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As US dollar fades, emerging currencies poised for recovery in 2024: Report

After getting battered for most of 2023, emerging market (EM) currencies have made modest gains against the dollar after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady last week.

Explained: How South Korea's ban on short-selling may impact India

Move could delay transition to DM, which when happens is expected to boost India's weighting in MSCI indices

Fitch upgrades India's mid-term GDP growth forecast to 6.2% from 5.5%

Fitch blamed China for pulling down the estimate of 10 emerging countries to 4 per cent from 4.3 per cent earlier

An update on global capital

A significant shift in international investment dynamics is underway

JP Morgan bond index rebalancing: Borrowing costs in India to get cheaper

Index providers are 'increasingly tilted' to include India to fill the gap expected due to Russia's exclusion from JP Morgan's emerging market bond index

India to outperform Asian, EM peers; high valuation a challenge: Chris Wood

Will remain slightly Overweight India in the Asia Pacific ex-Japan relative-return portfolio, says Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies in his GREED & Fear note to investors.

India rules out tax policy changes for inclusion of bonds in global indices

The government doesn't plan to waive capital gains taxes, and it's concerned that foreign inflows will increase the volatility of local markets

Govt bonds' inclusion into JPMorgan index pushed to next year: Report

Indian government bonds will likely only be included in the JPMorgan emerging market global index early next year as New Delhi still needs to address various operational issues

Recession angst spurs pivot to emerging world's growth engines

Central Asia and Asia Pacific are the only two regions in emerging markets handing local-currency bond investors positive returns this month, according to a Bloomberg index

China's stringent Covid curbs threatens to derail world's emerging markets

Fresh Covid outbreaks are spooking global investors who fear shutdowns in China will echo across the world by lowering demand and disrupting supply chains

Investors dump emerging market funds on slowdown worries

According to Refinitiv Lipper, a cumulative $8.1 billion has flowed out of EM equity funds and $5.73 billion from bond funds in the past four weeks

India, China power Unilever to report fastest growth in 9 years in 2021

Priority markets of China, India, and the US grew at 14.3 per cent, 13.4 per cent, and 3.7 per cent respectively, said Unilever CEO Alan Jope

Emerging markets stare at higher interest rate as bond yields spike in US

The US bond market has given up all gains it made from the ultra-low interest rate policy initiated by the Fed after the Covid-19 pandemic break-out in early March 2020

As global funds shun India, rupee turns into worst currency in Asia

The currency declined 2.2% this quarter as global funds pulled $4 billion of capital out of the country's stock market, the most among regional markets where data is available.

Foreign investors in retreat mode across most emerging markets

Analysts at Morgan Stanley see EM equities 'struggling' in 2022 as they battle gradual tightening of global and local monetary conditions and several other idiosyncratic headwinds

India only overweight among the top four global emerging markets

China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, South Korea, and India have the highest average weightage in the EM space, accounting for two-third allocations

S&P Global cuts India's growth forecast to 9.5% from 11%, trims EM overall

LONDON (Reuters) - S&P Global cut its growth forecasts for some of Asia's top economies including India, the Philippines and Malaysia on Monday, offsetting upgrades to China and South Africa and much of Latin America.

Clean energy investment in developing economies top global priority: IEA

Recent trends in clean energy spending point to a widening gap between advanced economies and the developing world even though emissions reductions are far more cost-effective in the latter.

FII flow into Indian equities likely to moderate in FY22: Analysts

Besides India, experts say given the robust broad-based economic recovery, FIIs/FPIs can look towards China. Other emerging markets, they say, are yet to recover from the pandemic-induced sluggishness

India is odd one out in a favourable view of Emerging Asia: Cameron Brandt

With growth in developed markets under pressure from the rising Covid-19 caseload, investors will keep paying more attention to emerging markets, says Brandt