From the category archives:

Middle East

When it comes to investing in emerging markets, that’s one area in which you really should play it safe.  Not only are you not familiar with any (or most) of the companies, but precisely because some of them may be operating in more politically and geographically unpredictable regions, risk is a higher factor.
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With news that Osama Bin Laden had been shot and killed by US forces on Sunday evening (between May 1 and May 2 in Pakistan), oil prices dropped and seemed to take other commodities down with it.  More than three hours after the initial announcement on CNN, all commodities have sold off and analysts are [...]

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Protests in Madison, Wisconsin (USA) would otherwise appear to be a home-grown, Tea-Partyish type of movement (indeed, Tea Partiers were a large contingent protesting in support of the bill) were it not for the past two weeks of protests that appear to be spreading (if not necessarily “escalating”) throughout much of the Middle East, and [...]

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The other day, a reader reminded me of the post I wrote a year and a half ago on the coming double-digit inflation.  More and more, lately in the news we hear snippets about inflation cropping up in the food prices around the world.  Yet inflation is still almost taboo to talk about inside the [...]

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Don’t freak out at the phrase “new world order:” this isn’t about conspiracy.  The fact is that 2011 is likely to be the year that China most definitively transitions to first place as the world’s foremost economic power.  And with China’s economic ascendancy, so follows the economic rise of China’s key trading partners, many of [...]

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With all the global investment attention on China, India and Latin America, now’s a good time to research African equities and African ETFs for your frontier markets portfolio.
Most people still think of Africa’s wealth in terms of its natural resources – gold, diamonds, oil.  This is true, but the fact is that capitalism has trickled [...]

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“Saudi Arabia isn’t just running out of oil — it’s running out of water.  So is the whole region.”  So explains Jeff Rubin in his latest book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller (2009) (read my review of Jeff Rubin here).
If you thought it was bad enough to see the [...]

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