Keep an eye on the Chinese and Brazilian stock markets on Monday.

The two emerging market nations - both members of the BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) - will each welcome a major new IPO to their respective stock markets.

The fact that they’re debuting on the same day is purely coincidental, but the story here is that both are very significant not only to their own countries, but could also underpin the emerging market area.

Let’s take a look at these IPOs in the context of the broader emerging market topic… the effect this often volatile but flourishing pack of nations is having on the global economy - and how you can hitch a ride…

Emerging Markets Rebuilding Momentum

In the excellent movie “Wall Street,” Michael Douglas’s slimy Gordon Gekko character famously proclaims, “Greed is good. Greed works.”

Some equally unscrupulous Wall Street characters lived by this mantra. But they became so fat

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India's Wholesale Price Inflation Enters Negative Territory, But No Risk of DeflationIndia's Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the first week of June went sub-zero for the first time in 35 years. The fall is largely due to the high base effect caused by the sudden jump in prices of fuel and power as well as manufactured goods last year.The WPI had reported an 11.7% rise for the first week of June 2008. The situation has changed a lot since then. Due to the bloated base, the current decline seems to be of more statistical significance.Decline in wholesale prices however provides some scope to the Reserve Bank of India to cut interest rates again in order to offer additional stimulus to the economy. The central bank estimates that three stimulus packages already announced, along with six interest-rate cuts in last ...