Bespoke: BRIC countries continue to surge
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May 31st, 2009 by AdvisorAnalyst
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Bespoke Investment Group, who do a brilliant job charting, have put together the year-to-date look at BRICs vs. S&P500 [below].
Are emerging markets equities decoupling once again from developed markets equities?
It may still be too soon to tell, however, a recognition of the underindebtedness of BRIC-based companies and consumers, healthy banking systems, sound fiscal and monetary policies, as well as a resurgence in government spending and domestic consumption could be behind the recovery which has taken place in Emerging Markets since last November’s lows, which began 4 months sooner than the equity market recovery in March in the G-7.
Oil’s surging recovery from the $30s to $66 [Friday], and the weakening Greenback [which has been good to commodities' prices] have provided a further boost to Russia and Brazil’s commodity complex.
A landslide general election victory for India’s incumbent Congress [Liberals] coalition government has cleared the way politically for India to move forward on much needed reforms for at least the next 5 years.
China’s economic rebalancing, via its $600-billion stimulus appears to be trickling very solidly into the corporate sector and the economy, much faster than anticipated.
Time will tell.
Russia’s RTS stock index was up another 3.2% today [Friday], while China was up 1.71% and India was up 2.3%. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries continue to surge higher in 2009, as they’ve far outpaced stock markets of so-called ‘developed’ countries. Below we highlight their year to date performance compared to the S&P 500. As shown, Russia is up a whopping 72.1% this year, followed by India at 51.6%, China at 44.6%, and Brazil at 39.7%. The S&P 500 is up 0.22%.
Source: Bespoke, May 29, 2009.
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