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- Over the short-term, Fed tapering bets sent emerging market equities tumbling.
- Coountries with current account imbalances and fiscal deficits, such as India, Indonesia and Thailand, underperformed, reports Leslie Shaffer for CNBC.
- After the sell-off, some argue that some emerging markets look cheap.
- “In markets, it is all about risk/reward as well as cost of carry, and when I look at emerging market currencies and emerging market rates, only a few markets strike me as majorly overpriced,” Benoit Anne, head of emerging markets strategy at Societe Generale, said in the article.
- “Value there remains strong, and the prospect of increasing export demand from developed economies will support emerging market growth,” Jeff Hussey, global chief investment officer at Russell Investments, said in the article.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.