Geopolitical risks of foreign operations

Kyrgyzstan is a country that probably was on nobody’s radar before a few days ago when the country went into a revolution.

However, some companies have operations in Kyrgyzstan – Centerra Gold has mining operations located there and correspondingly, their stock price took a drop with the heightened uncertainty:

Whenever having an investment interest in a Canadian-headquartered company with foreign operations, it always pays to keep an eye on the country where the operations are located. I am reasonably sure that if somebody was paying attention to Kyrgyzstan before their revolution hit the news, they could have protected their investment interests.