“This is a lull, not a recovery. In this sort of situation, a small bounce-back happens quite often. (It) is wishful thinking. But the point is, it is not over.”
“I'm certainly expecting a similar kind of cacophony in Prague that we witnessed in Washington, Seattle and almost every other major economic and political event in recent memory.”
“It would be a good opportunity to signal a change in interest rate policy. This is a country with single-digit inflation and an interest rate of 20 percent. It's ridiculous.”
“Brazil's benchmark rate will keep on falling until it gets down to a more reasonable single digit rate. The tax cut, along with lower inflation, will certainly help.”
“It's a country developing very fast and it deserves to have low credit spreads. Investors like myself with pension funds and central banks will just buy into any weakness.”
“The reality is that there's risk everywhere, in every country. We're now in a world where you've got two types of countries: emerging markets, where political risk is priced in, and a whole bunch where it isn't priced in at all.”
