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Sell Brazil: Market Is Pricey After Huge Run, Say Analysts

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Mark Melin
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Sell Brazil, was the talk of many institutional analysts Monday morning. As news of an impeachment vote of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was being made public, screaming and chanting was heard in the Brazilian lower house of Congress and initially, on the Brazilian stock market. But is the market overacting to what it thinks will usher in an economically friendly government?

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Sell Brazil: When blood was on the street, savvy investors bought Brazil thinking what’s bad for the ruling populist government is good for stocks

On January 21, with the iShares MSCI Brazilian index trading near 17.33, the market environment looked bleak. In...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.