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Emerging markets on edge as virus spreads from China

Bloomberg The rapid spread of a deadly virus from China will be top of emerging-market investors’ minds as they ponder its impact on the global economy. Concern that the outbreak will develop into something akin to the Sars pandemic of 2003 halted a seven-week rally in developing-nation stocks, currencies and bonds in the five days through Friday. The yuan underperformed …

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Fed seen holding rates steady, ending bill purchases by June

Bloomberg Federal Reserve policy makers will keep interest rates on hold this year and next, and will wind up their efforts to boost excess bank reserves by June, economists said in a Bloomberg survey. In the January 21-23 poll, the mean forecast from 28 respondents predicted no move in the federal funds rate until at least 2022, the same as …

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Nordic Banks heading into the darkest phase of negative rate cycle

Bloomberg If you want to know what long-term negative interest rates are doing to banks, watch Denmark in the coming months. Danes have lived with subzero rates longer than anyone else, after the central bank resorted to the policy in 2012 to defend its currency peg. But according to the country’s financial watchdog, it’s only now that the real cost …

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