There is also known speculator in decline - James S. Chanos - who predicted the fall of Enron, and now says: "China is like Dubai but a thousand times worse."

    While in China the leaders trying to tackle the financial crisis, their American counterparts are still trying to understand what happen...
  • The best stock market for 2010.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    31 Jan 2010 at 10:04am
    Thank you for being voting in our poll "The best international stock market in 2010". It seems that most of the readers at Emerging Index are considering Asian markets as a leaders for this year. And here are the full results; regionally with percentage of gained votes.

    China 29%
    Asia Pacific 25%
    India 22%
    Emerging Europe 18%
    Latin America 14%
    Africa 14%
    Canada 11%
    Middle East 7%
    Russia 3%

  • Sovereign investment funds
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    17 Jan 2010 at 12:04pm
    Sovereign wealth funds manage government investments and funds. The largest is the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. It is also the least transparent. Sovereign funds invest according to the strategy of governments. What threats can be associated with them? Which countries are using sovereign funds mostly?

    Many countries have long-term budget surplus, making the nation's wealth to accumulate in the so-called sovereign wealth funds. The ...
  • Emerging markets performance and investment outlook.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    20 Dec 2009 at 11:45am
    Brazilian Index BOVESPA was the top performing international stock index around the world. In US dollar terms (Brazilian Real has appreciated by 29 % against USD within the year) index is higher by 145 %.

    But this doesn't seem to be the end of the story. In the region of Latin America, Brazil is still with reasonable P/E valuation 13.5. Other countries in region are Argentina 16.2, Chile 17.2, Peru 37.8, Mexico 20.4. Therefore it is b...

  • Accelerating growth in emerging markets
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    29 Nov 2009 at 7:30am
    Taiwan and South Korea strengthen rapidly, mainly due to strong demand from China. However, emerging markets are not growing as they used to do. Taking into account such as the ISM index of new orders in the United States this increase in demand could come in the first half of the 2010th.

    This article provides overview about major emerging markets around the world and referring to emerging markets outlook.

    The World Bank estimated glob...
  • International ETFs 2009 returns. Stock markets performance.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    22 Nov 2009 at 11:18am
    This is comprehensive list of all international exchange traded funds for different countries around world. We can call the group as a regional ETFs. This list includes only funds which are in long position. All short regional ETFs would be ranked at the bottom as all of them returned negative performance numbers.

    Top position, Russia, is the same as in the best performing stock markets ranking with better return because of currency ...
  • Top performing stock markets around the world
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    22 Nov 2009 at 9:59am
    It is not surprising that laggards of the year 2008 are the best performing stock markets this year. With global rebound and less risk-averse international investing some stocks exchanges returned more than 100% on y-o-y basis. Especially countries in emerging world. In "top tep" we can find only Norwegian OBX Index from the group of developed markets.

    Russia, RTS Index 156%
    Argentina, MERVAL Index 141.2%
    Ukraine, PFTS Ind...

  • Investment opportunities in Latin America
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    12 Nov 2009 at 3:05pm
    Latin American stock markets were among the first that erased the losses from financial meltdowns. Colombia is inexorably rising. Chile, measured by MSCI index, ranges on the border of the historical highs, and INTER10 index is already behind the highs from last year. Peru, Brazil and Mexico has also caught most of the losses and gradually nearing its peak around the middle of last year. Only Argentina is still well behind.

    While inve...

  • Currency ETF. Protect against weak USD.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    26 Oct 2009 at 7:39am
    At the beginning of the crisis the dollar rose as investors protect theirs funds by investing in safe currency. The dollar rose by 20 percent between July 2008 and March this year. But when markets calmed down the whole process is reversed. Since then, the dollar has lost most of the profits.

    USD dollar further weakens against major global currencies. Last weak it reached magical support 1.50 against EUR. Investors, especially US inv...
  • Favorite emerging markets
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    25 Oct 2009 at 6:59am
    Investors are attracted by emerging markets again and the current economic recession even helps them. Of course, they faced declines about one fifth to one quarter higher than the U.S. or Europe as a whole. But then again led strong recovery.

    Emerging vs. developed markets.

