Latin America is gaining a larger share of global foreign direct investment according to a recent UN report. FDI to Latin America grew by 27% in 2011, outpacing global growth of 16% and growth in other developing regions. This reflects Latin America's growing economic strength from natural resources as well as sustained economic growth boosting other sectors like manufacturing and services. The growth rate of FDI to Latin America is expected to remain strong in 2012 despite more uncertainty in the global economy.
Your Investments and the Weakening DollarInvestingTips
The greenback has been sliding against other currencies for months now. How about your investments and the weakening dollar?
The dollar has fallen by an eighth against a basket of currencies since its high point in March. How will a weakening dollar affect your investments? The last point of comparison was in 2017. Why is the dollar falling? Will the current trend continue? And, how should you position your investment portfolio to account for a weakening dollar?
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FedEx Predicts a Global Economic Downturn
Stocks have retreated from multiyear highs and FedEx predicts a global economic downturn. The stock market highs were from an expected economic boost from Federal Reserve bond purchases. Some of the almost immediate retreat from these highs is certainly from profit taking by short term traders. However, the state of the global economy is far from healthy. Witness that FedEx predicts a global economic downturn based on its own projections in the shipping business. The assumption by FedEx and others is that high fuel prices and slowing trade will function as a drag on business well into 2013. Although the Fed stimulus plan may help the USA it will not help Chinese exports to debt ridden Europe. The US will likely see a boost to the housing market and more investment in home industry based on how the Fed stimulus plan is expected to operate. Over the long haul the fact that the US is printing money to get out of the recession for good will likely devalue the US dollar. That is another problem for China and other Asian export driven economies as exports from the USA will become more competitive.
Europe and Asia
Although an out and out Greek financial collapse has not happened the debt problem in Europe seems endless. The eventual solution may be the same as the USA is applying, print money to stimulate industry, pay off debts, and devalue the currency to make the economy more competitive. In the meantime the Chinese economy has slowed, the Chinese housing bubble is still a threat, and economies across Asia are feeling the pinch of fewer exports to Europe. A company like FedEx predicts a global economic downturn based on less business and their unique view of international shipments. As economies shrink companies are reverting to sea routes instead of shipping by air which directly affects the bottom line for companies like UPS, DHL, and FedEx.
A Unique View of World Markets
A company such as FedEx does business in the four corners of the globe. As such it gets a clear and early view of what is going on everywhere. Thus, when Fedex predicts a global downturn investors are wise to listen. To a degree FedEx profits have positive correlation with global business. Something that FedEx and industries in the world have in common is paying energy costs. The rise in fuel prices over the last year or more has been a drag on the economy. Part of the rise has been because of expanding business coming out the depths of the recession. And part has been to so called Iran tax, the price that has been built in to crude oil prices due to reduced exports from Iran and the threat of Iran shutting the Straits of Hormuz in response to trade sanctions or the threat of war in that part of the world due to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
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A sustained dollar rally is exposing the challenging conditions that lie ahead for the global currency markets.
The Canadian Dollar: A History of Ups & DownsShannon Boschy
Currency moves are often under-recognized as an influence that can work both ways, as nobody knows for
certain where the dollar will go. Currency fluctuations represent only one component of overall market action
and investors remain well-served with appropriate global and asset mix diversification within an appropriate
financial plan.
Your Investments and the Weakening DollarInvestingTips
The greenback has been sliding against other currencies for months now. How about your investments and the weakening dollar?
The dollar has fallen by an eighth against a basket of currencies since its high point in March. How will a weakening dollar affect your investments? The last point of comparison was in 2017. Why is the dollar falling? Will the current trend continue? And, how should you position your investment portfolio to account for a weakening dollar?
https://youtu.be/ATnb2EGFaC4
FedEx Predicts a Global Economic DownturnInvestingTips
By www.ProfitableInvestingTips.com
FedEx Predicts a Global Economic Downturn
Stocks have retreated from multiyear highs and FedEx predicts a global economic downturn. The stock market highs were from an expected economic boost from Federal Reserve bond purchases. Some of the almost immediate retreat from these highs is certainly from profit taking by short term traders. However, the state of the global economy is far from healthy. Witness that FedEx predicts a global economic downturn based on its own projections in the shipping business. The assumption by FedEx and others is that high fuel prices and slowing trade will function as a drag on business well into 2013. Although the Fed stimulus plan may help the USA it will not help Chinese exports to debt ridden Europe. The US will likely see a boost to the housing market and more investment in home industry based on how the Fed stimulus plan is expected to operate. Over the long haul the fact that the US is printing money to get out of the recession for good will likely devalue the US dollar. That is another problem for China and other Asian export driven economies as exports from the USA will become more competitive.
