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Emerging-Market Currencies Sink to One-Year Low on Dollar Gains

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Emerging-market currencies deepened their slide to the lowest level in a year and stocks retreated amid a U.S. dollar advance. Every developing-nation currency tracked by Bloomberg fell, and an MSCI gauge of equities extended its selloff from a January peak to 17 percent. South Africa’s rand slipped as the central bank warned of a “challenging” growth outlook, while Chile’s peso joined a slide in copper. The Chinese yuan sank…

The Hot Spots That Defined a Year of Emerging-Market Ebullience

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – 2017 is set to go down as the year when easy monetary policy and budding global growth came together to deliver blockbuster returns for the world’s emerging markets. Currencies and stocks in developing economies are on track for their biggest rallies in eight years as even the riskiest markets shrug off crises and threats to deliver gains for investors. Bonds, too, have had a good run, with local-currency emerging-market debt returning the most since…

Emerging-Market Bulls Hold Firm After Best Rally Since 2009

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Emerging-market investors who made bullish calls on equities amid this year’s monster rally are sticking to their guns, wagering that economic growth will propel gains in 2018. Money managers and strategists including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Ashmore Group Plc and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. say this year’s 33 percent surge for the benchmark index of developing-nation stocks is justified by rising profits. Along with analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co….

Wall Street Braces for Emerging-Market Jolt by Dodging Dollar

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – After two years of almost uninterrupted gains in developing-nation currencies against the U.S. dollar, it’s time for a new strategy. That’s the assessment of traders who’ve grown anxious that the greenback’s 16 percent slide against a basket of emerging-market currencies since January 2016 has gone too far. The latest inflation reading in the world’s largest economy added to concern, possibly giving the Federal Reserve cover to tighten monetary policy. At the same time,…

IMF reduces emerging economies growth to 4.3% in 2015

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Economic growth reduced to 4.3% in 2015, downside risks persistThe International Monetary Fund reduced its projection for growth in emerging markets and developing economies to 4.3% in 2015 from an October forecast of 4.9%. It attributed the revision to lower growth in China and its negative impact on Emerging Asia, a much weaker economic outlook for Russia and its spill over on Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and to lower potential growth in commodity exporters….