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《TAIPEI TIMES》 Emerging Asia hit by investor exodus

A man touches a bull statue outside a retail and wholesale clothing mall in Beijing yesterday.
Photo: AP

A man touches a bull statue outside a retail and wholesale clothing mall in Beijing yesterday. Photo: AP

2018/06/19 03:00

RED FLAGS: Overseas funds are pulling out of six major Asian emerging equity markets, including Taiwan, at a pace unseen since the global financial crisis of 2008

/ Bloomberg

A falling tide lowers all boats, it seems. Amid an exodus from emerging markets, investors are pulling out of even Asian economies with solid prospects for growth and debt financing.

Overseas funds are pulling out of six major Asian emerging equity markets at a pace unseen since the global financial crisis of 2008, withdrawing US$19 billion from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand so far this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

While emerging markets shone in the first quarter, suggesting resilience to US Federal Reserve tightening, that image has shattered over the past two months. With US money market funds now offering yields of about 2 percent — where 10-year US Treasuries were just last September — and prospects for more Fed hikes, the bar for heading into riskier assets has been raised.

Headlines on trade disputes that could hit Asian exporters have not helped.

“It’s not a great setup for emerging markets,” James Sullivan, head of Asia ex-Japan equities research at JPMorgan Chase & Co, told Bloomberg TV from Singapore. “We’ve still only priced in about two-thirds of the US rate increases we expect to see over the next 12 months. So the Fed is continuing to get more hawkish, but the market still hasn’t caught up.”

While many emerging-market investors and analysts have praised Asian economic fundamentals, pointing to world-leading growth rates and political stability, some are starting to raise red flags as global liquidity starts to shrink.

The Bloomberg JPMorgan Asia Dollar Index yesterday sank to its lowest this year, extending two weeks of declines after the Fed and European Central Bank both took steps toward policy normalization.

Yet some still remain optimistic. Bank of America Merrill Lynch expects some of the regional currencies, including the baht and the Philippine peso, to appreciate slightly by the end of the year, a research note sent yesterday showed.

Six of 10 best-performing emerging currencies so far this year are in Asia, led by the ringgit’s 1.2 percent advance and the yuan’s 1.1 percent gain.

Developing nations, including Turkey, Indonesia, India and Argentina, have raised rates, while Brazil’s central bank has sold extra foreign-exchange swap contracts in an effort to stabilize their markets.

In Asia this week, the Philippine central bank, which last month raised its key rate for the first time since 2014, is expected to lift the benchmark again by 25 basis points to 3.5 percent, a Bloomberg survey shows.

The Bank of Thailand is expected to keep its benchmark unchanged at 1.5 percent the same day, according to a separate Bloomberg survey, though JPMorgan for one sees an increase coming next quarter.

The baht has tumbled 4.6 percent against the US dollar this quarter, despite Thailand having a current account surplus in excess of a whopping 9 percent of GDP.

Thailand is also in the midst of the longest stretch of 3.5 percent plus GDP growth since the early 2000s, according to the IMF.

Thai Minister of Finance Apisak Tantivorawong yesterday said that he was not concerned about capital outflows and that the nation’s central bank need not follow the Fed in raising rates.

The baht hit its lowest this year yesterday.

新聞來源:TAIPEI TIMES

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