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Record-Low Inflation Cushions Emerging Markets’ Oil Shock

Inflation has sunk to a record low in emerging markets even as it accelerates in advanced economies, signaling developing countries are better placed to respond to higher energy prices and could see a rebound in their bonds.
A Bloomberg gauge of weighted-average inflation in the developing world narrowed to 2.12% in the first quarter, the lowest level in data going back to 1990. A similar index for developed markets rose to 3.21%.




