Four Frontier Market Stocks

Frontier markets are the so-called next emerging markets. While investing in emerging market economies like Brazil, Russia, China, India takes a strong stomach, investing in frontier markets require nerves of steel. Frontier markets are those lie outside of the realm of emerging market investors and they can be considered the “Wild West” of the investment …

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IMF: World Economic Outlook 2009

Today the IMF released its “World Economic Outlook Update – Global Economic Slump Challenges Policies” report. The following are some of the main points noted in this report: 1. The United Kingdom is going to have the worst economic downturn this year with a projected figure of -2.80%. The British economy will fare the worst …

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Will Mining Stocks Shine Next Decade?

Mining stocks are not for the fainted hearted. As we have seen in the past few months as the demand for commodities fell, mining stocks were pulled down much more than the overall market indices. However when commodities were hot, mining stocks had an incredible run. In a recent article titled “After the bubble burst: …

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