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Emerging currencies can weather ‘rate-rise storm’ better than 2013

Bloomberg As global bonds reel under hawkish rhetoric by major central bankers, AllianceBernstein and Amundi Asset Management say emerging-market currencies will weather the storm better than 2013. Improvements in external balances, higher reserves and subdued inflation are among factors making developing-nation economies from India to Mexico appear less vulnerable to the risk of outflows when their advanced peers begin to ...

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HSBC bans eomployees from buying stocks, bonds on personal accounts

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc has instructed about 6,000 employees of its global markets division to cease buying single-name securities on their personal accounts, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Purchases of single-name stocks, bonds and concentrated exchange-traded funds will be prohibited, Global Head of Markets Thibaut de Roux told staff in an email, said the people, who asked ...

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Yuan set for longest run of gains since 2015

Bloomberg The onshore yuan rose for the sixth day in a row, the longest run of gains since 2015, boosted by a stronger central bank fixing and data showing China’s economy held up in the second quarter. The yuan gained 0.05 percent to 6.7704 per dollar as of 5:14 p.m. in Shanghai, extending its six-day advance to 0.5 percent. This ...

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