Four of the world’s leading emerging markets, accounting for ~40% of global population and ~25% of land mass (and associated natural resources), with an uncreative acronym bestowed by a Goldman Sachs economist in the early-2000s.
After making millions trading in the markets of advanced economies in Europe and North America, little Jimmy decided to explore Earth’s other investable economies, so he packed his bow tie and bought tickets to the BRIC countries to do some primary research.
On his trip, he learned that Brazil and Russia have the potential to dominate the world’s supply of raw materials, while India and China could take the reins in manufacturing and outsourced services.
Now he has to decide whether it makes more sense to form amicable bonds with these markets...or agitate them with a trade war. We don't envy poor Jimmy's decision.
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Finance, a la shmoop. What is a country basket index fund?
All right we're picking daisies, marigolds, lilies so uh how do we [Pictures of flowers]
rephrase in Italian? Like, we want to fill a portfolio basket with just stocks [Pouring a glass of red wine]
representing the overall financial health of Italy. Is Italy healthy? While
they smoke a lot they drink a lot of wine they eat a bunch of pasta but there
always seems to be a woman from some small village who's celebrating her [Old woman at a birthday party]
117th birthday over there. Well a country basket is just an index fund of
stocks representing a country. Like we're doing Korea... South we're gonna have
in that basket dunno some Samsung, a load of Daewoo, a hunk of Hyundai and some [Company stocks being added to the basket]
nice barbecue on the side. That'd be our Korean country basket and it's a good
basket to fill if you're just bullish on a country but not really sure which
flower on which to place your bets. It's like instead of trying to decide between [The stocks in the basket turn into flowers]
roulette or poker or slots... Well you just buy stock in Las Vegas
Sands you know you bet on the entire casino, and bueno Fortuna you know good [Someone checking their cards in a casino]
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