Wal-mart de Mexico
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Earnings Season Review and Outlook 2013
By Jay Ralez - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: CZZ, EA, FNMA, LNVGY.PK, MONI, NQ, NOK, TEF, VELT, WMMVY.PK
I am reading my stocks earnings releases now since its earnings season and I havent reviewed anything in months.Cosan http://cosan.com.br/Cosan is doing great all around and has just finished integrating Brazils largest natural gas pipeline into its portfolio. I like the pipeline business. The sugar business is also expanding and Cosan's partnership with Amyris for the development of sugar based hydrocarbons to replace petroleum more » -
Mexican M&A Candidates
By Federico Zaldua - April 4, 2013 | Tickers: ASR, TV, WMMVY.PK
The market is long Mexico. During the first three months of this year, the country has led the Latin American pack for share sales and M&A activity. The reasons are to be found in Mexico's renewed growth prospects. The IMF expects the country to grow by 3.5% this year and next as Mexico’s export-led economy benefits from an increasingly active US economy. According to Dealogic, in more »
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Retail is Tough to Translate Abroad
By Nick Slepko - November 16, 2012 | Tickers: CRERY.PK, COST, AHONY.PK, PSMT, WMMVY.PK, WMT
“Whether it’s the restaurant or the supermarket or the kitchen supply shop, it’s hard to think of sector that is more commercialized and more replete with entrepreneurship and innovation. It is all monetized. … Quality customers are often more important to a restaurant than a quality chef.”
Professor Tyler Cowen’s recent book, An Economist Gets Lunch, is his latest success at illustrating “markets in everything” – and like his more »
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The Johnny Depp of Closed-End Funds Talks CUBA (part 7)
By Nick Slepko - October 5, 2012 | Tickers: CIB, CUBA, MTZ, PSMT, WMMVY.PK
Closed-end fund guru Tom Herzfeld discusses Cuba and his most popular fund, the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (NASDAQ: CUBA).
[Continued from part 6]
Nick Slepko: Do you have any investments in Cuban-American public companies?
Tom Herzfeld: Cuban-American or not, Mastec (NYSE: MTZ) is a great company by most metrics. The company’s founder Jorge Mas Canosa was a very prominent Cuban-American leader…Mastec was one of our earlier holdings. I more »