{"id":7409,"date":"2012-01-26T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/emerging-markets-up-on-fed-stimulus-pledge-rouble-gains\/"},"modified":"2012-01-26T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:12:56","slug":"emerging-markets-up-on-fed-stimulus-pledge-rouble-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/emerging-markets-up-on-fed-stimulus-pledge-rouble-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"EMERGING MARKETS-Up on Fed stimulus pledge, rouble gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging assets up on Fed pledge<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rouble extends gains, forint leads east Europe FX gains<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sentiment boost for Lithuania, Hungary debt sales<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alessandra  Prentice<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging stocks jumped 1.5<br \/>\npercent on Thursday after a pledge by the U.S Federal Reserve to<br \/>\nconsider more stimulus boosted appetite for riskier assets,<br \/>\nwhile Russia&#8217;s rouble extended recent gains after its central<br \/>\nbank ruled out near-term rate cuts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Improving sentiment paved the way for Lithuania to raise<br \/>\n$1.5 billion in a 10-year bond sale and for Hungary to sell more<br \/>\nlocal government debt than originally targeted.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s forint led Central European currencies<br \/>\nhigher despite a warning from the International Monetary Fund<br \/>\nthat Budapest&#8217;s central bank and tax policies could jeopardise<br \/>\nits efforts to secure new aid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unequivocally easier monetary policy stance set out by<br \/>\nFed chief Ben Bernanke on Wednesday diluted concerns over<br \/>\nfloundering Greek debt talks and anaemic global demand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asian export powerhouse South Korea&#8217;s fourth-quarter<br \/>\neconomic growth surprised the market, coming in at just half the<br \/>\npace that economists polled by Reuters had predicted.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Emerging assets up on Fed pledge * Rouble extends gains, forint leads east Europe FX gains * Sentiment boost for Lithuania, Hungary debt sales By Alessandra Prentice LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging stocks jumped 1.5 percent on Thursday after a pledge by the U.S Federal Reserve to consider more stimulus boosted appetite for [&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-7409","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\/7409","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=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}