Search Results for: Emerging Markets Debt
More Emerging Market Chaos – How Long Before It Spreads To The Developed World?
August 31st, 2018
Emerging market chaos is now front page news. Let’s start with Argentina, where the peso has resumed its plunge: In response: “Argentina Central Bank hikes interest rate to 60 percent (AP) — Argentina’s Central Bank has increased its ...
Is China part Of the “Emerging Market Crisis”?
June 29th, 2018
Being huge, consequential and technologically advanced, China isn’t normally lumped into the “emerging” category with Brazil and Argentina. To most observers they’ve already left the kids table and are now seated with the developed-world adults. But that might be ...
A Spiking Dollar = Emerging Market Chaos
May 31st, 2018
The dollar collapse thesis – which ends with all fiat currencies achieving their intrinsic value of zero — doesn’t preclude some thrills and chills along the way, in which some currencies fall faster than others and wreak havoc on ...
Stocks take battering as Italian crisis roils financial markets
May 30th, 2018
Asian stocks extended a global sell-off on Wednesday as Italy’s political crisis rippled across financial markets, toppling the euro to a 10-month low, pushing up Italian borrowing costs and sending investors rushing to safe-haven assets such as U.S. Treasuries. ...
Emerging markets downside continues as US yields spike
November 15th, 2016
Surging US bond yields and a stronger dollar have added to the pressure on emerging markets (EM) which are among the hardest-hit since Donald Trump’s US election win. The US currency hit a nine-month peak in Asia on Monday, ...
No matter who wins US Election markets are betting on one truly safe investment
November 7th, 2016
No matter who wins the race for the White House, markets are betting on one truly safe investment, and that is the currency of a country with bleak economic prospects – Japan. Markets had long been pricing in a ...
Here’s How the US Presidential Election Will Affect the Markets; BlackRock
November 3rd, 2016
The 2016 U.S. election is unusually consequential. BlackRock’s Chief Equity Strategist Kate Moore examines what it could mean for investors. The 2016 U.S. election is unusually consequential. The underlying dynamics are driven by widening income inequality across the world, ...
The Bank For International Settlements Warns That A Major Debt Meltdown In China Is Imminent
September 20th, 2016
The pinnacle of the global financial system is warning that conditions are right for a “full-blown banking crisis” in China. Since the last financial crisis, there has been a credit boom in China that is really unprecedented in world ...
Investors are pushing into Emerging-market stocks; 20% rise over the past six months
August 29th, 2016
China’s economy is inexorably slowing. Turkey’s sprawling post-coup purge continues apace. Western sanctions against Russia will remain in force for as long as Moscow keeps meddling in Ukraine. Brazil’s brief Olympic distraction is over, so it’s back to the business of dealing with acrippling recession and wrenching ...
Risk On/Risk Off: What Schizophrenic Markets Are Telling Us
July 11th, 2016
These trends cannot be reversed with yet another rate cut or another “whatever it takes” announcement. In the conventional investment perspective, risk-on assets (i.e. investments with higher risks and higher potential returns) such as stocks are on a see-saw ...
