Third World lessons for First World growth – Video

From LSE Website, YouTube Video link:  Turnaround: Third World lessons for First World growth Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

To Help the World’s Poor, Give Them Real Jobs

The latest U.S. jobs numbers showed a U.S. unemployment rate still at 7.6 percent. The official global unemployment rate, compiled […]

By M Guliyev | 12 Sep 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Regions, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Jeff Gundlach Singles Out The Emerging Market Country Most Vulnerable To A Crisis

By Sam Ro, Business Insider, Jeff Gundlach of DoubleLine Funds just wrapped up his latest public webcast. He reiterated his […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 11 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Pre-emerging markets

The term, pre-emerging markets is a standard term for the smaller, and/or less-developed — yet still investable — equity markets […]

By M Guliyev | 29 Aug 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Investment Wisdom, Latin America | Comments (0)

Ai40 Weekly Commentary – 19 August 2013

Good news for the Ai40 Index as it clawed past the 113 mark this week, closing up 0.2%, or 0.23 […]

By Brian Andreosky | 20 Aug 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Finding Oxstones, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Notes from the Nigerian Frontier

by Mark Mobius http://mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2013/08/15/notes-from-the-nigerian-frontier/?nicamp=other&nichn=markmobius&nismseg=email Many frontier markets continue to stand out as particularly attractive to us right now, as a […]

By Brian Andreosky | 18 Aug 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Companies in emerging markets to increase spending

Companies in emerging markets are likely to increase spending and investment this year, a survey of senior finance executives shows […]

By M Guliyev | 06 Aug 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The #1 Thing Worrying Hedge Fund Managers Right Now

By Matthew Boesler, From SF Gate, BofA Merrill Lynch just released the results of its July Fund Manager Survey, which […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Hedge Fund, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Dambisa Moyo’s take on Frontier Markets

I just read a great interview by Jonathan Barnes of the CFA Institute Magazine, in which he interviews economist Dambisa […]

By Brian Andreosky | 18 Jul 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Finding Oxstones, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Greece First Developed Market Cut to Emerging at MSCI

Greece became the first developed nation to be cut to emerging-market status by MSCI Inc. (MSCI) after the local stock […]

By Aidualc | 11 Jul 13 | Posted in Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)