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Troy Donohue, BTIG head of Americas portfolio trading, and Katie Stockton, Fairlead Strategies founder, sit down with CNBC's Bob Pisani to discuss how the world of tactical ETFs is growing, the different strategies firms are using, and how diversification is making a comeback on 'ETF Edge'.
Macro conditions remain a bit of a mixed bag. In the past week alone, the latest read on inflation surprised to the downside, while unemployment figures beat estimates to the upside.
Emerging markets offer attractive alternatives to fixed income investors searching for yield amid the trillions of dollars of negative-, zero-, and low-yielding debt globally. Within emerging market hard currency investment grade bonds, we think it is prudent to be shorter duration or at least hedge the Treasury risk component, given the low yield per unit of duration today.
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.
We do not expect faster growth to lead to a significant deterioration in most macro variables. The huge amount of negative-yielding debt globally will likely continue to encourage investors to increase allocations to emerging markets.
Today, China's economic recovery continues ticking along, and we are even seeing some indicators showing growth relative to last year.
During the COVID-19 crisis, investor flight to safety assets and a strong US dollar battered emerging market stocks this year.
Among this week's highlights indicating emerging market focus on accessing long-term debt are a 30-year issue for the Emirate of Sharjah and plans by Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem to raise hybrid debt, following recent perpetual sales by Emirates NBD, Banorte and DP World.
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