Alex Brummer

INVESTMENT SPECIAL: Passports to China

FTSE blue-chips offer safer access to emerging markets

issue 12 February 2011

One of the remarkable statistics to emerge from the euroland crisis is the scale of UK trade with the Irish Republic. Export traffic across the Irish Sea amounts to 7 per cent of the total: more than all our trade with the fast growing ‘BRIC’ economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China.

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