Europe and Asia
Although an out and out Greek financial collapse has not happened the debt problem in Europe seems endless. The eventual solution may be the same as the USA is applying, print money to stimulate industry, pay off debts, and devalue the currency to make the economy more competitive. In the meantime the Chinese economy has slowed, the Chinese housing bubble is still a threat, and economies across Asia are feeling the pinch of fewer exports to Europe. A company like FedEx predicts a global economic downturn based on less business and their unique view of international shipments. As economies shrink companies are reverting to sea routes instead of shipping by air which directly affects the bottom line for companies like UPS, DHL, and FedEx.
A Unique View of World Markets
A company such as FedEx does business in the four corners of the globe. As such it gets a clear and early view of what is going on everywhere. Thus, when Fedex predicts a global downturn investors are wise to listen. To a degree FedEx profits have positive correlation with global business. Something that FedEx and industries in the world have in common is paying energy costs. The rise in fuel prices over the last year or more has been a drag on the economy. Part of the rise has been because of expanding business coming out the depths of the recession. And part has been to so called Iran tax, the price that has been built in to crude oil prices due to reduced exports from Iran and the threat of Iran shutting the Straits of Hormuz in response to trade sanctions or the threat of war in that part of the world due to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Synergy FX - How Strong Is Too Strong? Surging Dollar Hits Emerging Economies
A sustained dollar rally is exposing the challenging conditions that lie ahead for the global currency markets.
The Canadian Dollar: A History of Ups & DownsShannon Boschy
Currency moves are often under-recognized as an influence that can work both ways, as nobody knows for
certain where the dollar will go. Currency fluctuations represent only one component of overall market action
and investors remain well-served with appropriate global and asset mix diversification within an appropriate
financial plan.
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This lesson focuses on global economic flows. Global trade operates through various economic networks such as supply chains, international production networks, global commodity chains and, most importantly, global value chains. Global
value chains follow the creation of value through different stages, from the creation of a product, to its disposal after use.
This is a recording of a revision webinar exploring some of the causes of financial crises in developed and emerging market countries. There are many different types of crises ranging from currency/external debt crises to disturbances in banking systems.
The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the discussion of a number of issues concerning macroeconomic policies that should be appropriate for developing countries. We shall take into account the broader political picture of changes in the international economy, reflected objectively in terms of the nature of the balance of payments constraints facing the ‘emerging markets’ and specially the Latin American economies since the early 1990s. It is within this wider context that we present our account of the particular case of Brazil.
the Brazilian experience has some peculiarities that make it an interesting testing ground for the presumed benefits of the process of financial globalization and the policies of trade and financial opening.
Many will agree that the slow growth and extremely high inflation experienced in Brazil in the 1980s had much to do with debt crisis and the subsequent interruption of capital flows towards Latin America. Indeed, in what became known as the ‘lost decade’ Brazil experienced a severe balance of payments constraint that slowed growth and triggered the acceleration of inflation. Since the early 1990s, foreign capital started again flowing towards Brazil in large quantities, first mainly as portfolio capital but towards the end of the decade more and more as foreign direct investment. one could well have expected that this large amount of foreign capital would improve ‘quality’ (presumably increasingly ‘cold’ rather than ‘hot’ money), by alleviating the balance of payments constraint, and would have had a big effect on both inflation stabilization and in the resumption of fast economic growth.
However, what the actual record shows is that the impact on inflation stabilization, although starting a bit late, only by mid-1994, was in fact more drastic than anybody could have reasonably expected. Inflation fell spectacularly and has remained extremely low ever since. on the other hand, the growth performance was, to say the very least, extremely disappointing. this chapter will try to make sense of this experience using a combination of some features of the international situation and of particular policies followed by the Brazilian state.
Most Latin American economies followed more or less the same broad pattern of fast disinflation and slow growth with the notable exception of Chile and partial exception of Argentina. therefore the Brazilian story, in spite of its peculiarities, may arguably be seen to reflect a more general pattern.
We shall begin our discussion in the following section with a brief account of the operation of the current international monetary system, a system that we call the ‘floating dollar standard’, and of other salient features of the international trade and financial environment faced by the ‘emerging’ developing economies since the early 1990s. the third section shows how this new international environment affects and changes the nature of the balance
CBRE 31-12-12, global vision about property markets. A little late to share it, but an interesting document to keep up-to-date with the real estate investment world.
