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        <title><![CDATA[Simon Flint - Former Columnist]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Four Reasons Why Investors Expect US Dollar to Keep Sliding]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-24/four-reasons-why-investors-expect-us-dollar-to-keep-sliding</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Flint]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil-Sensitive Currencies Get a Bigger Boost With Crude Above $80]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Flint]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:33:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman Sees Clues for Dollar’s Path in Past Fed Surprises]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Flint]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:21:39 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, June 20, 2021. The White House on Friday reiterated opposition to indexing the gasoline tax to inflation to help pay for an infrastructure plan, raising new questions about the viability of a bipartisan compromise emerging in the Senate. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Dollar Faces Volatile Week as Fed Policy Makers Line Up to Speak]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Masaki Kondo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:41:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Surging U.S. Yields Loom Over Emerging Markets Beholden to Fed]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-21/surging-u-s-yields-loom-over-emerging-markets-beholden-to-fed</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Netty Idayu Ismail]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 13:26:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A person walks past an electronic board displaying stock activity at the Brasil Bolsa Balcao (B3) stock exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Brazil&apos;s Ibovespa Index fell Thursday following the arrest of former Brazilian president Michel Temer as part of the Carwash corruption probe that&apos;s ensnared some of the country&apos;s top business executives and politicians. Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman’s Weaker Dollar Call Adds to Emerging-Market Fervor]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Farah Elbahrawy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:13:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Selloff Puts Emerging Markets on Trial While Bulls Hang Tough]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Farah Elbahrawy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:51:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Figures for various Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) indices are displayed on an electronic board at the bourse in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Thai equities, Asia&apos;s worst performers this year, will face another drag from the heightened political tension, which would derail the economic recovery amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, said Pakorn. Photographer: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging Markets Gripped by Greed Now Turn to Fed for Fresh Spur]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Farah Elbahrawy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:38:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A trader views speaks on a mobile phone on the main trading floor of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Poland&apos;s bourse is luring more initial public offerings than all of western Europe&apos;s exchanges combined as companies from Slovenia to Lithuania to Ukraine sell shares in Warsaw for the first time. Photographer: John Guillemin</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging Markets Tested by Rising Dollar Ahead of Biden’s Return]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Farah Elbahrawy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Investors monitor stock prices in the trading gallery of the RHB Investment Bank headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Malaysia&apos;s stocks erased declines that dragged the benchmark gauge down more than 20 percent from its 2014 high. Photographer: Sanjit Das</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Valuation Caution Returns as Emerging Markets Face 2021 Reality]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-03/valuation-caution-returns-as-emerging-markets-face-2021-reality</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Farah Elbahrawy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:41:49 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Visitors view the electronic board displaying stock activity at the Brasil Bolsa Bacao (B3) stock exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, May 18, 2017. Brazil&apos;s Ibovespa Index tumbled 7.9 percent, the most since August 2011, as political crisis returned to the country after last year&apos;s impeachment process. Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Lags as Thailand, Russia Rank Top Emerging Market Picks]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Covid, debt and currency valuations are all being watched closely.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Jamrisko]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldilocks Year Awaits Emerging Markets Defying Pandemic Rout]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-29/goldilocks-year-awaits-emerging-markets-defying-pandemic-rout</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 13:12:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging Markets Look to 2021 as Goldman Adds to Bullish Calls]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:02:49 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Construction work on a building near an advertising board showing Hang Seng Index stock price information in the Sandton district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Jobs were at the center of a post-virus reconstruction and recovery plan presented by President Cyril Ramaphosa last month, with the government committing 100 billion rand ($6.37 billion) to create public and social employment opportunities.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging Markets Defy Risks With Turkey Taking Center Stage]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-15/emerging-markets-defy-risks-with-turkey-taking-center-stage</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Netty Idayu Ismail]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Daily exchange rates of Turkish lira, U.S. dollar and euros on an electronic board at a currency exchange in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. The prospect of a Joe Biden victory in the U.S. election is additionally rattling lira traders already concerned over Turkey&apos;s widening current-account deficit, dwindling foreign reserves, geopolitical tensions and rising Covid-19 infections. Photographer: Nicole Tung/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging-Market Dip Buyers Can’t Wait for U.S. Election Results]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-01/emerging-market-traders-brace-for-chaos-as-u-s-election-looms</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Netty Idayu Ismail]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Won, Rupiah Stand to Gain Most When Foreign Flows Return to EM]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/won-rupiah-stand-to-gain-most-when-foreign-flows-return-to-em</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Flint]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Risks Abound for Emerging Markets in Final Week Before U.S. Vote]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-25/u-s-vote-atop-emerging-market-risk-list-to-keep-bulls-at-bay</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Netty Idayu Ismail]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:56:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A voter casts a ballot in a drop off box at an early voting polling location for the 2020 Presidential elections in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. A majority of voters say they&apos;re better off than they were four years ago -- but the country overall is worse off, according to a poll released from NBC/Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Photographer: Roger Kisby/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Countdown to Election Tests Emerging-Market Bulls’ Resilience]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-18/bulls-lose-nerve-in-test-of-emerging-markets-october-resilience</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Netty Idayu Ismail]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 15:31:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Yuan Gain May Be Capped After PBOC Cuts Shorting Costs]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-11/yuan-s-gains-may-be-capped-after-pboc-cuts-shorting-costs</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Flint]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:07:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past the People&apos;s Bank of China (PBOC) building in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. China suffered an even deeper slump than analysts feared at the start of the year as the coronavirus shuttered factories, shops and restaurants across the nation, underscoring the fallout now facing the global economy as the virus spreads around the world. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emerging-Market Traders Cut Wagers on U.S. Election Volatility]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Netty Idayu Ismail]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:26:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Voters wearing protective masks stand in line to cast ballots at an early voting polling location for the 2020 Presidential elections in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Voters who don&apos;t want to show up to the polls in person, for fear of Covid-19 or otherwise, can request mail-in ballots through Oct. 23.</media:description>
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