{"id":6088,"date":"2011-12-14T00:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/emerging-markets-emerging-stocks-hit-2-wk-low-russia-pressured\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T00:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:14:49","slug":"emerging-markets-emerging-stocks-hit-2-wk-low-russia-pressured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/emerging-markets-emerging-stocks-hit-2-wk-low-russia-pressured\/","title":{"rendered":"EMERGING MARKETS-Emerging stocks hit 2-wk low, Russia pressured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging stocks down on global risk aversion<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging bond spreads tighter<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Russian assets pressured on political risk, Russia plans<br \/>\nbond<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Forint firms vs euro as inflation supports rate hike hopes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Seltem Iyigun<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging stocks hit their<br \/>\nlowest in two weeks on Tuesday as expectations of further euro<br \/>\nzone credit downgrades and global debt fears pushed investors<br \/>\ntowards safer assets, while Russian assets came under pressure<br \/>\non political worries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fitch Ratings said late on Monday that the European Union<br \/>\nsummit had failed to provide a &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; solution to the<br \/>\ncrisis, thus increasing short-term pressure on euro zone<br \/>\nsovereign ratings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday&#8217;s sell-off continues. There is nothing new in the<br \/>\nmarkets. It is mainly due to EU summit decisions and weak<br \/>\neconomic data,&#8221; said Murat Toprak, emerging markets strategist<br \/>\nat HSBC.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>European Union leaders ended Friday&#8217;s summit with a historic<br \/>\nagreement to draft a new treaty for deeper integration in the<br \/>\neuro zone, but investors remained sceptical about a long-term<br \/>\nsolution to the debt crisis.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Emerging stocks down on global risk aversion * Emerging bond spreads tighter * Russian assets pressured on political risk, Russia plans bond * Forint firms vs euro as inflation supports rate hike hopes By Seltem Iyigun LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging stocks hit their lowest in two weeks on Tuesday as expectations of [&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-6088","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\/6088","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=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}