Emerging Assets Fall as Hawkish Powell Offsets US-China Truce
South Korean 50,000 won banknotes at the Bank of Korea headquarters in Seoul.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/BloombergEmerging-market assets declined Thursday as remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that reduced expectations for a December rate cut reverberated in global markets.
Powell’s comments, which sent risk-assets tumbling the previous session, offset the impact of a trade truce between the US and China.