Ashton Global seeks to identify emerging portfolio managers that generate alpha by investing in non-traditional equities and special opportunities.
https://www.ashtonglobal.com/
https://twitter.com/ashtonglobal
https://www.facebook.com/ashtonglobal?ref=hl
This lesson focuses on global economic flows. Global trade operates through various economic networks such as supply chains, international production networks, global commodity chains and, most importantly, global value chains. Global
value chains follow the creation of value through different stages, from the creation of a product, to its disposal after use.
This is a recording of a revision webinar exploring some of the causes of financial crises in developed and emerging market countries. There are many different types of crises ranging from currency/external debt crises to disturbances in banking systems.
The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the discussion of a number of issues concerning macroeconomic policies that should be appropriate for developing countries. We shall take into account the broader political picture of changes in the international economy, reflected objectively in terms of the nature of the balance of payments constraints facing the ‘emerging markets’ and specially the Latin American economies since the early 1990s. It is within this wider context that we present our account of the particular case of Brazil.
the Brazilian experience has some peculiarities that make it an interesting testing ground for the presumed benefits of the process of financial globalization and the policies of trade and financial opening.
Many will agree that the slow growth and extremely high inflation experienced in Brazil in the 1980s had much to do with debt crisis and the subsequent interruption of capital flows towards Latin America. Indeed, in what became known as the ‘lost decade’ Brazil experienced a severe balance of payments constraint that slowed growth and triggered the acceleration of inflation. Since the early 1990s, foreign capital started again flowing towards Brazil in large quantities, first mainly as portfolio capital but towards the end of the decade more and more as foreign direct investment. one could well have expected that this large amount of foreign capital would improve ‘quality’ (presumably increasingly ‘cold’ rather than ‘hot’ money), by alleviating the balance of payments constraint, and would have had a big effect on both inflation stabilization and in the resumption of fast economic growth.
However, what the actual record shows is that the impact on inflation stabilization, although starting a bit late, only by mid-1994, was in fact more drastic than anybody could have reasonably expected. Inflation fell spectacularly and has remained extremely low ever since. on the other hand, the growth performance was, to say the very least, extremely disappointing. this chapter will try to make sense of this experience using a combination of some features of the international situation and of particular policies followed by the Brazilian state.
Most Latin American economies followed more or less the same broad pattern of fast disinflation and slow growth with the notable exception of Chile and partial exception of Argentina. therefore the Brazilian story, in spite of its peculiarities, may arguably be seen to reflect a more general pattern.
We shall begin our discussion in the following section with a brief account of the operation of the current international monetary system, a system that we call the ‘floating dollar standard’, and of other salient features of the international trade and financial environment faced by the ‘emerging’ developing economies since the early 1990s. the third section shows how this new international environment affects and changes the nature of the balance
CBRE 31-12-12, global vision about property markets. A little late to share it, but an interesting document to keep up-to-date with the real estate investment world.
This workshop introduced the power of XML and XSLT to delegates. It used an innovative solution of Apache Cocoon on a single server and form-based file upload to allow delegates to quickly and simply see the effect of applying XSL transformations on their markup.
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This slide is created by Alanda Kariza, Indonesian representative for Global Changemakers at the London Summit 2009. She presented about Indonesia's condition and her suggestions to strengthen the global economy.
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investment: Latin America Platinum
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The flow of investment towards Latin America presents a
promising future. Make the most of the XLVI Annual Felaban
Assembly, Lima 2012 to explore those opportunities.
One of the consequences of 2008’s international an average of 10% of global FDI. In 2011, the region’s
financial crisis has been a reduction in the global flow share of the global FDI was 15%.
of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ever since. However This reflects Latin America’s status as an ever
according to the latest UNCTAD investment report, in safer and more attractive destination for international Gold
2011 the worldwide FDI flow increased by 16%, returning investment, mostly due to the sound economic
to levels seen in years prior to the crisis, in spite of the foundations being laid by countries in the region. While
global economy not yet having got back to the levels of natural resources are undoubtedly a strong draw for
dynamism enjoyed at that time. capital, Latin America’s sustained economic growth is
The region of Latin America is taking on a very also reverberating in consumption and in the size of the
important and expanding role in this process. The region’s markets. This process is yielding high returns
flow of FDI towards Latin America and the Caribbean to investors, leading various sectors, including services
(excluding offshore finance centers) has increased by and manufacturing to also find themselves as targets
around 27% in 2011, driven mainly by South America. for major international investors.
This level of growth was not only superior to the In 2012, the growth rate of the flow of FDI towards Silver
global rate for the same period, but also to that of Latin America is anticipated to be similar to that recorded
all developing countries (21%). Thanks to this, Latin in 2011, in spite of the increase in uncertainty over the
America’s share in the total global FDI flow is increasing. global economy. Likewise, the prospect for coming
For the 2005-2007 period, Latin America represented years remains favorable.
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