{"id":13340,"date":"2012-08-09T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/emerging-emerging-markets-stocks-up-1-pct-serb-dinar-firms\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T12:19:33","slug":"emerging-emerging-markets-stocks-up-1-pct-serb-dinar-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/emerging-emerging-markets-stocks-up-1-pct-serb-dinar-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"EMERGING EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks up 1 pct, Serb dinar firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging market stocks rose to<br \/>\nthree-month highs on Thursday, buoyed by expectations of<br \/>\nmonetary easing in China where data showed inflation at 30-month<br \/>\nlows.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s consumer price index rose 1.8 percent last month<br \/>\ncompared with a 2.2 percent increase in June, far below a<br \/>\nthree-year high of 6.5 percent last July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Benchmark emerging stocks rose almost 1 percent,<br \/>\nposting their fifth straight session of gains, while Chinese<br \/>\nequities  rose 0.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turkish and Polish markets   rose almost 1<br \/>\npercent while Russia added 0.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Emerging currencies were generally firmer, with the Serbian<br \/>\ndinar up 0.4 percent after three days of losses<br \/>\nagainst the euro. This follows government promises to slash the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s budget deficit and seek a new deal from the IMF.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The currency plunged to near-record lows this week after<br \/>\nStandard  Poor&#8217;s cut Serbia&#8217;s credit rating amid an ongoing<br \/>\ncentral bank crisis.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rouble firmed to 2-1\/2 month highs against the dollar as<br \/>\noil prices held over $112 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian forint firmed slightly as Budapest<br \/>\nsaw strong demand at its bond auctions, with yields slipping<br \/>\nfrom the previous sale in July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Romanian leu, pressured recently by a political crisis,<br \/>\n was also modestly firmer as the Treasury prepared to<br \/>\nauction two-year bonds.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by Stephen Nisbet)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging market stocks rose to three-month highs on Thursday, buoyed by expectations of monetary easing in China where data showed inflation at 30-month lows. China&#8217;s consumer price index rose 1.8 percent last month compared with a 2.2 percent increase in June, far below a three-year high of 6.5 percent last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}