On this week’s Business Monitor Podcast, we continue our theme of ‘top emerging market picks’ with a focus on Latin America. BMI’s Head of Country Risk and Financial Markets Justin Patrie discusses the region with Head of Latin America Analysis Richard Hamilton and Latin America Analyst Martha Stickings. Specific countries discussed include Colombia, Brazil, Panama [Read more...]

 

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Business Monitor’s bullish stance on a host of emerging market (EM) currencies in recent quarters reflects one of our core macroeconomic assumptions, namely that unprecedented quantitative easing and loose fiscal policy measures in the US in 2009 would ultimately foster significant depreciatory forces for the US dollar. While this may not be visible in the [Read more...]

 

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In this week’s podcast Mark Schaltuper (Head of Latin America Analysis) and Terry Alexander (Head of Country Risk and Financial Markets) discuss the return of risk appetite to global markets. Assessing recent moves and a stronger-than-expected bounce in developed markets’ equities, we explore potential opportunities and the implications for emerging markets.

 

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Risk Watchdog and his colleagues at Business Monitor International (BMI) have grown very bullish Latin American currencies. Three views in particular stand out and form part of the BMI Global Key Market Views portfolio:

Last Friday, my colleagues at BMI initiated a long Chilean peso/short US dollar view, which hit the initial CLP510.00/US$ target within days, [Read more...]

During a week when the Dow Jones pushed above 10,000 and oil set up a new high this year, there certainly is plenty to look at across emerging markets (EM), and in particular in Latin America. Most Latin equities have been posting further impressive gains this week, and most currencies look strong against the US [Read more...]

Risk watchdog’s call of a 25bps hike in Mexico’s benchmark interest rate to 8.00% on July 18, based on poor inflation data and rising price expectations, proved correct, and supports the long-held bullish stance towards the Mexican peso. The hawkish decision by Banxico helped the peso break five-year highs of MXN10.22/US$, pushing on towards my [Read more...]