Two of the top emerging markets are grappling with food production and costs – resulting in higher prices in the months to come. The outlook for China and Brazil could portend higher grain prices, giving investors a chance to cash in on a potential rebound.

“Venezuela, one of Latin America’s most populist countries has a very high inflation rate, control on market prices and shortages. This seems to be a constant practice for countries with this type of regime, and even more so in this region where governments define this practice as “redistribution of wealth”. It seems like the only thing that they distribute is inflation,” says Paola Pecora.

A visitor to the Eternal City, even if he has been many times before, feels his jaw drop and his pulse rise. The city is still a magnificent ruin…a vast memento mori recalling every absurdity and corruption known to man. Here we begin ab ovo, as the Romans used to say – with the egg.