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 World Health Organization on March 11. Global cases exceeded 1.2 million in early April, with the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany and France among the countries with the largest number of cases. Efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 led to severe mobility restrictions in many countries and, in some cases, a