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Telefonica: There’s A Significant Upside At This Valuation In 2023 (Seeking Alpha)

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Venezuela – A Multi-Bagger Recovery Play?

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Russia Proposes New Standard To Compete With RIGGED London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) (Capitalist Exploits via Zero Hedge)

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Venezuela’s Capitalist Playground Has $200,000 Ferraris and a Bustling Casino (Bloomberg)

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President Nicolás Maduro, ally of the late revolutionary Hugo Chávez, lets pockets of free enterprise thrive, helping spark a still-fragile economic turnaround. READ MORE

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In No Good Hands: The Venezuela Crisis and Consequences for South America (Moody’s Analytics)

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has solidified his grip on power following recent presidential elections, his victory all but ruling out prospects for a much-needed course correction in economic policy. This paper assesses the economic consequences for Venezuela and the rest … Continue reading →

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Why Venezuela Can’t Be Like Colombia (RealClear World)

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In 2013, Nicolas Maduro succeeded Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela. In the ensuing five years, Maduro relied on populism, much like his predecessor did, while driving Venezuela’s economy to ruin. And yet he secured a second term over the … Continue reading →

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How Fast Are Prices Skyrocketing in Venezuela? See Exhibit A: the Egg (WSJ)

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A Jesuit priest, Alfredo Infante, has turned to a novel formula to keep up with skyrocketing costs: He meticulously tracks the price of the humble egg. Six months ago, donations from one Sunday mass could buy 30 eggs for church … Continue reading →

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Thanks to US Pressure, Maduro’s Reckoning is Coming (The Hill)

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On Thursday, the U.S. used its latest round of sanctions on 10 current and former government officials to emphasize its commitment to denouncing fraudulent elections in Venezuela as well as promoting the human rights of those suffering under Maduro’s corrupt … Continue reading →

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Political Reckonings Loom in Pivotal Elections Across Latin America (WPR)

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This year, voters will choose presidents in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Paraguay and Costa Rica. Venezuela will also hold a presidential election, or so says President Nicolas Maduro. What is remarkable in the elections in the first three— Brazil, Mexico and … Continue reading →

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Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) Now Verges on Collapse (NYT)

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The state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, known as Pdvsa, teeters on the brink of collapse, its failures at once a symptom and a cause of the nation’s downward economic spiral. READ MORE [Adsense-B]

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5 Major Conservative Victories in Latin America in 2017 (Breitbart)

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Latin American politics for the past decade has been driven by a continental debate on the merits of socialism – a debate that, thanks to the devastating humanitarian situation in Venezuela, conservatives are increasingly poised to win. READ MORE [Adsense-B]

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Venezuela is Borrowing Money at Any Cost (WP)

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Venezuela’s most expensive habit appears to be its addiction to credit, no matter what the cost. In recent years, President Nicolás Maduro has faithfully met the country’s debt service obligations to its paymasters in Manhattan and Beijing while sharply cutting … Continue reading →

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Venezuelan Opposition Threatens Country Won’t Pay Goldman Sachs’ $2.8B Bond Deal (CNBC)

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Julio Borges, leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly, has said that a future Venezuelan government may not pay $2.8 billion in bonds that Goldman Sachs purchased for as little as 30 cents on the dollar. Borges said Goldman was helping to support … Continue reading →

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Why Have Venezuela’s Elites Stuck by President Nicolás Maduro? (NYT)

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Emerging Market Companies & Governments Binge on US Dollar Debt (WSJ)

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Emerging market companies and governments are binging on U.S. dollar debt – selling $179 billion in dollar-denominated debt in the first quarter – the most dollar debt ever raised in the first quarter and more than double the amount raised … Continue reading →

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Venezuela Seizes General Motors’ Assembly Plant (NYT)

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Latin American Political Turmoil is Roiling These Markets (Bloomberg)

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Socialist Venezuela Runs Out of Beer

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On Monday, Venezuela Government inspectors accompanied by National Guard troops arrived at two beer plants operated by the country’s largest private company, Empresas Polar, to determine if there really was no imported malted barley to brew. Empresas Polar closed down … Continue reading →

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In Socialist Venezuela, Hungry Soldiers are Stealing Goats (CNBC)

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Its so bad in Socialist Venezuela, the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported Sunday that six (hungry) members of the Venezuelan military were detained by local authorities for stealing goats since they had no food left in their barracks. Jason Marczak, … Continue reading →

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Disorderly Venezuela Default on an Argentina scale is Almost Inevitable (FT)

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Ricardo Hausmann, a director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, has written in the Financial Times that a disorderly Venezuela default, on a scale similar to the Argentina debt default crisis, is almost inevitable. To begin with, … Continue reading →

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Emerging Market Risk Ranking: Most Vulnerable to the Strongest (FT)

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The beyondbrics blog notes that in the book “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma,” Andrew Karolyi, a professor of Emerging Market Finance at Cornell’s Johnson School, has come up with a matrix ranking 57 emerging markets and developed markets according to … Continue reading →

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Is There Progress Fighting Latin American Corruption? (Economist)

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The Economist has noted that two thirds of Latin American countries languish in the bottom half of Transparency International’s “corruption perceptions index” with the following recent events probably leaving investors wondering if corruption in the region will ever be brought under … 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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Prudent Ways to Invest in Frontier Markets (WSJ)

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Frontier market economies are growing faster than emerging markets ones but investors need to keep some risk considerations in mind according to Patricia Oey, a senior analyst with Morningstar Inc who wrote a paper in December titled: “Frontier Markets Begin … Continue reading →

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New Fragile Five Facing a Forex Crisis: Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Ukraine & Venezuela (Institutional Investor)

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James Shinn, the Chairman of Teneo Intelligence, has written a lengthy article for Institutional Investor detailing a new set of so-called Fragile Five emerging markets that could face a foreign exchange crisis. To begin with, Shinn does a survey of global … Continue reading →

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Venezuela Hits Corporate Profits at These US Companies (Reuters)

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Reuters has a lengthy article about how the growing economic mess in Venezuela along with the weakness of its Bolivar and restrictive currency controls have hurt US corporate profits for the fourth quarter of 2014 and will continue to cause more … 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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S&W’s McGrath: Emerging Markets Are at the Perfect Entry Point (FE Trustnet)

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Smith & Williamson’s Richard McGrath has told FE Trustnet that the next 12 months will see a strong re-rating in emerging markets and that investors should buy into them now as they have reached an inflection point. Moreover, he believes … Continue reading →

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ING IM’s Ruijer: China and the Fed are the Biggest Risks to Frontier Markets (Citywire)

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ING IM’s Marco Ruijer, who runs the ING EM Debt Hard Currency fund along with a Frontier Markets debt fund, has recently told Citywire Global that a Chinese growth slowdown and US monetary policy are the biggest risk factors for … Continue reading →

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