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John Thomas graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with honors and a minor in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) in 1974. He moved to Tokyo, Japan where he was employed by a medium-sized Japanese securities house. Thomas became fluent in... More
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  • Bombay's Melt Up 0 comments
    May 18, 2009 10:03 PM | about stocks: IFN, EPI, HXI

    The Congress Party won an upset victory in national elections, its coalition taking 262 out of 543 seats, paving the way for much needed economic reforms. At the top of the list is a liberalization of foreign investment restrictions, which will unleash torrent liquidity into the stock market. After two limit up moves took the Bombay Sensex ($BSE) up 17%, exchange officials shut down the market. This “melt up” is a great “tell” for global capital markets as it shows you the tremendous extend of the latent buying of high growth emerging markets that is out there. This is a theme that I have been hammering away on all year, and will continue to do so until I cash in my chips.

    Stocks: IFN, EPI, HXI
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