Corporate Debt’s Dangling Default Dominoes
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Last year’s corporate bond high-yield 5 percent default rate was the highest in the post-crisis period, with Latin America’s at ...
Argentina’s Unforgiving Reputation Remake
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After solid EMBI and MSCI frontier index gains in 2016, Argentina securities paused on President Macri’s one-year anniversary, with a ...
Japan’s Errant Helicopter Heave
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Japanese investment trusts continued net emerging market fund outflows as domestic bond yields turned positive and the Nikkei index was ...
Israel’s Pesky Path Breaking Provocations
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Israel stocks were down slightly into year-end as the US refused to vote against a UN resolution condemning West Bank ...
Capital Flow Management’s View Vagaries
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The IMF published an updated paper on issues and trends informing its “institutional view” on capital controls since 2012, a ...
Ukraine’s Borderline Bank Rescue Recoil
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Ukraine bonds solidified EMBI index double-digit gains after the central bank, following months of hesitation in directly confronting industry leader ...
China’s Wooly Work Conference Antics
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Chinese stocks scrambled for traction despite equity raising up 30 percent through December and a record 50 IPOs in November, ...
Haiti’s Battered Runoff Replay
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As Hurricane Matthew devastation lingered in a large swathe of the island outside Port au Prince, Haiti’s chronically delayed presidential ...
Central Asia’s Frozen Financial System
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A new World Bank report examining Emerging Europe and Central Asia’s 25-year financial sector reform record cites recovery since the ...
Iran’s Extended Sanctions Slant
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The Tehran Stock exchange index dropped 5 percent, as President-elect Trump won the contest with a signature vow to “rip ...