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Mid-Year Outlook: Policy Easing Supports Asian Bonds
Loosening monetary policy amongst Asia’s central banks should provide a good environment for the region’s debt markets. However, all this could change if the truce between the US and China expires.
The first half of this year has been a story of resilience, with emerging market stocks and bonds recovering from 2018’s dip and delivering better-than-expected returns. In particular, Asian local currency government bonds recorded a total return of 4.7% in US dollar terms*, as measured by Markit iBoxx Pan Asia Bond Index, in the first six months of 2019.
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