Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick Brazil
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-first YouTube video: Quick Pick Brazil ETF EWZ. This week’s Quick Pick is Brazil, iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA: EWZ). While the election in Brazil isn’t totally over with an actual concession speech, it’s clear Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has defeated President Jair Bolsonaro, making Bolsonaro the first Brazilian President ever to not win a second term. Bolsonaro has yet to concede to Lula and his followers are still engaged in massive protests against the outcome. Even if Bolsonaro never concedes, a good measurement of how the post-election violence is trend is the number of roadblocks by Bolsonaro supporters throughout the country. The current count is 192 roadblocks cleared, 271 still up – but the Supreme Court has imposed fines to put pressure on the police to remove the roadblocks. As the roadblocks go down and Bolsonaro supporters gradually retreat from violence, Brazilian stocks will go up as Lula steps into the presidency. The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF currently is paying a hefty dividend of 11% 12% and you get a lot of exposure to Petrobras and Brazilian consumer stocks. I especially like that consumer exposure since I think Lula will invest in the consumer sector.
