Best Emerging-Market Stock Pickers Buy Drugmakers to Retail

The only three emerging-market stock pickers who avoided losing money for clients in the worst first-half rout since 1998 say now’s the time to buy Philippine retailers, Chinese Internet companies and Indian drugmakers.

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Closing the Fortune 500's Emerging Markets Gap

If you truly have your eyes on the prize, then you deploy your best people and biggest investments against that goal.  But are executives really putting this truism into practice? McKinsey & Company studied the performance of more than 1,600 U.S. companies over a 15 year-period (1990-2005).

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3M Eyes Big Growth In Emerging Markets

Improved penetration in the consumer and healthcare sectors of the developing world, including Asia-Pacific and Latin America, can add significant growth to sales and profits of 3M over the coming years.

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The Next Billion Customers: Emerging Markets

Apple, Google and Facebook are arguably the defining technology brands of the current generation, and are each vying to define the next. All three have enjoyed scarcely believable success and growth over the past fifteen years -- driven first by the dot-com boom and more importantly by the cell phone and smartphone revolution, and everything that has come with it in terms of content and applications.

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Google Pursuing Broad Wireless Project for Emerging Markets

Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, moves that could bring the Internet to a further billion people.

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Abu Dhabi Fund ADIA Turning to Emerging Markets

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is reducing target exposures to developed market stocks and looking for growth in emerging markets, the sovereign wealth fund that is one of the world's biggest investors said on Monday.

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Emerging Markets Better Rated During Difficult Times

Publics around the world are decidedly unhappy about their nations’ economies. Most are displeased with current economic conditions and concerned about rising economic inequality; few are optimistic about the coming year. However, at the same time, most global publics say their personal finances are in better shape than their national economies, according to a new 39-nation survey.

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Emerging Markets Targeted for Exports

At the ministry's meeting yesterday with 65 Thai trade counselors posted overseas, private-sector representatives and the Bank of Thailand, the consensus was that the baht's strength and sluggish global trading would make it more difficult to achieve the high export target this year. 

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UAE Benefits From Influx of Emerging Market Capital

The UAE has emerged as the key beneficiary among the Gulf Cooperation Council nations of the increased inflow of private capital mostly from India, China and Russia, owing to the political stability and ideal local investment opportunity in the country, according to a study.
 
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Consumer Stocks Shine in Emerging Markets

A broad collapse of company profits in the developing world shows no sign of abating, forcing investors to tilt portfolios towards sectors such as healthcare or consumer goods where margins are more robust.

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BlackBerry Focuses on Emerging Markets with Q5

BlackBerry is counting on growth in emerging markets such as Brazil and Indonesia with a cheaper smartphone and a plan to expand the popular instant-messaging system that helped drive growth in those countries.

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Central Banks Want to Hold Emerging-Market Currencies

Central banks want to add Chinese yuan and other emerging market currencies to their emergency cash stocks, according to a new International Monetary Fund survey, a change that could redefine the world’s reserve currencies.

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Mondelez Targets Emerging Markets Growth

 

Mondelez International is reinvesting some of its profits in emerging markets, which account for nearly 40 per cent of its revenues, as it seeks to expand in countries where demand for snacks is showing most growth.

 

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