Salient to Investors:
Viktor Shvets and Chetan Seth at Macquarie said:
- Emerging markets and economies are in a worse situation than in the 1997 Asian financial crisis because they now face far longer, more painful and insidious disease with limited or no cures or exits, punctuated by occasional significant flare-ups.
- The effect of the 1997 crisis were mitigated by excessively loose monetary policies and China’s integration into global trade, which helped all markets recover quickly. However, this is not the environment facing economies in the next 5 to 10 years: long-term structural shifts, driven by the deflationary progress of the Third Industrial Revolution, is aggravated by overleveraging and overcapacity.
- Turkey, South Africa, and Malaysia are at most risk, while China, the Philippines, and South Korea are at least risk. Brazil and Russia are at lessor risk but their low exposure to external debt could be undermined by slumping commodities and slowing trade.
Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/macquarie-emerging-markets-are-not-facing-a-1997-style-crisis-they-re-facing-something-worse
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