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Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... 1.9%), are all in the red this year to date. Russian shares declined by 0.3% while India's equity market is down 2.2%. But Brazil's the biggest loser, with the Bovespa index down by 6.6% over the same period. Compare this with the 13.8% rally in the ...

Frontier markets poised for strong 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... Chinese infrastructure spending [which is likely] to be structurally negative for some large emerging markets including Brazil, Russia and South Africa." While risks posed by poor liquidity, political uncertainty and monetary crises are more likely in ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... come down from the double-digit pace recorded in 2010 to a mere 3.2% in the year to the third quarter of 2012. But for Brazil's paltry 1.0% growth during the same period, this is the slowest among the BRICs. Yet, India's Sensex 30 index has rallied by ...

CFP ranks to top 150,000 in 2013

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... followed by strong CFP professional growth from FPSB member organisations in South Africa, Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Brazil and India, showing the increased impact growth markets are having in establishing financial planning as a global profession. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... revenues fell below expectations and it said it was investigating possible corruption in its operations in India, China and Brazil. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 28.49 points (0.23 per cent) at 112,542.46. The broad-market S&P ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... explained Marais. While the managers conceded there would be short-term challenges to the growth of economies such as China, Brazil, Russia and India - significantly subdued demand from the west, they had the means, scale and opportunity to refocus their ...

ETP flows eclipse 2011 totals

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... equities, China exposures led, followed by broad emerging market exchange traded products (ETPs). Central banks in China and Brazil have aggressively lowered interest rates in 2012. Investors hedged risk by putting money into gold as Gold ETPs attracted ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... these treats even before the Fed's QE3, the ECB's OMTs, the BOJ's APPs and recent interest rate reductions in Australia, Brazil and South Korea have fully work their way down through the real economy.

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... international trade. These are the very same reasons behind yesterday's interest rate reductions by the central banks of Brazil and South Korea. The Banco Central do Brazil cut the Selic rate by 25bps to 7.5% -- the lowest since December 1997 - and promised ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... year, they didn't do that. The most well-known of course is the Fed's QE3 and Super Mario's OMTs, but China, Japan, the UK, Brazil and the RBA, among others, have implemented their own counter measures. The IMF's official global growth downgrade signals ...