Msci Emerging Markets

Emerging markets investors have always been renowned investor Jim Rogers, on their side. Now - after the bubble from China, India, Latin America and others have broken out - they can trust the word of the investor Mark Mobius, who said emerging markets are "hollow" in route to a phase of Bull in 2009.

In a recent interview with Bloomberg Television, Mobius said there are "terrific bargains everywhere" and its biggest holdings are in Asia, adding that he is "aggressive" buying Chinese stocks.

emerging market stocks have nosedived this year at a rate much faster than the indices of major economies richest. So far this year, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, a benchmark for shares in 24 developing countries fell by 53% - due mainly to declining commodity prices and the credit freeze to worldwide.

Stocks of Russia knocked out the most challenging its shares plunged 72% this year. Stocks in India fell by 65% this year. Brazil and China stocks are down 56% and 52% respectively this year, MarketWatch reported.

"We're starting to see this floor," said Mobius, who oversees $ 26 billion in emerging market equities as executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd. "I believe that next year we will begin to Bull next phase. The amount of money goes into the system must find a home. "

He has a point. The BRIC economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - each stimulus has unveiled plans to boost domestic consumption and to develop GNP.

• The Brazilian government has requested 3.6 billion dollars in tax cuts on personal income, consumer lending and automotive.

• In November, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and former president unveiled a stimulus of $ 20 billion, which included a reduction of taxes on profits.
• The Indian government said in early December it would spend over 4 billion dollars from December to March 2009 than previously expected.

• China $ 586 billion economic stimulus plan is one for the record books. The modernization of the infrastructure will pump loads of money in low-income housing, water and energy, airports, emergency operations and railways over the next two years.

And these packages are over several reductions in interest rates of each of the BRIC economies.

"What you see is a return to emerging markets, primarily because those markets are the cheapest" and economies are growing fast, Mobius told Bloomberg. "He There is no reason why they now should not be the first to draw the attention of investors. "

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