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ARTICLES BY YE XIE

Many traders expect a war-driven revival of growth concerns at the US Fed

War risk has spurred market bets on a less aggressive Fed

4 min read . 02 Mar 2022

China accounted for 38% of the global growth last year, up from 23% in 2010, according to Morgan Stanley. Photo: Bloomberg

China may tip world into recession, Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma says

2 min read . 08 Nov 2016

President Jacob Zuma of South Africa. Turmoil among South Africa’s political leadership prompted such a drop in the rand against the dollar this week that it cut the return on this quarter’s best carry trade in half from 10%. Photo: Bloomberg

Top currency strategy of 2016 turns perilous as risks rise

3 min read . 25 Aug 2016

For much of the time since the financial meltdown eight years ago, investors have been in the mindset that bad economic data is good news for markets. Photo: AFP

Everything’s a buy as central banks keep on greasing markets

4 min read . 09 Jun 2016

The selloff marks another twist in the saga of US-listed Chinese companies seeking to go private, lured by the prospect of re-listing at higher valuations in Shanghai or Shenzhen. Photo: Bloomberg

China’s record $26 billion buyout deals at risk of unraveling

1 min read . 15 May 2016

File photo. George Soros, who built a $24 billion fortune through savvy wagers on markets, has recently been involved in a war of words with the Chinese government. Photo: Bloomberg

George Soros says China’s debt-fueled growth echoes US in 2007-08

2 min read . 21 Apr 2016

IMF last week lowered its 2016 growth projection for developing countries to 4.1%, from 4.3% in October, which still points to a pickup from 4% from 2015. Photo: Bloomberg

Emerging markets roar back to life as bears resume retreat

3 min read . 18 Apr 2016

On average, China’s GDP growth rate has changed 0.2 percentage points each quarter since 2011, less than half of the mean for the rest of the world’s top 10 economies. Photo: Bloomberg

Amid Chinese GDP suspicions, a very predictable pattern emerges

2 min read . 13 Apr 2016

With the dollar losing ground, the average yield of 6.5% on emerging-market local-currency debt started attracting bids in a world where about $8 trillion of global government debt offer rates below zero. Photo: Reuters

‘Trade of a decade’? It doesn’t bode well for emerging markets

3 min read . 01 Apr 2016

Cheaper oil may hurt more than help importers, says Citigroup

1 min read . 26 Jan 2016

Over the last 2 days, PBC has bought enough yuan in Hong Kong to push overnight borrowing costs for the currency to a record 67% on Tuesday from just 4% at the end of last week. Photo: Bloomberg

Behind Chinese yuan’s tiny drop, indications of true crisis lurk

2 min read . 13 Jan 2016

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index has declined 30% since its 2011 high and now trades at about 12 times estimated earnings. Photo: Getty Images

Emerging markets step back from abyss as Goldman turns bullish

3 min read . 23 Nov 2015

Photo: Getty Images

Goldman says the years of emerging-markets doldrums are over

1 min read . 20 Nov 2015

China, which must grow at least 6.5% a year to meet its goal of doubling 2010 gross domestic product by 2020, is more likely to expand between 4% and 5% as the country’s working-age population contracts. Photo: Bloomberg

Morgan Stanley’s China bear puts zero odds on 6% growth rate

2 min read . 20 Nov 2015

A file photo of the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York. Photo: Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs’s BRIC era ends as fund folded after years of losses

4 min read . 09 Nov 2015

A stock investor gestures as he checks share prices at a security firm in Fuyang, east China’s Anhui province on 28 May 2015. Chinese stocks plunged 6.5% on 28 May on concerns over tight liquidity and stricter requirements for margin trading, after closing at a more than seven-year high the previous day, dealers said. Photo: AFP

China $550 billion stock wipeout reminds traders of 2007 catastrophe

4 min read . 01 Jun 2015

In an email, Mobius said his strategy of investing in undervalued stocks can falter in “sentiment-driven” environments, where investors focus more on the overall economic picture than on company fundamentals. Photo: Bloomberg

The end of Mark Mobius’s reign as king of emerging market stocks

4 min read . 08 May 2015

While the drop may be overstated because the strengthening dollar reduced the value of other reserve currencies such as the euro, it still underlines a shift after central banks added an average $824 billion to reserves each year over past the decade. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Once over $12 trillion, the world’s reserves are now shrinking

3 min read . 06 Apr 2015

In recent years, bond issuance from emerging markets has come to be dominated by companies as cash-flush governments scaled back their international borrowing. Photo: Bloomberg

As emerging market debt crisis talk grows, some investors scoff

4 min read . 03 Apr 2015

Currency war is now a dud as windfall from devaluations vanishes

3 min read . 26 Mar 2015