Emerging Markets Weekly Blog Post: 17/4/2016

I start the emerging markets blog post feature with a prediction: The mainstream media would spend 2016 obsessing over every brain-fart of Donald Trump while ignoring the fact that 29 different countries were caught up in a commodities crash. That prediction (perhaps a very easy one to make) has come true in spades. Nonetheless, the…

An Emerging Markets Crisis? (Part 3 of 5: Angola)

Here’s a pub trivia question for you: What is sub-Saharan African’s third biggest economy? Chances are, you didn’t answer Angola, but that’s the correct answer. With GDP of around $125 billion per year, its economy is just a fraction smaller than Hungary and two and a half times bigger than that of Slovenia. The country…