'Double black swan' spells largest emerging market GDP decline on record

Coronavirus and oil price collapse lead to massive drop

Mike Sheen
clock • 5 min read

Battered equity markets have led to investors eyeing some of the cheapest valuations in decades, but the "double black swan" events of the oil price collapse and the coronavirus pandemic are set to spell the first aggregate contraction in emerging market GDP since records began, research suggests.

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