Emerging Markets Get Thumbs Up After Staring Down Tough Quarter

  • Asia stocks favored most in survey, Latin America bonds second
  • Mexican peso, yuan, won seen most vulnerable to trade wars
The electronic board at the Brasil Bolsa Bacao (B3) stock exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg
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As the old American Timex watch advertising sloganBloomberg Terminal went, they took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’.

Emerging-market stocks beat peers from developed nations in the first quarter as investors tangled with an escalation in trade tensions, a jump in bond yields and bank-funding costs, and a sell-off in technology stocks. And investors, strategists and traders remain bullish on emerging assets for the rest of 2018, a Bloomberg survey shows.