The Brazilian equity market entered the bear market territory recently. The IBovespa is down by 2.65% year-to-date. Banks have held up well compared to other Brazilian stocks listed on the US exchanges as shown in the table below. Source: BNY Mellon Brazilian bank stocks may be attractive now for investors looking to gain exposure to …
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The German stocks market is one of the best performing markets in Europe over the long-term. For example, in the 25 years leading to 2013 the DAX index grew by more than eight times.From 1955 thru 2012, the index had returns in 39 years and negative returns in only 19 years. In 2013, German stocks …
Crude oil and natural gas are two of the largest natural resource exports of Russia. As crude oil prices have plunged bt over 40% in the past few months Russia’s economy is adversely impacted. The graphic below shows the importance of energy to the Russian economy: Click to enlarge Source: Euromonitor
Europe has an excellent conventional rail network.However not many people know that the continent also has an amazing high speed rail network that covers many of the major cities. Today the fastest high speed train in operation is AGV Italo which has a top operational speed of 36o km/hr and broke a record speed of 574.8 km/hr during test …
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In 2011, FT’s beyondbrics blog published an interesting chart showing the top five firms by market capitalization in BRIC countries and discussed about how a few large companies dominate the stock market in those markets. I am including that chart below in order to add some perspective to this post. Click to enlarge Source: Chart of …
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