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Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... was more of the same - jawboning the markets instead of direct, concrete action. This is the complete opposite of what Brazil - whose economy has slowed more than the other BRICs - has done and is doing to reverse the slide in activity. The Banco Central ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... year to July. China's Commerce Ministry attributed the fall in FDI inflows to competition for investors from India and Brazil, tighter land supply and rising labour costs but it was confident that this would only be temporary. The Ministry is not wrong ...

Instos reach tipping point on EM PE

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... evolution of the market. Other opportunities of interest at the moment include Eastern Europe and Latin America, particularly Brazil and Peru where Hamilton Lane is pursuing buy and build type strategies, according to Blackburn. "We've also recently ...

BRICs plus four will drive world investment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... old world thinking that has run its course, according Goldman Sachs. These growth markets include the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China but supplemented by four others - South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey. Katie Koch, senior strategist ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... anymore. Real GDP slowed to just 5.6% in the first quarter, nearly half the 10% rate in the last quarter of 2010....and Brazil, whose economy expanded by only 0.7% in the March quarter of 2012 - two years ago it was growing at a 7%-9% clip. And to round ...

Indonesia woos infra investment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... Indonesia's population and resources it could grow between 8 and 10% annually, putting it on par with major emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China. The country's efforts to attract foreign investment received a boost in December when their ...

Pacific Hydro joins $315m renewable energy JV

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... $320 million consortium agreement between the industry fund owned Australian renewable energy company Pacific Hydro and Brazil's mining company Vale. The agreement formalises Vale's and Pacific Hydro's intentions to jointly build and operate two wind ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... ago? Looks like those who thought that this wasn't enough to stop the pain were correct after all. BRICs to the rescue. Brazil Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced last night that them BRICs would be "going to make an additional contribution to the ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... There are a lot of factors that will change the demand for Australian mining, such as expanding mineral exploration in Brazil and Africa, said Hajkowicz. Hajkowicz's presentation, titled 'Social and Economic Trends, Lessons for Institutional Investors' ...

Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... Treasury bonds has seen foreign ownership of US government debt increase to more than US$5 trillion, with China, Japan and Brazil significantly upping their holdings. The US is now so reliant on China to buy this debt that the US government has put in ...