{"id":17852,"date":"2012-02-17T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17852"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:13:58","slug":"emerging-markets-profits-wheres-the-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/emerging-markets-profits-wheres-the-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Market&#8217;s Profits: Where&#8217;s The Beef?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting. After such an amazing start to the year, it would seem as though there was something behind the surge of the equities in the Emerging Markets. But as that well known Wendy&#8217;s commercial used to <!--more-->say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WHERE&#8217;S THE BEEF?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17857\" title=\"wherebeef\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wherebeef-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 44 percent of companies in emerging markets tracked by Morgan Stanley have missed analysts\u2018 fourth-quarter earnings estimates, compared with 29 percent that have beaten them.<\/p>\n<p>India, Singapore and Peru are among the top three emerging and Asian countries that have beaten profit expectations \u201cin terms of magnitude and breadth,\u201d\u009d while South Korea, Brazil and Mexico have the \u201chighest earnings misses,\u201d\u009d Morgan Stanley analysts Jonathan Garner and Pankaj Mataney wrote in a report dated yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley reduced its weighting on emerging and Asian stocks from the maximum \u201coverweight\u2018 and boosted cash holdings to 2 percent from zero, according to a Feb. 10 report.<\/p>\n<p>The MSCI Emerging-Markets Index fell 0.5 percent to 1,053.21 at 9:12 a.m. in Shanghai, trimming this year\u2018s gain to 15 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-16\/more-emerging-stocks-miss-profit-estimates-than-beat-morgan-stanley-says.html\">More Emerging Stocks Miss Profit Estimates Than Beat, Morgan Stanley Says &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>______________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy?<br \/>\nClick below for the virtual tour&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/tdi-investment-fund\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TDIMG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting. After such an amazing start to the year, it would seem as though there was something behind the surge of the equities in the Emerging Markets. But as that well known Wendy&#8217;s commercial used to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-17852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-emerging-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}