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Emerging markets continued to expand at a solid pace midway into the first quarter of 2024, supported by broad-based expansion across both manufacturing and service sectors.
Emerging markets have taken solace in the view that the U.S. hiking cycle is over, helping deliver strong returns in 2023. Slowing global inflation has been due to sharply lower core goods inflation, while service prices have remained stickier.
Emerging markets will also be looking closely at economic conditions in mainland China, which will be a key determinant of broader emerging market growth in 2024. A key reason for diverging emerging and developed market performance was the marked variation in demand conditions.
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Stocks have been under pressure to start the week, following four successive weeks of decline.
Federal Reserve officials showed cautious optimism about U.S. economic recovery. This along with rising inflation has triggered the talks of QE taper.
Past experience shows us that emerging markets have historically reacted positively to higher global rates, especially if the latter reflects an improving global growth outlook. Most emerging markets will start normalizing rates well before the U.S. and developed markets.
Asian markets rose in August to seal the best regional performance in EMs. Stocks in China, India and Indonesia posted notable gains.