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Emerging Market Countries

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.

Updated On: 24 Mar 2023 | 10:01 PM IST

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

Updated On: 28 Sep 2022 | 8:03 AM IST

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

Updated On: 27 Sep 2022 | 3:15 PM IST

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

Updated On: 10 Jul 2022 | 10:05 PM IST

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

Updated On: 02 May 2022 | 10:02 AM IST

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

Updated On: 25 Mar 2022 | 7:57 PM IST

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

Updated On: 10 Feb 2022 | 7:57 PM IST

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

Updated On: 10 Jan 2022 | 6:05 AM IST

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.

Updated On: 21 Dec 2021 | 7:52 AM IST

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

Updated On: 23 Nov 2021 | 1:21 AM IST

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

Updated On: 06 Sep 2021 | 1:01 AM IST

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.

Updated On: 29 Jun 2021 | 8:58 AM IST

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.

Updated On: 12 Jun 2021 | 3:59 PM IST

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

Updated On: 15 Apr 2021 | 10:40 PM IST

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

Updated On: 01 Nov 2020 | 8:10 PM IST

K-shaped recovery in emerging markets makes rich richer amid Covid-19

The gulf may even get wider if the pandemic leads to deeper recessions in the most disadvantaged countries

Updated On: 04 Sep 2020 | 2:20 AM IST

India among large EMs set for highest debt burden by 2021, says Moody's

Large emerging market sovereigns will have higher debt burdens for the next few years, says ratings agency.

Updated On: 02 Sep 2020 | 1:38 AM IST

I'm very bullish on EM equities for next few years, says Jan Dehn

'EMs will significantly outperform developed market (DM) assets. Both bonds and stocks, as well as currencies,' he says

Updated On: 21 Jun 2020 | 7:14 PM IST

India-focused offshore funds see $1.2-billion outflows in February

Listed emerging market flows were negative for all countries, except Brazil and Russia.

Updated On: 26 Mar 2020 | 12:35 AM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Learning from classroom, growth stabilisation and more

Here's a collection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Updated On: 16 Jan 2020 | 6:31 AM IST