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South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... Trade and Development (UNCTD). The report was published ahead of the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit to be held in Durban, South Africa, at the end of this month. It shows that FDI in South Africa grew more than 10.3% ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... Markets Index has fallen by 1.9% over the same period. This is underscored by the emerging economies' flag bearers - the BRICs. They're all underwater. Brazilian equities are down by 7.5% to date, Russia's off 3.1%, India's shed 2.9% and China is 0.5% ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... trimmed some of the equity markets' gains but the MSCI World Index remains up by 5.2% this year, outperforming those of the BRICs whose share markets, except for China's (up 1.9%), are all in the red this year to date. Russian shares declined by 0.3% ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... 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 25.7% last year - nearly double the MSCI Emerging Markets Index's gain of 13.9% ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Super Mario announced OMTs). However, it seems that the rising tide does not lift all boats equally. Take the case of the BRICs for instance. The equity markets of Brazil (up 3.1% to date), Russia (up 2.7%) and China (up 2.4% from 5 September to 28 September ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... Arab Spring, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, USA no longer AAA, European crisis hitting Spain and Italy, the BRICs and emerging countries instituting tighter policies to rein in inflation. Just as it did the two previous QEs, QE3 will work. ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... 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 do Brazil has gone full blast on monetary policy ...

Lonsec urges advisers to revisit EMs

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... support for an increased emerging market exposure, particularly from institutional clients, Lonsec said. The ascent of the BRICs and emerging Asia with improved economic muscle, robust balance sheets and attractive demographics, "suggests historians ...

BRICs plus four will drive world investment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
Getting exposure to global growth economies through proxy companies listed on developed world exchanges is old world thinking that has run its course, according Goldman Sachs. These growth markets include the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... bil rescue not too long 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 ...