    For example, if fund focused on the U.S. added since the beginning of this year about 12 percent, the fund focused on emerging markets is 46 percent up.

    China is cur...
  • Emerging vs. developed markets
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    18 Oct 2009 at 3:24pm
    Emerging markets represent half of the global economy. Volatility, the quality of corporate management and government policies are comparable with developed markets. Clear differences between emerging and developed markets largely disappeared.

    The economies of emerging markets are growing rapidly. Gross domestic product (GDP) in China in Purchasing Power Parity is greater than the GDP of Japan. India's economy is in this indicator hig...

  • Outlook for emerging markets
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    12 Oct 2009 at 1:56pm
    Current situation and outlook for emerging markets. South Korea, Taiwan, India, Russia and Brazil. Global markets keep rally going since I posted last time general picture about emerging markets.

    South Korea

    South Korea is recovering at the fastest pace from all developing countries. Industrial production grew in August for the seventh time in a row. Business confidence is highest for the past 22 months, consumer confidence even in t...
  • Inflation protection with TIPS ETF.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    7 Oct 2009 at 8:04am
    Currently we have low interest rates globally and with minimum inflation or somewhere with deflation. How to invest money in times when prices will start growing again? There are so called Treasury Inflation Protected Securities or TIPS. Coupon payments, which are paid twice a year, are adjusted by changes in CPI (consumer price index).

    TIPS are being offered with different maturities with 5 years, 10 years and 20 years. Also all exch...

  • Hot emerging market - Turkey
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    3 Oct 2009 at 5:41am
    In Turkey the decade of free fiscal policy and high inflation had passed. In recent years the country addresses majority of structural problems and the result is the average annual growth of 6% of GDP between 2002 and 2009.

    Of course Turkey failed to defend against global recession. During the first quarter of 2009 GDP fell by 14.3% and unemployment jumped to 16.1%. In August jobless rate reached 15.6%. Turkish lira remained relativel...
  • Opportunities in China stock market
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    27 Sep 2009 at 12:01pm
    The growth of Chinese stock markets will be pushed by boosting corporate profitability. For example, the consensus in the expected growth in profits in 2010 reached 21%. Already the fourth quarter of this year should show improvement in corporate income. Once investors see that the companies managed to meet high expectations, increase their confidence, as well as exposure to the markets.

    In addition to improved profitability, there ar...

  • Investing in Latin America with ETF
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    13 Sep 2009 at 2:07pm
    Last time I introduce the list of ETF for getting exposure and investment in China. Today I would like to short list some exchange traded funds with focus on Latin America. The region is mainly commodity (energy and basic materials) driven and therefore if you believe in commodity bull that's the place to be.

    Here are some ETF and funds for the whole region.

    SPDR S&P Emerging Latin America (GML). This ETF tracks the total return perfo...

  • Chinese investing with ETF
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    30 Aug 2009 at 3:22pm
    August wasn't good month for Chinese stocks at all. Major Chinese stock index Shanghai SE Composite posted drop 20% from its high. It erased all gains from this summer. The question is, is it healthy correction or beginning of downtrend? In my view, the first option. Performance of Chinese stocks were beating all advanced and emerging markets. This correction keeps valuation at reasonable levels to avoid bubble.

    Even with declining Ba...
  • BRIC region valuation
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    23 Jul 2009 at 1:51pm
    BRIC region is popular benchmark for the performance of emerging markets as such. Actually it covers 3 continents and included countries represent different economy structures. Recently I pointed out on global stock markets P/E valuation, which showed Russia as a country with lowest P/E ration. Let's have a look to the rest of the group. First ranking shows the situation two years ago.

    China - 39
    India - 26
    Russia - 9
    Brazil - 12

    And the ...

  • Investment outlook for Russia.
    by vld2czech@googlemail.com (Vlada, Czech Republic)
    19 Jul 2009 at 1:51pm
    Opinions on the direction of equity markets in the near and distant future are different. From a regional perspective there is increasing focus on Eastern Europe and especially Russia. Views on Russia are very divided. From optimistic to very negative mood and the fear of further negative developments.

    The Russian stock market was one of the most growing in recent months. On the other hand last year ranked among the worst stock market...