Archive for: brazil

Bank of America (NYSE:BaC) Says Least Regulated Brazilian Utilities will Outperform Peers

Responding to comments from Bank of America (NYSE:BaC) that utilities in Brazil which are less regulated will outperform their peers because of “better pricing...

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Sugar Plunges from 30-Year High

Sugar Plunges from 30-Year High

Filed under: Commodities Last week, investors’ were concerned about sugar shortages in the Brazilian crop and that India may have to curtail sugar exports....

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Profit from Currency Wars

Profit from Currency Wars

Right now, the world is going through a massive economic re-balancing. The old idea that China will sell us stuff — while lending us the money to buy it —...

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Obama to California: Drop Dead

Obama to California: Drop Dead

“ Give me regulation, a cup of coffee, and a direct line to my lawyer… and I’ll be making money in an hour.� — Nassim Nicholas Taleb,...

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Finance Leaders Call for IMF Role in Averting Protectionist `Currency War’

Flashback: New IMF Strategy Document Charts Launch Of “Bancor” Global Currency Sandrine Rastello and Iuri Dantas Bloomberg Oct 10, 2010 Global governments tasked...

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China Continues Game-Changing Energy Moves with Sinopec’s $7 Billion Brazil Buy

Chinese state oil company China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) (NYSE ADR: SNP ) said Friday that it would invest $7.1 billion in the Brazilian unit of...

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Break Out!

What a way to end a month and end a quarter! Oil prices as calculated by Reuter’s News finished up 3 percent for the quarter and up 12% in September for the biggest...

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ALERT: RSX Monthly Trade Triangle Buy Signal

The Vectors Russia ETF (SYMBOL: RSX)  flashed a monthly green ” Trade Triangle” signal at 33.08 today. This ETF is part of MarketClub’s Global...

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Let the Carnival Begin! Brazil ETF

Guest ArticleHere is a market that we like a lot more than the US market. We reallylike the way it is acting and it looks set to take out the highs that wereseen...

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Big Mac Index: What Burgers Say About Currency Valuations

Big Mac Index: What Burgers Say About Currency Valuations

Filed under: International Markets , China , Brazil , Russia , Newsletters , McDonald’s (MCD) , Mexico , Japan , Currency “For the 24th year running...

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China: Investing In The US After Unocal

Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions After state-owned CNOOC was blocked from the Unocal acquisition in 2005, China has instead turned toward other countries...

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NYT: After Years of Inefficiency, Indonesia Emerges as an Economic Model

Looks like my proposal to have the BRIC acronym transformed into iBRIC is catching on.  A nice article in the New York Times on a market I’ve highlighted in...

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