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As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, an unprecedented lockdown has been imposed in more than 100 countries to minimize the spread of the virus. As the number of new cases globally appears to be peaking, markets are reacting positively, and we are beginning to look through to the...

By Nicholas Hardingham, CFA, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Debt Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income With some countries slowly lifting coronavirus lockdown periods, does it make sense to invest in risk assets again - namely emerging markets? Franklin Templ...

By Robin Marshall Concerns about a wave of EM defaults has recently emerged Some commentators have expressed concern about a wave of Emerging Market ((EM)) debt defaults, based on the scale of the Covid-19 shock, declines in commodity prices, the expansion in EM debt since the GFC, the...

By Carol Lye A black swan virus shock brought the world to its knees—dealing a particularly acute blow to emerging markets. It was only a year ago that emerging markets recovered from the previous Federal Reserve (Fed) tightening and trade war crises. Britney Spears’s &#...

By Manraj Sekhon, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Manraj Sekhon, chief investment officer, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, discusses the emerging markets landscape across North Asia, India and Latin America, and the path forward towa...

Many emerging market ((EM)) countries will likely be hit harder by COVID-19 because of structural vulnerabilities and weaker institutions - in other words, their ability to contain the pandemic and their capacity to stimulate their economies. But while there is reason for concern, there is als...

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The Coronavirus outbreak has hit Emerging Markets, traditionally a higher-return, higher-risk asset class, which has suffered as investors sought safe-haven assets. Some emerging markets, like Russia and Mexico, are also big oil exporters, so they've been damaged by the recent collapse ...

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Caught in the throes of one of the most severe pandemics of all times, zooming past Covid-19 seems a distant fantasy. An uncoordinated global response to a systemic health crisis in the absence of a definitive medical cure and inadequate health systems across developed and developing economies...