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Eric Dutram: As worries continue to build over major emerging markets, many investors are looking beyond the Asian giants and closer to home. By doing this, some focus in on one of the giants of Latin America, Brazil, for potentially better investment opportunities. Read more…
I think it’s safe to say crude oil may be the most essential commodity around the globe. It’s a new world out there. The United States is just one of the super economies around and many of the others are new to the game and are growing at a rate much Read more…
JT Long: From gold and silver to energy and oil services, Frank Barbera, editor of The Gold Stock Technician Newsletter, sees a bright future for commodities and their equities. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Barbera cites large blue-chip Read more…
Tim Seymour: An overly strong local currency has been a structural problem for Brazil — except, of course, when the real has been too weak for the government’s comfort. It looks like the situation is getting ready to reverse again. Read more…
Elliott Gue: Uncertainty drove global equity markets in 2011. Brazil’s (NYSEArca:EWZ) stock market wasn’t immune to concerns about the EU’s ongoing sovereign-debt crisis, weak economic Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: In today’s market, dividend investing is the best way to achieve a decent income stream without taking on too much risk. On the other hand, this is also true: emerging markets give investors the benefit of the world’s fastest economic growth. Read more…
Jason Simpkins: 2011 was an up-and-down year for oil prices (NYSEARCA:USO), but don’t expect that pattern to repeat in 2012. No, next year, the trajectory for oil prices will be far more linear – and it’s pointed up. In fact, we could even see $150 oil by mid-summer. Read more…
Jared Cummans: Crude oil has been in the limelight in recent weeks, as its priced surged from a low of $75 barrel to break through the century mark, marking an increase of over 35%. While oil has long been, arguably, the most popular commodity on the market, investors and traders alike are looking to Read more…
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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…
Larry Levinson: Brazil’s local-currency rating was raised to “positive” from “stable” by Standard & Poor’s Corp. as the rating company changed its method for calculating the risks of default. Read more…
Larry Levinson: As the world turns its eyes toward Brazil (NYSE:EWZ), Brazilians are expected to turn their investments toward roads, highways, ports and other infrastructure spending. Read more…Todd Shriber: Every now and then even the savviest of investors fall into the value trap. They buy an ETF or stock that, in their view, has been unjustly punished. To be sure, this market environment has provided investors with no shortage of punished ETFs. That’s a good news/bad news equation. Read more…
Tim Seymour: A recent upgrade for the Brazilian oil company confirms the improving capital expenditure story for this massive stock, one of the biggest in Latin America. Read more…
As widely expected, Brazilian central bankers yesterday raised short-term domestic borrowing rates another quarter percentage point. But their next move is now anybody’s guess. Read more…
Tony Sagami: This column is devoted to Asian investment opportunities, but it doesn’t mean you or I should ignore the rest of the world. That is especially true when companies in other regions are making big profits by doing business with China. Read more…
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