EDD News and Press, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund Inc. From 03/11/19

Here's a look at some of the stand-out charts on my radar. I aim to pick a good mix of charts covering some of the key global macro trends, as well as some of the more interesting risks and opportunities across asset classes. Hope you enjoy! 1. Philly Fed Fakeout? This chart should seem fa...

Where is the U.S. dollar headed after its sizable appreciation in 2018? It depends on your vantage point. The dollar has gained against most developed market ((DM)) currencies, but depreciated against emerging market ((EM)) counterparts so far this year. We see this trend as likely to run on i...

Emerging market debt ((EMD)) has rallied sharply this year, bouncing back from a tough 2018. Is now a good time to add exposure? We would be buyers on any material sell-offs, as we see fundamentals remaining supportive in coming quarters. Our overall view on emerging markets (EMs) favors equit...

By Robert Nelson, CFA, Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group Robert Nelson, a portfolio manager with Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group, believes emerging market corporate debt presents a compelling but under-appreciated investment s...

Investors piled record volumes of cash into emerging markets shares and bonds in the past week amid expectations that the U.S. dollar will weaken as the Fed pauses interest rate hikes, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch note. More news on: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, Van...

The US Federal Reserve turned ´dovish´last week, somewhat surprisingly. Does that mean that emerging markets ((EM)) will cheer? Won't we have other EM currency crashes in 2019, like in Turkey and Argentina last Summer? The last OECD Economic Outlook (November 2018) wrote recently tha...

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Venezuela government debt may be taken out of JPMorgan's flagship emerging-market bond indexes after U.S. sanctions effectively wiped out trading of the securities, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter. More news on: BlackRock, Inc., iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging ...

"Here we are doing something that almost seems like a suicide mission," Jeffrey Gundlach said in a fresh webcast about his DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund (MUTF: DBLTX ). "We are increasing the the size of the deficit while we’re raising interest rates... so late in an economic cy...

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