Emerging Market (EM) equities are looking good at the moment, there is no doubt about it, and as regular readers of Riskwatchdog will already know, I am particularly bullish towards Polish, Turkish and Abu Dhabi stocks. But now looking elsewhere for the next big thing, I turn my attention to Latin America, identifying Peru as… [Read more]
Further to my musings on whether ‘decoupling’ is fact or fiction, I’d like to briefly point out two of the curiosities of the current global equity rally. The first curiosity is how out of touch the rally seems to be with the fundamentals. My overall view is that this rally is simply a correction in… [Read more]
The rally in Latin stocks since the lows of October 2008 has been nothing short of incredible. Some of the markets have risen by over 100%, and viewing the moves in dollar terms, the gains have been even more impressive/absurd. With such huge gains, it begs the question to Risk Watchdog of whether this is… [Read more]