April 27, 2012, 12:01 a.m. EDT
Why U.S. investors should look to Canada, Mexico
Good neighbors make for good investments compared to U.S. stocks
By Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Investors looking for direction from the U.S. stock market may want to gaze north and south — to Canada and Mexico — for cheaper and better opportunities.
As two of the three top U.S. trading partners other than China, Canada and Mexico stand to benefit from a U.S. economic recovery as well as their own.
But Canada’s resource-heavy market and corruption and violence in Mexico are major risks.
“Both Canada and Mexico represent opportunity and peril,” said Scott Barclay, a financial writer and editor of e-newsletter The Investing Opinion.
“An investor needs to be confident that oil will rise in price to consider Canada a good investment,” he said. “Mexico is actually more diverse. However, government corruption presents headline risk.”
Nonetheless, some analysts tout the merits of these two neighbors for patient investors.
More: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-us-investors-should-look-to-canada-mexico-2012-04-27
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