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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...

Investors are reassessing their portfolios and asset allocation due to the uncertainty created by COVID-19 and its potential impact on both the global economy and prices. At this time of rising uncertainty and heightened volatility, we share our latest thoughts on investment opportunities acro...

The Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity team offers an overview of how the coronavirus has impacted emerging markets over the past month, and shares their latest outlook. Three Things We're Thinking About Today The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the W...

By Vikas Chiranewal, CFA, Senior Vice President, Senior Executive Director, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity and Krzysztof Musialik, CFA, Senior Vice President, Templeton Asset Management (Poland) Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych S.A., Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity ...

We fear a general emerging market crisis is becoming difficult to avoid. The coronavirus pandemic is reaching the likes of Brazil, Mexico, India, Turkey, and other big emerging markets, and there are several reasons to be very worried: Social distancing is near impossible for big parts of ...

By Andrew Ness, ASIP, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Even though economic activity in many countries has dramatically slowed or stopped due to the coronavirus outbreak, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity's Andrew Ness still thinks there's underlying l...

Pretend for a minute that it's 2019 and you're Brazil. Or maybe Turkey, your choice. You've got a lot of infrastructure to build if you want to keep your people happy, and to fund those projects you'll need to borrow a lot of money. That's not a problem, because borrowing is easy. The whol...

Originally published on March 25, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis is hitting emerging markets especially hard, and the global dollar cycle can explain why. Robin Brooks is a chief economist at the Institute of International Finance and has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the IMF. Rob...