EDD News and Press, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund Inc. From 02/17/21

Emerging market bonds rallied spectacularly in the last two months of 2020. Despite talks of tapering, the Federal Reserve remains committed to its new policy regime shift of average inflation targeting, and liquidity remains ample. The medium-term story for India is even more imp...

Our study showed that a COVID-19 vaccine would be the single most important factor in giving people confidence to resume normal spending habits. School reopenings should provide a further impulse to the recovery. Fiscal and monetary policy have already provided enormous stimulus, ...

Stocks in emerging markets continued to lead the major asset classes in January as the top monthly performer. Emerging markets shares have been up for four straight months, pushing this slice of the world's equities to a wide one-year lead of nearly 28%. US stocks are posting the ...

The cyclical rebound from 2020's stop-start pattern is likely to be vigorous and highly synchronized globally in 2021. Emerging markets are typically a levered play on global manufacturing growth. Following the initial lockdown, manufacturing growth rebounded strongly and remained res...

Investors appear almost universally to be pricing for an early-cycle mix of low interest rates and ongoing support from both monetary and fiscal policy, combined with the release of pent-up demand from consumers and manufacturers. Short-term stumbling blocks are not confined to the on...

A long history of extremely low yields in Japan suggests that low yields do not necessarily map to low returns. Amid the dramatic sell-off in risk assets in March 2020 as the global pandemic took hold, and again in September 2020 when equity markets pulled back sharply, government bon...

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the COVID crisis will deepen advanced economies' budget deficits by 11% of GDP (gross domestic product) in 2020, but by just 6% in emerging markets. As 2021 starts, government debt is expected to rise to 125% of GDP in advanced econo...

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund (EDD) declares $0.105/share quarterly dividend, -4.5% decrease from prior dividend of $0.110.Forward yield 6.68%Payable Jan. 15; for shareholders of record Dec. 18; ex-div Dec. 17.See EDD Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth...

Near-zero yields are entrenched across the developed world. Fine-tuning around the edges of portfolio construction, or holding out in hope of eventual yield normalization is no longer a viable strategy to meet return targets. Investors searching for more attractive yields are incr...

Broad US equities continued their momentum from Q2 following the dramatic COVID-19-driven decline earlier in the year. The S&P 500 rose 9% in Q3 after a 20% rise in Q2. Value-oriented stocks underperformed the broader market on concerns about economic fragility, the expiration of ...