I’ve been bullish on the BRIC counties for some time. In fact, my recommended positions on the BRICs have been running higher ever since we published them for Investor’s Daily Edge readers on April 9^th of this year. Read the full story

The U.S. market has climbed 50% from its March bottom. But that’s small potatoes compared to China. The Shanghai Composite Index was recently up 103% since its November low.

The Chinese economy is awash in cash. Banks have doled out $1 trillion as part of the country’s stimulus package. However, about 15% of that ($145 billion), analysts say, went directly into the stock market. Hence the super bounce. Read the full story

Resource companies aren’t the only ones hoping for a strong recovery in China. One American franchiser gets about 25 percent of its growth from China. And in three years its profits from China are expected to match those from the U.S. It has a lot at stake in China. Read the full story

China’s stock market is back to where it was one year ago. But what exactly does that mean for your portfolio? Read the full story

Chinese business and social culture are generally very subdued and conservative… and above all, respectful. But students at Peking University in Beijing just couldn’t help themselves this week. Read the full story

While the market surges and the herd stumbles around trying to decide if this 30% run in the market is real, there is another scenario unfolding that could very well be the single biggest driving force in our economy and the rest of the world.

The problem is the details of this developing story aren’t exciting or anything the average person wants to hear about. Most have little or no understanding about the specifics and frankly don’t want to know. But, this is a story that will be the make or break issue in the stock market, our economy, and the recovering world economy.
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De-coupling lives again, but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.

Remember when it made the rounds over a year ago?

The idea was, even if the U.S. economy caught pneumonia, the rest of the world would at worst get a bad cough.

It was argued that Europe and China were much less reliant on the U.S. economy than ever before. And China, with its massive import needs, would also keep economies from Brazil to Australia humming.

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China’s economy is booming and is on track to become the world’s next great economic giant. You need to invest in China and profit from their explosive growth. The good news is that now you can easily invest in China without having to open a foreign brokerage account or buy Chinese stocks overseas. Read the full story

I thought we had gotten rid of the “de-coupling” theory. But I was wrong. It’s alive and well and enjoying a growing following on Wall-Street.

That’s probably enough to put most of you off right there and then. Read the full story

BRIC is an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRIC countries have seen their stock markets plummet along with the rest of the world during this economic crisis. Now is a great time to invest in these developing countries because they are oversold and they still have high growth potential. Read the full story