{"id":8618,"date":"2012-03-06T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/emerging-markets-stocks-at-3-wk-lows-russia-pressured\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:56:07","slug":"emerging-markets-stocks-at-3-wk-lows-russia-pressured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/emerging-markets-stocks-at-3-wk-lows-russia-pressured\/","title":{"rendered":"EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks at 3-wk lows; Russia pressured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Stocks extend losses, fall 1.4 pct on growth, Greece worry<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Russian equities down more than 3 pct; rouble loses 0.7<br \/>\npct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hungary forint at 3-week low vs dollar<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lira at 5-week low, down 1 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Philip Baillie<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging equities<br \/>\nretreated to three-week lows on Tuesday, hurt by worries over<br \/>\nslowing world growth and the looming deadline to complete a<br \/>\nGreek debt restructuring deal while political risks fuelled a 3<br \/>\npercent selloff on Russian stocks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MSCI&#8217;s emerging markets index fell 1.4 percent,<br \/>\nextending Monday&#8217;s losses. The index has lost 2.7 percent this<br \/>\nweek, so far the worst weekly performance since mid-December.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Markets seem to have lost some of their buoyancy from<br \/>\nrecent days as there seem to be a few more worries ahead of the<br \/>\nconclusion of Greek negotiations,&#8221; said William Jackson, an<br \/>\neconomist at Capital Economics in London.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Greece and its creditors are in the final stages of talks to<br \/>\n cancel more than 100 billion euros ($132 billion) in private<br \/>\nsector debts. The deadline is Thursday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Stocks extend losses, fall 1.4 pct on growth, Greece worry * Russian equities down more than 3 pct; rouble loses 0.7 pct * Hungary forint at 3-week low vs dollar * Lira at 5-week low, down 1 pct By Philip Baillie LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Emerging equities retreated to three-week lows on Tuesday, [&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-8618","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\/8618","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=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}