EMerging Equity
$EPU
Peru Avoids Downgrade To Frontier Market Status — For Now
Peru has averted a downgrade from emerging market status to frontier market status by MSCI — at least for the time being. The South American nation has retained its status as an emerging market by MSCI on Wednesday, thus ending the threat of such a downgrade that could have driven around $5 billion in outflows from the country. … Continue reading
How Peru’s Drug Trade Is Threatening Its Economic Growth
By Neil Pyper Peru has been hailed an emerging market success story, with more than a decade of GDP growth in excess of 6%. While booming mining exports have been the overwhelming driver of this, the shopping malls and SUVs in Lima and other major cities are evidence that domestic demand has also been buoyant. … Continue reading
Peru Faces Reclassification To Frontier Market Status
Originally posted on The Monetary Express:
Peru’s current classification as an emerging market now hangs in the balance after MSCI announced it may downgrade the South American economy to a frontier market. Emerging markets in general have not being performing well this year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets index down 11% since the start of…
What Will Drive Peru’s Economy After Its Election?
Peru’s business regulations are not expected to change radically regardless of which presidential candidate is elected in the upcoming 2016 election. Peru’s fragmented political scene will require the next president to form alliances in Congress to pass legislation, slowing the legislative process for major regulatory changes. Protests and a militant threat in southeastern Peru will … Continue reading
The South American Financial Crisis Of 2015
Most nations in South America are either already experiencing an economic recession or are right on the verge of one. In general, South American economies are very heavily dependent on exports, and right now they are being absolutely shredded by the twin blades of a commodity price collapse and a skyrocketing U.S. dollar. By Michael … Continue reading
Swiss Policy, China Reserves, Peru and Egypt Surprise
By EM Bits When we thought the day had enough excitement from central banks after India and the SNB, Peru and Egypt also surprised markets. China released its FX reserve figures yesterday showing another sharp decline. Using a back-of-the-envelope calculation, it seems like likely still strong. When we thought the day had enough excitement from … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight (19-Dec-2014)
By ETFalpha Global Emerging Markets expressed as iShares MSCI EM ETF (EEM) have been remaining in both negative trend and momentum. However, if the recent market bounce appears to be sustainable during the week commencing December, 21st we may see momentum turing into positive territory. Assuming that’s the case we would be recommending to increase … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight
By ETFalpha Contact(at)ETFalpha.uk What an interesting week for global stocks and Emerging Markets. The levels of volatility jumped significantly with the VIX Index reading increased by more than 78% for the week! Both Emerging and Frontier Markets lost around 6% predominantly due to plummeting oil and generally commodity prices. Technically things look awful as both … Continue reading
Your Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation (Iconographic)
Emerging and Frontier Markets are an asset class itself these days and offer investors amazing opportunities. The challenge is to harness the amount of volatility relatively bigger versus the other equity asset classes. Also the universe of ETFs in that space is pretty big and any successful asset allocation approach has to follow a well … Continue reading
Peru Boosts Spending, Cuts Red Tape, Eyes Tax Reforms To Jumpstart Economy
The Peruvian government has given a green light on Thursday for a third round of emergency spending increases this year in addition to measures to quicken environmental permitting in an effort to boost sluggish economic growth, Bloomberg reports. The Peruvian government is also considering tax reforms and has not ruled out cutting the corporate tax … Continue reading
Follow Us On Social Media
The SSE Intl Roadshow
Our Discussion Groups
Our Social Media Readers
