EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks, FX broadly unchanged as focus on S.Africa, Kenya
Sri Lanka signs debt deal with creditor nations in Paris
Turkey banking sector outlook revised to ‘improving’, Fitch says
Hungary to lift countercyclical capital buffer for banks
India’s debt index entry to suck $11 bln from other markets
Stocks up 0.2%, FX off 0.1%
By Johann M Cherian
June 26 (Reuters) -Currencies and equities in most emerging markets traded around flat on Wednesday, as investors awaited cabinet appointments in South Africa and monitored tensions in Kenya.
MSCI’s index tracking developing market stocks .MSCIEF edged 0.2% higher, while an index tracking currencies .MIEM00000CUS slipped 0.1% against the dollar.
In South Africa, officials hinted that announcements executive appointments in the country’s first coalition government could be announced on Wednesday or Thursday.
The rand ZAR= was flat, while yield on the benchmark sovereign bond ZAR2030= ticked up one basis point (bps).
“Investors will look for more accountability from the government and some checks and balances that could strengthen institutional confidence that serious issues with South Africa’s infrastructure investment and corruption would be addressed,” Shaniel Ramjee, senior investment manager at Pictet Asset Management, said.
Elsewhere in Africa, the Kenyan shilling KES= slipped 0.1% in low volumes, and yield on local bonds KE5YT=RR, KE10YT=RR climbed one to three bps, as protesters vowed to maintain demonstrations against new tax hikes, a day after police opened fire on crowds trying to storm parliament.
“The demonstrations reflect public opposition to the stringent IMF conditions that the government has been pursuing in line with its loan programme, which has worsened the cost-of-living situation in the country,” analysts at BancTrust & Co said.
Turkey’s main equities index .XU100 dropped 0.8%, with the banking index .XBANK also losing 0.8%. Ratings agency Fitch revised the outlook on local lenders to “improving” following the country’s shift to more orthodox macro policy.
The lira TRYTOM=D4 traded at 32.95 to the dollar. Economists expect the local central bank to leave rates unchanged at 50% on Thursday.
In south Asia, India’s BSE Sensex index .BSESN traded at record highs, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year bond IN10YT=RR was broadly flat ahead of the country’s inclusion in JPMorgan’s emerging market bond index, starting on Friday.
Analysts have estimated the inclusion could draw a combined $11 billion away from South Africa, Poland and Thailand’s local markets.
Sri Lanka’s main stock index .KSE and rupee LKR= showed a muted reaction to the country’s deal with creditor nations to restructure about $5.9 billion in bilateral debt. The country is also in the process of signing bilateral debt treatment agreements with China’s export import bank.
Most currencies in central and eastern Europe traded flat against the euro.
The National Bank of Hungary said it will raise the countercyclical capital buffer rate for banks to 1% due to geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, with effect from July 1, 2025. The equities index .BUX climbed 0.2%.
Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru; editing by Barbara Lewis
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