{"id":7159,"date":"2012-01-18T20:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/emerging-markets-stocks-at-2-mth-high-forint-lira-gain\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T20:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:53:58","slug":"emerging-markets-stocks-at-2-mth-high-forint-lira-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/emerging-markets-stocks-at-2-mth-high-forint-lira-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks at 2-mth high; forint, lira gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Stocks rise half percent to two-month high<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hungarian stocks, forint at one-month highs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Turk lira at over 1-mth high vs the dollar<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alessandra  Prentice<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging stocks inched up<br \/>\nto a fresh two-month high on Wednesday and the Hungarian forint<br \/>\nstrengthened on hopes of an IMF aid deal though gains on most<br \/>\nmarkets were capped by worries over Greece.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Risk appetite benefited from talk the International Monetary<br \/>\nFund may do more to help resolve the European debt crisis but<br \/>\ninvestors were fretting about the outcome of Greece&#8217;s talks with<br \/>\ncreditors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Athens is trying to break a deadlock in negotiations to<br \/>\nslash the country&#8217;s debt and stave off default.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MSCI emerging equities index edged up 0.3<br \/>\npercent and the Thomson Reuters Emerging Europe index<br \/>\n rose 0.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Emerging markets, which underperformed developed markets<br \/>\nlast year, soared nearly 2 percent on Monday as<br \/>\nbetter-than-expected economic data from China revived risk<br \/>\nappetite. The index is up 6.5 percent so far in January.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Stocks rise half percent to two-month high * Hungarian stocks, forint at one-month highs * Turk lira at over 1-mth high vs the dollar By Alessandra Prentice LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging stocks inched up to a fresh two-month high on Wednesday and the Hungarian forint strengthened on hopes of an IMF aid [&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-7159","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\/7159","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=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}