Where have all the Spaniards gone? – BBC News 10-03-14

Salient to Investors: Fundacion Alternativas said 700,000 Spaniards left Spain between 2008 and 2012. The National Statistics Institute reports 547,890 left in 2013, 79,306 of them Spanish nationals born in Spain. Spaniards are fleeing 25% unemployment and flocking to Latin America, including Brazil, where language barriers are few, the cost of

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Markets punish South America’s Bad and Ugly economies – BBC News 02-02-14

Salient to Investors: Investors are abandoning emerging economies, good and bad, for the US. Morgan Stanley said Brazil, Indonesia, India, South Africa and Turkey are the Fragile Five – all with large deficits, slowing growth and vulnerable currencies. Argentina is generally credited with starting the general panic after playing fast and

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Latin America Disappoints After Squandering Commodity Boom – Bloomberg 05-29-13

Salient to Investors: Latin America is disappointing investors, economists and businesses with slower-than-forecast growth as waning commodity prices and strong currencies hit nations that failed to diversify and become more competitive. Economists cut Brazil’s 2013 outlook for the second time in 7 days, forecasting the worst 3-year period in a decade.

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Rich-poor divide accelerating, says OECD – BBC News 05-15-13

Salient to Investors: The OECD said: The gap between rich and poor widened more in the 3 years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years. The richest 10% of society in the 33 OECD countries received 9.5 times that of the poorest in terms of income, versus 9 times in 2007.

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Cheesy Group Photos Symbolize Economic Paralysis – Bloomberg 09-03-12

Salient to Investors: William Pesek predicts the  Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will end in disappointment. The paucity of accomplishments over the last two decades shows it to be too disparate economically, geographically and ideologically. Brunei, Chile, Russia, the U.S. and Vietnam share a widening income gap Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-03/cheesy-group-photos-symbolize-economic-paralysis.html

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