published May 1st 2017, 4:00 pm, by Satyajit Das (Bloomberg View) — For all the hand-wringing over when and how the Federal Reserve would begin tapering its massive bond-buying program, emerging nations appear to be relatively well-prepared for higher U.S. interest rates. Compared with the period before the 1997 financial

published Mar 13th 2017, 3:30 pm, by Robert Burgess (Bloomberg View) — Saying the U.S. junk bond market has been hot would be an understatement. The securities gained slightly more than 17 percent last year as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index, one of its best

published Feb 12th 2017, 2:00 pm, by Yumi Teso and Lilian Karunungan (Bloomberg) — Combine the prospects for interest-rate cuts with their higher carry-trade returns and two countries stand out as the best bets this year in emerging markets: Brazil and Russia. In a survey of 16 investors and analysts

published Jun 8th 2016, 6:00 pm, by Ye Xie, Natasha Doff and Dani Burger (Bloomberg) — Misery is making strange bedfellows in global markets. At a time when risky assets including stocks, commodities, junk bonds and emerging-market currencies are rallying to multi-month highs, so are the havens, from gold, government

published Jun 6th 2016, 3:43 pm, by Maria Levitov and Elena Popina (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market currencies and stocks rallied for a third day as the weakest U.S. jobs data since 2010 and comments by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen that provided less specificity as to the potential timing of interest-rate

published May 17th 2016, 3:37 pm, by Ian Sayson, Nupur Acharya and Maria Levitov (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks advanced for a second day as oil selling for the highest price since November helped lift energy producers and suppliers of Apple Inc. rallied after Berkshire Hathaway Inc. disclosed that it held

published May 2nd 2016, 3:00 pm, by Jeremy Herron and Joseph Ciolli (Bloomberg) — U.S. shares rose the most in two weeks and the dollar weakened to the lowest in almost a year as traders lowered expectations for higher interest rates as manufacturing slowed last month. Emerging-market assets retreated with

©2016 Bloomberg News O4RU0E6KLVR8 (Bloomberg) — During the boom years, when China’s demand seemed insatiable and commodity prices dependable, the emerging- markets team at Stone Harbor Investment Partners in New York visited its countries once or twice a year. In the past six months, it has made four trips to

©2016 Bloomberg News O4GLNN6JIJUZ (Bloomberg) — Most U.S. stocks retreated as investors dived into haven assets including gold and the dollar after deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels killed at least 31 people. The Nasdaq Composite Index edged higher as drugmakers climbed. While transport-related shares led the Standard & Poor’s 500

©2016 Bloomberg News O1BDQP6KLVR8 (Bloomberg) — Government support doesn’t count for as much these days in the developing world. Investors are demanding the biggest premium in three years to own bonds of state-backed oil producers and utilities as governments become less able to live up to implicit guarantees. Barclays Plc