Economics
Risks and Rewards: An Investors’ Guide to Asia Markets in 2018
- Asia seen outperforming the rest of EM in stocks, currencies
- Thailand, Indonesia to hold elections; N. Korea threat lingers
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Asia was the place to be for emerging-market investors in 2017, but a slew of issues and events risk standing in the way of the region repeating that world-beating performance.
From Donald Trump’s approach to trade to North Korea’s saber rattling and China’s ongoing quest to cut debt -- there’s no shortage of potential threats to what analysts and investors say should be another banner year for stocks and currencies in Asia’s developing markets.