It’s time for investors to head back to Brazil

Brazil remains one of the world’s cheapest stockmarkets, and is one of the few emerging markets that would be shielded from Trump-induced turbulence.

Brazil's stockmarket jumped by 40% in 2016; this year, it has already gained 10%. The economy is gradually rebounding from a deep recession, while the impeachment of the former president, Dilma Rousseff, cleared the way for a business-friendly administration led by Michael Temer.

All very well, Albert Ramos of Goldman Sachs told the Financial Times, but the market seems to be pricing in a V-shaped recovery that won't happen. "All sectors are overstretched and need to de-lever." The International Monetary Fund is pencilling in growth of just 0.5% in 2017.

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