Economic Roundup of Latin America

In this post lets take a quick look on the economic situation of a few Latin American countries. Argentina: Capital flight out of the country has slowed from 2009 but still is a cause for concern according to data released by The National Statistics Office. In 2009, $7.47B left Argentina according to Balance of Payments …

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Emerging Vs. Developed Markets: Decoupling is Still Dead

The theory that emerging, frontier markets are decoupled from developed markets in terms of performance is still dead. The chart below proves this point: Souce: The Hindu Business Line During the past couple of years investors worldwide learned that emerging markets and developed markets are not decoupled from each other. In fact, emerging markets went …

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Profit from Mobile Phone Market Growth in the Asia Pacific

Two of the largest countries in terms of population are in Asia. Despite the phenomenal growth in the total mobile phone subscriptions in India and China in the past few years, the cell phone to population penetration rate remains low in these two countries. Emerging markets in general offer the greatest potential for mobile phone …

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