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Monty Agarwal: As investors, most of us have looked in the rearview mirror and dreamed of owning Microsoft, Google, Apple or Amazon when they were still unrecognized and unloved … long before they multiplied in value and turned their early owners into millionaires, multiple times over. Read more…
Michael A. Gayed: Early in January, Brazil’s central bank cut its interest rates for the fourth time to 10.5%, with more room to keep cutting in an effort to soften the blow of a European economic slowdown. Investors in Brazil seem to be positioning aggressively for the idea that growth will pick up as a result. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Gloom Boom Doom Report publisher Marc Faber was back on Fox Business, Friday, with his latest thoughts on Greece, China, stocks, U.S. real estate, and some creative Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Don’t let the headlines fool you, there’s lots of money to be made in global investing in 2012. You’re just going to have to be careful – more so than in years past – because right now the line drawn between successful markets and markets that are in danger of collapse is treacherously Read more…
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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Sy Harding: A major component of the big new eurozone rescue plan is to substantially increase the European EFSF contingency bailout fund, from 440 billion euros to 1 trillion euros ($1.4 trillion). Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets have taken investors for a wild ride over the past three months with chaotic trading dominating virtually every nook and corner of Wall Street. Amidst the volatility, investors have been seeking out refuge and fleeing to “safer” asset classes; although rational, this approach inevitability Read more…
Tony Daltorio: South America’s status as a bright spot in the world economy is under threat as commodity prices fall amid declining demand for raw materials from Asia. Read more…
Sara Nunnally: One of the reasons I love our annual summit conferences is hearing questions from our attendees. This year, I presented the idea of using emerging markets (NYSE:EEM) as a financial survival bunker. 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: Growing fears of renewed inflation, and uncertainties over the European (NYSE:VGK) debt crisis, are pushing down Brazilian stocks, making them among the worst performers in emerging markets. Read more…
David Zeiler: The United States should look at emerging markets for clues on how to sustain economic growth, according to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Read more…
Larry Levinson: A $12 billion project to have Apple Inc. contractor Foxconn produce the computer company’s iconic iPads in Brazil is running into trouble over tax breaks, labor shortages and infrastructure problems. 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…
Here we go again with another global sell-off. Just when things are starting to feel comfortable again, everything has to go haywire. The markets can’t keep doing this, can they? History tells us that eventually things will bottom out. Hopefully it will be by the year’s end, but as investors continue Read more…
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