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China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... average (of about 2% growth per year in real GDP per person)". "Slowdowns often occur despite seemingly sound prospects: both Brazil in 1980 and Japan in 1991 looked like juggernauts, yet they managed scarcely any growth at all in real GDP per person ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The emerging markets investment landscape is best understood in terms of country blocs that perform similarly as the macro environment evolves, according to Investec Asset Management Global Strategist, Dr Michael Power. Power presented an analogy where ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... found" in central banks' forward guidance of easy money going forward. But it's not only Wall Street that's benefitting, Brazil's stock market is too - and then some. Gauging from the recent performance of Brazil's stock market, the economy of the B ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... funding costs for small firms and farmers even though real interest rates in China still remain lower than they are in Brazil, Russia and India, China's BRIC colleagues. The interest rate for those sectors is at 2.25%, 375 basis points lower than the ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... from attending the negotiations and eventual launched of the BRICS' "New Development Bank (NDB) -- Putin told reporters in Brazil that: "Sanctions have a boomerang effect and without any doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... from attending the negotiations and eventual launched of the BRICS' "New Development Bank (NDB), Putin told reporters in Brazil that, "Sanctions have a boomerang effect and without any doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... one day we'll get to the end of this "considerable period". But "no woman, no cry", more money's coming for the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - has just built what I call the "R5 - renminbi, rupee, rubble, real, rand - Bank". Which ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... third of respondents said that China would deliver real growth over the next three years, whereas only 15% thought that Brazil would. In the same way, nearly half of respondents believe China will push forward with economic reform, but only 6% think ...

ASX considers UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has said it is 'considering the progress' of the United Nations' 'Sustainable Stock Exchanges' (SSE) initiative, following news that the London Stock Exchange has become the tenth exchange to sign up to the program. ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... lifted the country's rating one notch above investment grade from BBB- to BBB with a stable outlook - now higher than India, Brazil, Spain and Russia. According to Standard & Poor's, "We raised the ratings because we now believe the ongoing reforms to ...