U.S. News & World Report

Analysis-Emerging Market Local Currency Debt Could End Decade-Long Drought as Dollar Wanes

LONDON (Reuters) -A weakening U.S. dollar is lifting a long-neglected asset class - emerging market local currency debt - after a more than decade-long drought. Emerging market local - currency bond ...
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Prudential Regulation, MDB Treaty Mandates, and the Hidden Barriers to Local-Currency Financing for EMDEs

This issue of CCSI Investment Perspectives was contributed by Callum Thomas. He is a Junior Policy Analyst with the OECD's ...

Monthly dividend ETF posts 13% return while Wall Street questions long-term sustainability of currency risk

VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:EMLC) pays a monthly distribution that currently translates to a trailing yield near 6.1%, a level that sits above the 10-year Treasury at 4.3%, ...
U.S. News & World Report

Exclusive-JPMorgan Closing in on New Frontier Market Local Currency Debt Index, Sources Say

LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - JPMorgan is finalising plans for a new index to track frontier ‌market local currency bonds, investors consulted on the details told ‌Reuters, as the bank looks to satisfy a ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Rising Call-Option Demand Signals EM Local-Currency Bond Gains

Options traders are betting on at least a 10% gain in emerging-market local-currency bonds over the next three months, turning the most optimistic on the asset class in 16 months. The implied ...