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Pew Survey: 98% of Greeks Consider Economic Situation as “Bad” (KeepTalkingGreece.com)

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According to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center, a staggering 98% of Greeks view their current economic situation as “bad.” READ MORE  

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Greece Offers Opportunities For Investors Willing to Take Risks (FT)

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From cinemas to gold mines, foreign companies are expanding into the challenging Greek market as Greece offers opportunities rarely found in central and south-east European markets. READ MORE

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Bloomberg’s Misery Index’s Most Miserable Emerging Markets

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Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which combines countries’ 2017 inflation and unemployment outlooks, ranks Venezuela number one for the third year in a row followed by a number of usual and mostly emerging market suspects: South Africa, Argentina, Greece, Turkey, Spain, the … Continue reading →

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The World’s Biggest Sovereign Debt Defaults (CNBC)

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While Greece and Puerto Rico’s debt-wrangling continues to be in a spotlight, CNBC recently did a slideshow on the largest sovereign debt defaults around the world with the top 10 being: 10. Ecuador When: December, 2008 Size of default: $3.2 … Continue reading →

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The 15 Most Miserable Emerging Market Economies (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg has come up with a list of the fifteen most miserable economies (with most being emerging markets) in the world with their 2015 misery index being calculated (using the latest research, private forecasts and survey data) as follows: unemployment … Continue reading →

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Greece is Downgraded to Emerging Market Status (The Telegraph)

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Greece has been downgraded to an emerging market by S&P Dow Jones Indices and was assigned a weighting of 0.8% in the emerging market index. In contrast, China constitutes about a quarter (24%) of the index while Brazil and India … Continue reading →

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Eleven Frontier or Emerging Markets Near Bankruptcy (USA Today)

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Argentina is not the only country that has struggled or failed to pay its debt in recent years. Nor the only country with a severely impaired credit rating. Read the whole article, Not just Argentina: 11 countries near bankruptcy, on … Continue reading →

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How ECB QE Could Impact Emerging Markets (FT)

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The European Central Bank’s monthly rate decision is due on Thursday with ECB President Mario Draghi widely expected to announce an easing of monetary policy to stave off stubbornly low inflation and European government bond yields have rallied to record … Continue reading →

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Invest in Poorer Performing Emerging Markets for Better Gains? (CNBC)

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Ruchir Sharma, the head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has told CNBC (Are emerging market underdogs the best bet?): “If you invest those economies which have done very poorly over the last five years, the prospects of … Continue reading →

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