Business Monitor International’s (BMI) Head of Latin America Country Risk & Financial Markets, Richard Hamilton, and Head of Americas Research, Cedric Chehab, discuss BMI’s core global themes and the impact and opportunities these will create within the Latin American and Caribbean market. Sign up for a free trial In this recorded webinar the team examines… [Read more]

Business Monitor International (BMI)’s Head of Middle East and North Africa Analysis, Jean-Paul Pigat, has just returned from a trip to the region, where he met top-level policymakers and investors. Earlier today, he spoke to the BBC’s World Business Report and discussed the implications of the crisis on investment into the region. Meanwhile, BMI will… [Read more]

By now, most informed people will be aware that much of China’s economic development and foreign investment have been concentrated on a relatively narrow coastal strip on the eastern part of the country, running from Beijing in the North down through Shanghai and all the way south to Guangdong province. By comparison, China’s inland regions,… [Read more]

As we head into 2011, my colleagues at BMI’s Latin America Rearch Team have outlined four core themes which will shape Latin America’s macro and market outlook for the upcoming year. 1. Monetary Policy – An End To Inflation Targeting? A desire to maintain export competitiveness will continue to slow the pace of policy rate… [Read more]

Most people are well aware that the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries are big recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI). But they are also big sources of FDI. In 2009, for the first time, emerging market outbound mergers and acquisitions (M&A) flows outpaced inbound M&A flows, reaching US$131.8bn, according to Dealogic. Most of these… [Read more]

As I discussed in yesterday’s post, the world has to get comfortable with the idea of a rapidly slowing Chinese economy and the potential risk of a concomitant, sharp decline in Chinese overseas investment. While China has splashed out around the globe, I would argue that no other region has benefited more from Chinese FDI… [Read more]