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Worsening Outlook Weighs on Financial Equities

EMERGING MARKETS
  • In the past year, the sharp increase in ST interest rates combined with the rise in global liquidity have been the major drivers of EM financial stocks.
  • However, the worsening economic outlook amid rising Covid uncertainty combined with the significant rise in LT interest rates could start to weigh on banks' profitability in the near term.
  • In addition, we previously saw that the drastic fall in China real money growth (defined as the difference between M1 growth and PPI inflation) is pricing in further weakness in financial equities.
  • The chart below shows that China real M1 has historically strongly led EM financial equities by 6 months.
  • EM Financials (MXEF0FN Index) have been consolidating lower this month, currently trading slightly above their 200DMA (337.80); a break below that level would open the door for a move down to 330 (LT upward trending support line).

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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