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Emerging markets get thumbs up after staring down tough quarter

Top picks are Asian stocks, followed by Latin American bonds, according to the survey of 15 participants conducted March 22-28

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Bloomberg
As the old American Timex watch advertising slogan went, they took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’.

Emerging-market stocks beat peers from developed nations in the first quarter as investors tangled with an escalation in trade tensions, a jump in bond yields and bank-funding costs, and a sell-off in technology stocks. And investors, strategists and traders remain bullish on emerging assets for the rest of 2018, a Bloomberg survey shows.

Top picks are Asian stocks, followed by Latin American bonds, according to the survey of 15 participants conducted March 22-28. In currencies, Asia came tops again, ahead of Europe, the Middle East