By Mark Mobius, From http://mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2013/04/03/dodging-soccer-balls-and-sharks-in-recife-brazil/ Recife, in Brazil’s northeast Pernambuco state, is known to many as the “Venice of Brazil” [...]
BYD to build electric bus assembly plant
BYD is taking its big bet on California to the next level. The Shenzhen-based producer of electric vehicles will break [...]
BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”
By Yun Sun, Brookings Institute, The destinations of new Chinese leader’s first foreign tour are always carefully chosen and reflect [...]
Risk Unrewarded as Emerging Stocks Lag Behind Most Since ’98
By Michael Patterson and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg, The link between risk and reward in stocks is breaking down as emerging [...]
Low-Volatility ETFs for Emerging Markets
By Tom Lydon, From www.etftrends.com/2013/03/low-volatility-etfs-for-emerging-markets-2/ Low-volatility ETFs have been a hit with investors and could make even more sense for [...]
Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as World Water Dries Up
By Matt Craze – Feb 14, 2013 Bloomberg Markets Magazine In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158,438 residents of [...]
Brazil forecasts investment surge
Government officials speaking to Emerging Markets sound confident that Brazil can now achieve annual economic growth of about 3% to [...]
Brazil’s Richest Family Forging $13 Billion Niobium Dream
By Cristiane Lucchesi and Alex Cuadros, Bloomberg, In 1965, U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur W. Radford persuaded Walther Moreira Salles, a [...]
This Colorful Table Shows Why You Should Diversify Your Emerging Markets Portfolio
By Sam Ro, From Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/usfunds-em-periodic-table-2013-3 If you’re lucky, then you might be able to pick the right stocks [...]
How to Make a Dream Vacation Pay for Itself
How to Make a Dream Vacation Pay for Itself By Danny Warren, International Living I squeeze the brakes of my [...]
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