The US bank says the impact of slowdowns and downgrades in the world’s second-biggest economy on other developing nations has declined “precipitously” over the past three years
The runoff on October 15 is seen as more likely to usher in a market-friendly president, and the country’s dollar securities were the top gainers across emerging markets on Monday
Net longs in Mexico’s peso, which is the most popular emerging-market currency with Japanese retail investors in publicly available data from Tokyo Financial Exchange, reached a record high this month in figures going back to 2017
The world’s major central banks meet in the coming week to set monetary policy amid continued signs that the worst inflation crisis in decades is easing
Investors aren’t yet discussing El Niño’s effects in depth, “which makes me nervous that we may be complacent to this risk,” said Eimear Daly, an emerging-market strategist at NatWest in London
Three of the top five performers this year — Colombia, Brazil and Poland — are rated as “free,” while two others — Hungary and Mexico, were ranked “partly free” by the think tank’s annual Freedom in the World report
