I have been positive on emerging markets for a while, maintaining that especially China and other Asian countries, as well as resource-based Latin American countries, would be the leaders of the economic recovery and stock market performance in the next upswing. These views are supported by a recent Q&A with Mark Mobius, Templeton Asset Management’s guru on emerging markets, as published in the company’s Market Views newsletter.

Emerging markets have been outperforming thus far in 2009, do you think this trend will continue for the rest of the year? Although we are optimistic about the opportunities for upside potential, it is important to realize the volatility is still with us and will be with us for some time. This means there will be periods when the markets go down as well as periods when they go up. We should therefore take advantage of

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I have been positive on emerging markets for a while, maintaining that especially China and other Asian countries, as well as resource-based Latin American countries, would be the leaders of the economic recovery and stock market performance in the next upswing. These views are supported by a recent Q&A with Mark Mobius, Templeton Asset Management’s guru on emerging markets, as published in the company’s Market Views newsletter.

Emerging markets have been outperforming thus far in 2009, do you think this trend will continue for the rest of the year? Although we are optimistic about the opportunities for upside potential, it is important to realize the volatility is still with us and will be with us for some time. This means there will be periods when the markets go down as well as periods when they go up. We should therefore take advantage of

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TODAY: Medvedev interview for Novaya Gazeta; North Korea should return to talks says Foreign Ministry; cluster munitions reportedly used in Georgia; Medvedev concerned about unemployment; transport spending to increaseUnlike his predecessor, President Dmitry Medvedev has granted an interview to Novaya Gazeta, in an apparent gesture of 'moral support' to the newspaper, which 'has suffered many losses' - two of its reporters murdered in three years.  Comments in the interview about 'democracy' and 'prosperity' seem to distinguish the Prime Minister from his ally Putin, reports the New York Times.  The Just Russia candidate in the Sochi election, Viktor Kurpitko, has been removed from the race, leaving the United Russia candidate and Boris Nemtsov as the forerunners. The New York Times reports upon an ...

The European Court of Human Rights has satisfied the application of former deputy director of the first department of Asia of the MFA of Russia Valentin Moiseyev, sentenced by the Moscow City Court in the year 2001 for state treason to 4.5 years of deprivation of liberty with confiscation of property. Valentin Moiseyev was taken into custody in July of the year 1998. They had brought charges of espionage in favor of South Korea against him. The FSB accused Moiseyev of having supposedly worked for the special services of South Korea from the year 1994 through the year 1998, passing on to them information comprising a state secret. According to the data of the investigation, he had conducted around 60 meetings with a representative of South Korean intelligence and had «passed on to him copies of 23 documents» concerning cooperation between ...