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...Once again, stark underperformance, and even undershooting the MSCI EM index over the past decade....
...Per the FT: […] Hunt unveiled an advisory council made up of economists with close ties or former links to the Treasury: Rupert Harrison, who was an adviser to former chancellor George Osborne; Karen Ward...
...But will the new era of austerity at least ward off the danger that the UK slumps into an EM-style “sudden stop” crisis, as some analysts have been warning? Well . . ....
...I don’t like the feeling of walking into an EM Forster novel; times have changed....
...“Bring ’em on!” said Anton Moore, the Democratic leader of the 48th ward, where Ms Gilliam lives. “We’ll have some unfriendly people waiting for them.”...
...Richard Ward Ward Associates Asia Limited, Wan Chai, Hong Kong...
...BlackRock adds: “Earnings estimates — as well as equity returns — in EM and Japan have historically been the most sensitive....
...David Ward, a bankruptcy attorney who represents older debtors in northern Illinois, says that “many senior cases are filed as a matter of psychological relief, as much as anything else”....
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...Banks are scrambling for new technologies to ward off this threat. Out with the old Efforts by Southeast Asian banks to drive the cashless revolution have had limited success....
...nor no see ‘em....
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...The question now is whether MSCI feels the market is functional enough to include a portion of A-shares into its EM index. Follow us on Twitter @em_sqrd...
...The flipside to EUR and JPY weakness was USD strength, which may have amplified the commodity market sell-off and exacerbated EM FX weakness....
...The JPMorgan EM currency index is down 3.7 per cent this year, leading some countries to put blockades in place to ward off further currency collapse....
...Last year I probed these questions using Ward’s Method, a quantitative approach that clusters things based on the “minimum variance” of certain factors — that is, grouping things whose qualities were statistically...
...This week the European Central Bank will meet to discuss whether fresh stimulus measures are needed to ward off the threat of deflation....
...Lessons: Dr Al-Ubaydli initially struggled to gain the ear of other doctors, especially his younger peers, who worried that empowering patients would expose their inexperience....
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...Investors pulled a net $4.5bn from EM funds in the week to July 30, according to data from EPFR, compared with $3.3bn a week earlier....
...Em and the Big Hoom, by Peter Yeung, Viking, RRP£14.99, 224 pages “Home is not address, home is family,” opines an old hand in ward 33 of Bombay’s Sir JJ Hospital....
...We can construct specific defences to keep specific threats at bay — a spear to ward off wolves, for example — but we must live in the terrible knowledge that no walls or weapons will keep us safe forever...
...This is the third of a series of guest posts by Trusted Sources on reform in emerging markets as outlined in Beyond the acronyms, EM reform is what really counts....
...Behind the falls are a revival in confidence in Europe’s monetary union – and speculation that the European Central Bank will soon start buying bonds as part of a “quantitative easing” programme to ward...
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