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Chile’s SQM To Open Plant In Brazil, Mulls Entering India
Dow Jones Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM, SQM-B.SN), one of the globe’s leading fertilizer and specialty chemical producers, will expand into Brazil and is evaluating setting up shop in India, the company’s chief executive was quoted as saying Friday by daily newspaper El Mercurio. SQM, which is the global leader in iodine [...]
Ultra Rice technology in India, Brazil and Colombia
A simple bowl of white rice sits on a conference table inside the Seattle headquarters of global-health nonprofit PATH. What looks and tastes like ordinary rice is actually the product of two decades of research and development. For every 100 grains of rice, the bowl contains one grain of Ultra Rice. It’s actually not rice [...]
India’s Tata Consultancy Services to double Latin America sales
India’s top software service exporter, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), sees Latin American sales more than doubling by 2015 as the company targets one of the world’s fastest growing regions. TCS, which is owned by India’s biggest industrial conglomerate, provides IT, consultancy and outsourcing services in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. “We [...]
Nation rehabilitation: Colombia emerges from shadows, and eyes strong trade partnership with India
Colombia – the only risk is wanting to stay Minister Santos speaking after 2010 CII Indo-LAC ConclaveThe Globe and Mail Indeed, The New York Times listed Colombia in its top 31 places to go in 2010, saying Bogotá has become “a role model of urban reinvention,” and calls Cartagena the next Buenos Aires. Lonely Planet [...]
Bigger role seen for financial centres like Mumbai in India and Sao Paulo in Brazil
Reuters With developed economies struggling and emerging markets thriving, more and more financial deals are being cut well away from the traditional centres. Rising trade between emerging economies, cross-border mergers, acquisitions by Indian and Chinese companies and moves by developing world businesses to raise capital in each other’s markets will spur growth of financial centres [...]
Agriculture is one of the great places to be – Jim Rogers on Bloomberg UTV in India
Jim speaking at an event – “Investment strategies in an emerging financial lanscape”. Funny to see the Indian interviewer’s (probably an MBA!) WTF reaction to Jim’s comments on agriculture. In trying to sell the attractiveness of the farming business in South America to potential investors, I’ve found the going rough in India. People cannot imagine [...]
IBSA: Challenges of social progress for Brazil, India, South Africa
IBSA – “A people’s project”The Japan Times Online Governments from the South are assuming leading roles in decisions on global issues such as climate change, health governance, trade regimes, and water and food security. Complementing the new economic and geopolitical importance of the developing world is the rapid pace of South-South investment, cooperation and trade. [...]
Buy Farmland and Soft Commodities like sugar, cotton:How to Invest Like Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers again talking about how depressed agriculture commodities are relatively to others which have boomed recently and that is where investors should look. (Sugar is still off 70% of its all-time high reached in 1974, Wheat – he doesn’t mention it, is at 200 yr lows, in inflation-adjusted terms.) TheStreet.com Jim Rogers, legendary contrarian investor, [...]
Developing economies should invest in each other
Successful LatAm companies and wealthy LatAm individuals would be reluctant to invest in Asia, given they are coming from a culltural framework of high uncertainty avoidance. Investing and doing business in tried and tested regions like the U.S. and Europe is preferred over the new.Times LIVE A preferential trade agreement (PTA) between the Southern Africa [...]
Latin America: India’s next frontier
Image via Wikipedia I think the India-Latin America trade corridor is one of the last frontiers in business. India does more trade with Africa – 2-way flows about $40 billlion, which has a fraction of the overall GDP($2,5Tn at PPP) compared to Latin America (almost $6Tn at PPP) – 2-way flows about $16billion. So, the [...]
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