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Frontier markets poised for strong 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... 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 frontier ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... 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 economies ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... Outlook report where it predicts that America would become the world's top oil producer by 2017 - surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia - and become energy self-sufficient by 2030. If IEA's prediction comes to pass, this would be another economic changing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following Wall Street and Europe's lead as investors digested a blockbuster deal leaving British oil group BP with nearly a fifth of the Russian giant Rosneft, and took stock of a souring outlook from the ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... 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 - it's on holidays this week) have all underperformed the MSCI ...

Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... While the amount of deals done in China decreased, this was offset elsewhere, in greater Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Brazil. Latin America is just one of many markets, but conditions on the ground mimic those across much of the emerging ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
It's her birthday and she'll cry if she wants to. Economic growth of 0.6% in the June quarter and 3.7% over the year marked exactly 21 years since Australia last experienced a recession. Yes folks, a year and 20! America has had 2 since then - Q1 to ...

Farm land a viable alternative

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... crops of corn and soybeans, for which the country is the world's largest exporter, said the report. And a dry summer in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan has contributed to projected wheat production losses. Food prices were overall, 6% higher than in ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... 2007-08 crisis that sparked food riots in more than 30 countries" and wheat have exceeded "prices reached in the wake of Russia's 2010 export ban." Should these agricultural price increases persist, they'll certainly raise production costs of livestocks ...

BRICs plus four will drive world investment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... 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 ...