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Absorbing bad news in waves

By Prieur du Plessis, on April 23rd, 2008 posted in: South Africa

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By Cees Bruggemans

This is turning out to be a trying month for most emerging markets.

With relative low per capita incomes, their inflation baskets are heavily weighted with food and oil costs.

This has made emerging-market inflation rise much faster than developed-country inflation in response to rapidly [...]

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