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Always cover your assets: Learn about offshore banking, investing, and asset protection. Now is the time to diversify your portfolio and move outside the U.S. and its sinking dollar.
Brazil Is Hitting the Town and Buying...Dollars?
Date: 05/15/2008Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Brazil has had some good fortune lately. On April 30, Standard and Poor’s upgraded the entire country and nine of Brazil’s banks to “investment grade.”
Almost immediately, pension funds and hedge funds from around the world poured money into this BRIC nation. In fact, Brazil sold over $500 million in bonds to these hungry investors. That doesn’t even count the investment assets that poured into Brazil’s stocks, real estate, etc.
See More [+]Safe Bonds With 7.35% Yield
Date: 05/14/2008Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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The U.S. dollar is now under incredible pressure, and the timing couldn’t be worse. The U.S. economy is also sinking fast. This places the Fed between a rock and a hard place. To support the greenback, the Fed needs to raise U.S. interest rates…but its classic response to the threat of an economic recession is to lower those same rates.
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Why I Like Brazilian Bonds Right Now
Date: 04/25/2008Friday, April 25, 2008
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Multicurrency investments can reap rich rewards right now. Take, for example, this multicurrency Brazilian investment.
See More [+]Amid Global Credit Crunch, It’s Business as Usual in Brazil
Date: 02/26/2008Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
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The U.S. credit crunch is far from over, as vulture-investors and Warren Buffett now circle the troubled monoline insurers. These distressed insurers, including Ambac and MBIA, are the latest victims of the “repricing of risk,” as the Oracle of Omaha calls it.
However, several thousand miles and worlds away from Wall Street, the credit crunch appears to be having little spillover impact on South America’s biggest economy.
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