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  • Emerging markets investors are a hardy bunch and it's a good job.

  • The hideous declines in many currencies in this asset class have been a serious test of nerves.

  • Since the first sign that the Fed would start turning off the taps back in 2013,

  • every time the market has swooned, investors have hoped it would be a mere bump in the road.

  • Every time though, it's turned out to be much more than that.

  • Lately, these investors have enjoyed a rare spell in the sun.

  • Some have even put their tin hats back in the loft.

  • After a gruesome start to 2016, a series of "maybes" have helped emerging market currencies decline by some 10% from late January.

  • Among the reasons, perhaps the U.S. won't keep on cranking up interest rate as fast as it says.

  • Perhaps the reaction to China's currency devaluation was overdone and the country's economy won't collapse after all, at least not yet.

  • Perhaps that flower show in Tangshang, the one that reportedly brought steel production to a temporary halt,

  • really will succeed in putting a floor under iron prices, perhaps oil will find balance.

  • A lot of these reasons are pretty flaky and even at the time,

  • EM investors pinned some of it on technical factors and strokes of luck.

  • But now, just as some bystanders are deciding to jump into the market, it may be time for a pause.

  • The smart money says we won't go back to the ugly declines we saw at the start of this year,

  • but it also says it's wise to be very cautious, and thankful just for stability.

  • Among the laundry list of risks, the dollar seems to have dropped as far as it reasonably can based on the dovish rethink of the Fed,

  • at least for now iron ore prices are, once again, dropping off a cliff, down by over 20% or so from the recent peak.

  • Political risk is pinching Brazil and hammering Turkey, a nervous central bank is holding back the Korean Won,

  • and it's hard to see how the chance of Donald Trump running for U.S. president can be positive for risky assets.

  • Are we heading for another mini-crash? Probably not.

  • But it's also worth preparing for at least a bump in the road, and getting that tin hat out of storage just in case.

Emerging markets investors are a hardy bunch and it's a good job.

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新興市場の道路には、より多くのデコボコがある|ショートビュー (More bumps on emerging market roads | Short View)

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    Kristi Yang に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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