Emerging Markets Remain at Ease Even as Mideast War Escalates
The worsening Israel-Iran conflict is having little impact on the geopolitical risk premium for emerging markets, with investors betting that Tehran is too weak to spark a global market crisis.
Across bonds, currencies and stocks, measures of risk are contracting despite Israel's war with Iran, as expectations of monetary easing, dollar weakness and an artificial intelligence boom dominate price action. Money managers say emerging-market gains and outperformance over US assets this year will continue as risks arising from the conflict will be neither deep nor lingering.
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