Malaysia

As Risk Rises, Emerging Markets Are Too Complacent: Satyajit Das
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

Emerging-Market Assets Rally as Traders Scale Back Fed Rate Bets
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

Malaysia Has Plenty of Jobs But No One to Take Them: Adam Minter
published Apr 21st 2016, 5:00 pm, by Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) — The pattern is a familiar one. In February, the Malaysian government proposed allowing 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers into the country to seek employment. A popular backlash ensued and the government quickly backtracked, imposing a moratorium on hiring foreign

To Today’s Emerging-Market Investor, It’s All About the Politics
©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