BRICs diverge to a record degree

Posted by Weiyi Lim, Bloomberg

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bricsThe BRIC grouping of Brazil, Russia,India and China has never looked so disunited to stock investors.

While Chinese and Indian benchmark equity indexes have surged an average 40 percent this year, Russian and Brazilian gauges posted a mean drop of 4.2 percent. The annual divergence is on pace for the biggest since economist Jim O’Neill coined the term in 2001, leaving the combined market capitalization of Chinese and Indian equities $5.2 trillion larger than that of Russia and Brazil, according to data compiled by Bloomberg……

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