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    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Markets InsightDavid Lubin
      Why investors should lament the rise of Global South term

      The shift away from emerging markets reflects an eclipsing of economics by politics

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    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Investors pull record sums from corporate bond ETFs as lending rates soar

      US Treasury exchange traded funds draw nearly $30bn of inflows in September

      A cyclist passes the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      FT SeriesHigher for longer
      US interest rates add to ‘silent debt crisis’ in developing countries

      World Bank warns some high-debt, low-income nations face ‘nightmare’ rolling over their bonds

      Protests in Sri Lanka amid the country’s economic crisis in 2022
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Asia-Pacific equities
      How can UK retail investors get into India?

      £4bn in assets under management in UK retail funds focused on India and the subcontinent

    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Special ReportFTfm: Exchange Traded Funds
      Will India’s rise above China mean higher ETF returns?

      Analysts are asking how much of the country’s buoyancy is priced in to valuations

      Commuters in India rushing towards a railway station - blurred to convey their motion
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Israel-Hamas war sends jitters through neighbours’ debt markets

      Borrowing costs for Jordan and Egypt rise as investors price in greater risk for owning their bonds

      Demonstrators wave the Palestinian flag during protests in the Jordanian capital of Amman
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Capital markets
      JPMorgan adds India to pivotal bond index

      Inclusion expected to drive billions of dollars of inflows in rupee-denominated debt

      A picture of people walking in the rain in India
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Simon Edelsten
      Companies that prosper in times of high inflation

      Higher prices can even be beneficial to some — and their investors

      A selection of in-store Grupo Bimbo products
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Fund management
      The perils of long-term forecasts — GMO edition

      Find someone who loves you like GMO loves EM value

    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Argentina
      Argentina’s markets recoil after shock primary election results

      Central bank devalues peso by 18% against the dollar to reassure anxious investors

      A woman walks past a money exchange store in Buenos Aires with a sign in Spanish that reads ‘We are not operating due to the system problems, sorry for the inconvenience’
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Currencies
      The evolution of original sin

      Has it been eliminated, ameliorated or just shifted?

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Distressed nations lead emerging market bond rally

      Progress in restructuring talks in Zambia and Sri Lanka has fuelled a broader rally in beaten-down assets

    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Time to retire the ‘emerging markets’ label

      Clumping the developing world together obscures economic risks and opportunities

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    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Lex
      Emerging market bonds: peers show Powell better turn of speed Premium content

      Investors have started taking note of the best-performing fixed income investments so far this year

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    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Asia-Pacific equities
      Foreign investors sidestep China in rush into Asian stocks

      Net inflows into ‘ex-China’ emerging markets exceed those into China for first time since 2017, according to Goldman Sachs data

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Egypt
      Egypt announces $1.9bn sale of state assets

      First significant privatisations aimed at raising foreign currency revenue to shore up its pound

      An engineer watches as molten iron is poured into a container at Ezz Steel’s factory in Sadat City, Egypt
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Gap in borrowing costs between developed and emerging markets at 16-year low

      Investors price in rate cuts in Latin America and eastern Europe as west tightens

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    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Latin America’s bonds and currencies lure yield-hungry investors

      High interest rates and falling inflation fuel big rally in region’s markets

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    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Ruchir Sharma
      Here’s a tale of economic ‘resilience’ — but it’s not the one you think

      Emerging markets are proving less vulnerable to rising interest rates than many analysts feared

      A spice and grain market in New Delhi, India
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Move over, DM and EM. Here come GI, BM, SCH, SBS, NRW and SC

      Always read the label

    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      Markets InsightEli Lee
      Asian emerging markets will benefit from shift beyond China

      Regional economies are becoming less correlated with their giant neighbour

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    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      Frontier markets forecast to thrive as investors avoid US-China rivalry

      Mercer predicts money will flow to non-aligned states that have dodged geopolitical crossfire

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    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Investors snap up local currency bonds as dollar debt loses allure

      Falling inflation and high interest rates in emerging markets attract investor flows

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    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Quarter of emerging countries lose effective access to debt markets

      Banking turmoil has driven up spreads on sovereign bond yields over US Treasuries to levels that impair ability to raise funds

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    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Strong dollar fuels wave of emerging market currency devaluations

      Economists say more countries likely to follow Egypt, Pakistan and Lebanon in letting currencies weaken

      An employee counts banknotes at currency exchange shop in Baghdad
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