John Hood
iShares S&P Latin America 40 ETF
XLA-T
COMMENT
Jul 29, 2011
S&P Latin America 40 ETF. Caller is concerned with the disconnect between strong performances of Brazilian stocks and the decline in this ETF. A lot of this is because of currency changes in Brazil and the relationship of the Rial to the Cdn and US dollars. You also have Peru which just went from a pro-business government to and anti business government.
20% consumer is not bad even if less than in North America. Latin America is a build-the-infrastructure type of story. It is also a growth story in terms of demographics and kids per age-bearing female. Brazil has the Olympics and the World Cup coming up.
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