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Joseph Hogue: The coming week may prove relatively light after last week’s volley of meetings and summits. Despite tensions in Russia and a few important CPI reports, the lack of real market movers Read more…
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Scott Martin: Another BRIC heard from in the race to stimulate local markets and keep foreign capital flowing: Brazil has eliminated the 2% tax on foreign investment in stocks. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Since climbing off their post-recession low on Tuesday, stocks in the emerging world are coming back strong. The question is whether this is an organic rally or an artificial effect of central bank action. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Turkey, Brazil, Russia: after months of protesting that their money bought too much, country after country is now moving aggressively into the foreign exchange markets to support their currencies. Read more…
Tim Seymour: There appears to be a lack of consensus within the Brazilian government about where interest rates should be headed. Read more…
Tony Daltorio: Brazil’s central bank may hack 75 basis points from the country’s benchmark interest rate in October to battle perceptions that its economy is slowing. Read more…
Tim Seymour: The retreat in the oil market has pushed the ruble and other commodity-linked currencies off their perches. But take a long-term view before you call the Russian currency weak. Read more…
Tim Seymour: The Brazilian monetary policy board has voted once again to raise domestic interest rates another 25 basis points. The move was expected but its size was not. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Brazilian stocks have been a nasty trade for a long time, especially for casual players who bought into the short-lived spikes on the Bovespa. Long-term silver lining here. Read more…
In emerging markets land the central banks are active today. But in Brazil at least, the pace seems to be slowing. Read more…
Headlines around today’s announcement that Brazil is extending its 6% tax on foreign purchases of local bonds may look bearish, but the real news is not so bad. Read more…
It now looks like the idea of taxing new investments by foreigners has failed, forcing the Brazilian government to come up with new measures to restrain the local real currency. Read more…
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A decade ago, Brazil and Turkey were often linked in traders’ minds as the countries fighting hardest against massive inflationary currents. Now, the two countries could not be farther apart. Read more…
Lots of central bank activity on interest rates, and some of it is a little surprising given the tone in the global macro community. Read more…
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