There’s so much positive momentum in risk assets, it’s difficult to see what could stand in the way of the emerging market (EM) rally, at least in the coming days.
The stronger-than-forecast May US jobs report and weekend agreement by Opec+ to a one-month extension of its record output cuts may add to the optimism about the prospects for a global economic recovery, underpinning risk assets. JPMorgan’s measure of implied volatility for EM currencies had its biggest weekly drop since 2011.
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