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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…
In Argentina, Significant Investment Lies In The Balance Of October’s Elections
Argentina is preparing for its up-and-coming presidential election that is set to take place in October, a move which could usher in a new government that is not tarnished in conspiracies and corruption and could actually give blossom to a nation that has endured many years of economic hardship with the bulk of the nation living from paycheck-to-paycheck and … Continue reading
Argentina’s Tangled Web – Who Killed Alberto Nisman? And Why? – OpEd
The evidence already available about Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death from a gunshot to the head creates a strong presumption that he was murdered. By Gareth Porter Alberto Nisman was about to present publicly his accusation that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her foreign minister, Héctor Timerman conspired to absolve Iran of the 1994 AMIA … Continue reading
Argentina In The Empire’s Cross Hairs – OpEd
By Hans Vogel This past Monday, 19 January, hundreds of angry people gathered in the central square of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires. They had come to protest against what they regard as the official murder of Alberto Nisman, state prosecutor leading the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center AMIA (Asociación Mútua … 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
“Switzerland Of Latin America” – Insight Into Chile Economy And ETFs
Chile is one of the most exciting investment destinations in Latin America. The country is very well developed in relation to the other nations of the continent. It’s a big producer of copper as it delivers more than a third of the world’s copper producion. Although it is more costly compared to many other copper-producing nations, … Continue reading
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