An indicator of emerging market coins crowned its sixth week of profits, extending the rise on Friday after the renewed tariff threats of President Donald Trump caused investors to leave US assets.
The Coins of Asia and the South African Rand had a better performance, while the Real Brazilian led the profits in Latin America while the US dollar fell to its lowest level since 2023. Meanwhile, the index of emerging market shares was recovered.
In separate publications in Truth Social, Trump said that conversations with the European Union are not advancing and threatened to impose a 50 % tariff on block imports from next month. He also warned that an at least 25 % tariff would be imposed to Apple if it does not manufacture locally the iPhones it sells in the United States. This fed the negativity about the prospects of US assets and made emerging markets relatively more attractive.
“Emerging markets no longer need so wide differentials with respect to the United States, Not because emerging markets have improved, but because US assets now have higher risk premiums, ”said Erick Martínez Magaña, Barclays strategist in New York.
Although Trump’s comments initially affected appetite for risk, The assets of the emerging markets recovered because the operators saw an opportunity to buy, Marco Oviedo said, XP Research investigations in Brazil.
The Brazilian real rose 1.1% while local markets stabilized after the government announced that it would suspend the application of a tax transfers tax abroad. The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, backed down with the plan a few hours after Thursday’s announcement caused a wave of currency sales.
Besides, The South African Rand reached its highest level against the dollar this year, adding its sixth consecutive week of profits. The currency culminates a volatile week after a heated encounter between Trump and President Cyril Ramaphosa and the presentation of the national budget.
Investors will focus their attention on the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, who will speak on Sunday.
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Uncertainty about US fiscal and commercial policy is reducing the attractiveness of US assets, and emerging market investors expect this kind of assets to benefit as part of that cash will be reversed in actions and bonds from developing countries. At the same time, the estimates of benefits of companies in emerging markets have increased at a faster rate than those of their American counterparts. The MSCI index of emerging markets has risen almost 9% so far this year.
“Emerging markets are having a solid year, backed by an appetite for the moderate risk, differential performance of narrow bonds and profits in the variable income,” said Emre Akcakmak, East capital manager of East Capital International AB. “A weaker dollar and lower oil prices could further reinforce this relatively optimistic panorama.”
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Ukrainian dollar bonds operated mixed on Friday; Some notes stopped sales of the week, since the United States said it would not exert more pressure on Russia to negotiate a quick end to war between the two countries.
The sovereign bonds in Indonesia dollars were recovered, obtaining the best performance in a Bloomberg index for this kind of assets. The Government appointed new directors for its tax and customs offices to reverse the drastic drop in income collection. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance announced that Indonesia plans to diversify its debt portfolio by resorting to foreign yuan markets and Australian dollars for the sale of bonds in foreign currency.
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