Thursday, February 28, 2008
Brazil Takes Emerging Market
Brazil has become the world's largest emerging market.
Brazil edged past China to become the largest emerging market in the world, as measured by Morgan Stanley Capital International's emerging markets index. Brazil has a free-float market capitalization of $509.10 billion and comprises 14.95% of the index; China, $481.80 billion and 14.15%, respectively, according to MSCI, FactSet and Citi Investment Research. read more at portfolio