High-yielding bonds in EM may beat peers as treasuries decline
Debt from India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa has outperformed EM peers since April 2, when US President Donald Trump shocked global markets with his tariffs.
Riskier emerging-market bonds may continue to beat their lower-yielding peers as the dollar's slide softens a rise in Treasury yields, protecting investor returns, according to analysis by Bloomberg.
Debt from India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa has outperformed EM peers since April 2, when US President Donald Trump shocked global markets with his tariffs. The dollar rose in the four previous instances since 2021 when 10-year emerging-market bonds reacted to a rise in US benchmark yields. This time, however, the dollar has fallen, allowing currency returns to compensate for the duration spillover impact from higher US yields.
'Spillovers from rising US back-end rates to EM rates might be lower this time around' due to the effect of the weakening greenback, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists including Kamakshya Trivedi and Danny Suwanapruti wrote in a recent note. Higher-yielding EM bonds will tend to benefit more from this environment, they added.
Dollar-funded investments into yielder EM bonds tend to be unhedged due to the high cost of implementing protection relative to their lower-yielding peers, and see larger FX gains when the dollar falls.
The ratio of yield moves this quarter versus the historical average for India was minus 0.88, versus Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa at -0.57, -0.55 and -0.50 respectively. This means that India's yields in the most recent scenario have declined the most relative to its historical mean. Peers which offer lower yields, such as the Czech Republic and South Korea, tend to be more affected by the surge in US yields due to the tighter spreads.
'EM local markets have been a beneficiary of the weaker US dollar this year,' said Anders Faergemann, head of global sovereigns and economics at PineBridge Investments. 'A continuation of that trend would help to cushion local bond performance.'
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End
Indonesia
India
Malaysia
Thailand
S. Korea
S. Africa
Poland
Czech
Mexico
Brazil
Chile
Aug-3-2021
May-6-2022
0.65
0.91
1.34
1.66
1.54
1.15
5.13
2.89
2.16
3.13
0.77
Aug-1-2022
Oct-4-2022
0.09
0.09
0.54
0.55
0.79
0.23
1.45
1.01
1.10
(1.08)
0.92
July-19-2023
Oct-19-2023
0.64
0.34
0.30
0.78
0.77
0.87
0.48
0.67
1.24
1.21
1.14
Sept-16-2024
Jan-6-2025
0.41
0.00
0.07
(0.23)
(0.11)
0.15
0.67
0.46
1.04
2.40
0.35
April-2-2025
May-21-2025
(0.25)
(0.30)
(0.18)
(0.07)
(0.02)
(0.30)
(0.19)
0.03
0.27
(0.78)
(0.05)
Ratio
(0.57)
(0.88)
(0.32)
(0.10)
(0.03)
(0.50)
(0.10)
0.02
(0.20)
(0.55)
(0.07)
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