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BRICs No Cure for Slow Global Growth

Emerging nations are no longer expanding strongly enough to buoy economy worldwide.

By Michael Patterson, Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg | Updated on September 01, 2011

Stocks of international companies that depend most on emerging markets for sales show developing nations won’t be strong enough to buoy the global economy.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s gauge of U.S. companies with the most developing-nation revenue fell 15 percent since April, the biggest drop since the bull market began in 2009. Avon Products Inc., which gets at least 74 percent of operating profit from emerging markets, sank 15 percent in New York last month. Siemens AG, which doubled sales from the nations in five years, lost 21 percent in Frankfurt, the most since October 2008.

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