Fortun links September withdrawals from emerging-market portfolios to higher sovereign yields and expectations that interest rates would stay elevated. The Reuters report separates continued Chinese debt outflows from flows into other developing economies.
Robin Brooks · Gene Ma · Jonathan Fortun / Institute of International Finance
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China’s exchange rate signals in September 2023 appeared at odds with its interest in avoiding another destabilizing devaluation. Robin Brooks, Gene Ma and Jonathan Fortun argue that allowing the renminbi to trade near the weak edge of its band encouraged expectations of a currency adjustment. They interpret much of China’s weakness as a reversal of pandemic spending patterns, rather than a reason to repeat the capital flight associated with 2015.
Chinese equities drove emerging market portfolio withdrawals in August 2023 as disappointment over growth and policy support unsettled investors. Jonathan Fortun links the outflows to doubts about China’s recovery, while explaining why lower currency volatility continued to attract foreign investors to local debt markets outside China.
Fortun explains how lower currency volatility increased the appeal of emerging-market debt as Chinese bonds recorded their first monthly foreign inflow of 2023. He also identifies elections and regional risks that could interrupt the improvement.
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US inflation was looking more like a fading supply shock than a persistent excess demand problem in this August 2023 assessment. Jonathan Fortun and Robin Brooks revisit their view that price pressures had narrowed since mid 2022 and interpret the early 2023 pickup as annual price resets. They argue that more modest underlying inflation could allow faster and larger Federal Reserve rate cuts than markets then anticipated.
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Do currency devaluations actually lift exports? Robin Brooks and Jonathan Fortun examine large, persistent depreciations since 1990 across advanced and emerging economies. Their July 2023 analysis finds an early increase in export volumes and a shift from external deficits toward surpluses, challenging the view that dollar invoicing prevents a meaningful trade response.