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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 ...

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...

Largely tied to the fate of the US dollar, the underperformance of emerging markets relative to their developed counterparts may finally be ending. A rising US dollar causes the domestic currency of emerging economies to fall and inflation to rise amid weaker economic growth. On a...

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Despite COVID-19 pandemic, emerging markets have shown continued appetite for structural reforms that could lay the foundation for lasting economic recoveries. Highlights of news and events driving emerging markets during the month of October. Where our Emerging Markets Equity tea...

Reflecting worse-than-expected outturns in the second quarter in a few countries, the IMF's forecast for the region has been downgraded to -2.2 percent in 2020 - the worst outcome for this region in living memory. India's economy experienced a much sharper than expected contraction in...

Despite a growing economic and technological decoupling between China and the West, the financial divide is actually shrinking. China's bond market - now the second largest in the world - has seen increased foreign participation, especially in its government bond market, where foreign...

By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors With the United States and China locked in an increasingly heated rivalry, the European Union needs to choose a side. Since China was accepted as a full member of the World Trade Organization ((WTO)) in 2001, its share of world ...

By Laurent Saltiel, Sergey Davalchenko, & Naveen Jayasundaram Emerging market stocks are having a difficult time in the COVID-19 crisis, but not all industries - or countries - are struggling. And many businesses have the right qualities to benefit from structural changes now and long ...

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