Here's the headline story from MoneyWeek:
Until recently, few investors paid any attention to Mongolia. But that’s starting to change. Mongolia is the size of western Europe and is thought to have the world’s second-biggest copper and uranium reserves, while 80% of the country is still unsurveyed, as Dexter Roberts points out in Bloomberg Businessweek.* From 2009's "With a Name Like Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co., it has to be good ( 600111:Shanghai)":
Its neighbour is China, the world’s biggest commodities consumer. As more and more mining projects are set up, the small economy is rocketing. GDP rose by 9.7% year-on-year in the first quarter. The International Monetary Fund reckons per-capita income could rise fourfold in ten years.
This helps explain why the local stockmarket was the world’s best performer last year, gaining over 170%, while the currency, the tugrik, appreciated by 13% against the dollar....MORE
In December 2007 I wrote:
How the heck did I miss Mongolia Energy Co. Ltd.?...The question has haunted me to this day.
[you really need to get out more -ed]
MEco was the number two stock in the Bloomberg Worldwide Index that year, up 5911.17%.
I vowed that I "will study and learn, and one day my chance will come."
[ummm, wasn't that Lincoln?]
....
Here's the extent of my knowledge of Mongolia's fashion scene:
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Nomadic chic hairdo
Reconstructed by M.Chimeddorj
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Khan Resources jumps 20% despite Mongolian riots
"Mining hordes invade Mongolia, the 'Kuwait of Central Asia'" and "Hong Kong a good market for Mongolian IPOs"
