Posts Tagged ‘investment’
Tue Jan 19, 2010 15:58 UTC |
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...]
Tags: Brazil, BRICs, China, corporate finance, FDI, India, investment, M&A, mergers and acquisitions, Russia
Posted in: Asia, China, Financials, General, Latin America
Fri Nov 20, 2009 16:26 UTC |
A region which traditionally received only little coverage is being considered an option by an increasing number of foreign investors. Richard Hamilton, BMI’s Latin America analyst, explains why interest in the region is growing, and whether Central America should be considered a viable option for foreign investors.

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Tags: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, IMF, investment, Latin America, military coup, Nicaragua, Panama, Panama Canal, Political Risk
Posted in: General, Geopolitics, Latin America, Podcast, Political Risk
Wed Oct 7, 2009 18:36 UTC |
Global politics and commerce have long been centred on major basins, starting with the Mediterranean, then shifting to the Atlantic and later the Pacific oceans. In recent years, the Indian Ocean has emerged as the focus of a new geopolitical competition and a realm for promoting ‘South-South’ trade and investment, especially between China-India and Africa. [Read more...]
Tags: Africa, australia, Book Review, China, geopolitical competition, India, Indian Ocean, investment, piracy, shipping, Somalia, Such A Full Sea, Trade
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Book Review, China, Commodities, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk
Fri Sep 25, 2009 15:51 UTC |
With the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras following June’s military coup, we examine how the political stalemate is likely to unfold over the coming days and weeks, and why events in this small Central American country have taken on such regional importance.

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Tags: Central America, economic crisis, Honduras, investment, Manuel Zelaya, military coup, Nicaragua, Political Risk, US, Venezuela
Posted in: General, Geopolitics, Latin America, Podcast, Political Risk
Fri May 15, 2009 17:24 UTC |
Among other things, I’m just wrapping up a three-day working trip to Istanbul, where I participated in an investor’s conference focusing on the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region as well as met BMI clients to discuss views from the ground level. I figured I would take the opportunity while I’m waiting for my flight [Read more...]
Tags: banking sector, Consumers, Economic Outlook, investment, Istanbul, recession, Turkey
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Financials, General, Middle East
Mon May 11, 2009 14:30 UTC |
At the end of April, Risk Watchdog went to the ‘Invest Iraq’ conference in London. It was attended by several hundred representatives from a broad range of companies, and a large chunk of the Iraqi government, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (who gave the keynote speech), was there. The delegates were very ‘on message’ and [Read more...]
Tags: Corruption, investment, Iraq
Posted in: Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk
Thu Apr 30, 2009 15:24 UTC |
The US Q1 GDP numbers released yesterday were, bluntly put, a horror show. They were not, however, wholly unexpected by yours truly — I had expected a slightly better but still dismal outturn compared with Q408’s -6.3% q-o-q annualised number. And that’s basically what we got: a -6.1% reading.
Have a look at the underlying numbers. [Read more...]
Tags: Economy, First Quarter 2009, GDP, government consumption, investment, net exports, private consumption, US
Posted in: US