Emerging Market Sell Off After Fed Announcement

Why have emerging markets been hit so hard by talk of an end to the Fed’s bond buying program? You have to go back to the basic belief about the program: that much of the money that flooded the economy ended up in stocks, and that much of that money went to overseas investments.
There was a particularly strong liquidity-induced exuberance in emerging markets like India, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, even Indonesia.
But the opposite trend is now evident: moderating liquidity is putting a squeeze on emerging markets. The Fed’s tidal wave of liquidity has distorted the risk curve. We are now seeing are pricing of that risk curve. The stronger dollar–and higher yields in the U.S.–has clobbered currencies and bonds.
And no wonder: U.S. investors are the biggest foreign investors in the world. When U.S. rates start backing up, you get a magnified effect. So everyone’s long emerging markets, the bids disappear, and you get these crisis-type moves.

via CNBC

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