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We know from painful experience that financial markets’ short-term focus and herd behavior often lead them to neglect significant economic
fundamentals.
Instead, exchange rate stability will be assessed according to economic
fundamentals
and countries' economic policy mix, rather than by rigidly applying mechanical rules.
As a result, after years of poor performance, the Shanghai Composite Index soared by more than 100% in less than seven months, from 2,505 points in November 2014 to over 5,178 last June – a level that was not merited by China’s economic
fundamentals.
The eurozone owes its ostensible immunity from financial-market gyrations to major improvements in the peripheral economies’ fundamentals: growth has picked up, and unemployment, though still high, is declining rapidly.
Many on the left believe that the current political system’s
fundamentals
are sound, and that any reform should aim to consolidate rather than undermine it.
They disagree on
fundamentals
– most of all, about how to surmount the economic crisis.
Despite improvements and reforms, many of Japan's
fundamentals
remain woeful.
But debate about the
fundamentals
of the global economy is far from over.
Eighth, some emerging-market economies with weaker economic
fundamentals
may not be able to avoid a severe financial crisis, despite massive IMF support.
Perhaps the long-awaited upward convergence of economic
fundamentals
to validate market valuations is within reach.
But the recent price surge looks suspiciously like a bubble, with the increase only partly justified by economic
fundamentals.
The recent rise in gold prices is only partially justified by
fundamentals.
In 2017, they will need to reappraise how the global economy works, and recalibrate accordingly their assessment of every stock or bond on sale, because even if some market
fundamentals
remain the same, many others have clearly changed.
In addition, the Fund is working on a new liquidity line to provide resources immediately to strongly performing emerging markets with sound policies and
fundamentals.
Whatever the problems in the financial system, the massive improvements over the years in technology, productivity, and social progress – the real
fundamentals
– are a genuine testament to the power of globalization as a force for good.
In any case, given China’s economic fundamentals, it is difficult to imagine that the renminbi would have fallen so far that it would have triggered a financial crisis.
They are pessimistic because the economy’s
fundamentals
are weak – a fundamental difference.
If an economy’s
fundamentals
are very weak, a crisis will inevitably occur sooner or later; if its
fundamentals
are very strong, a crisis never happens; and if they are in an intermediate range, a crisis happens if – and only if – people expect one.
At risk are the very
fundamentals
that underpin current optimism.
Most Latin American countries feature strong economic fundamentals, and part of their inflation merely reflects a high weight for food (much higher than in advanced economies) in their calculations of the consumer price index.
Faster growth and stronger
fundamentals
are already attracting capital inflows into countries like Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Uruguay.
So if the correlation makes sense given the fundamentals, it seems sensible to bet on its persistence.
Given this, only a change in
fundamentals
– the US economy outperforms the consensus forecast and the Fed initiates monetary tightening earlier than anticipated, or other economies’ performance is even worse than expected – would cause the dollar to strengthen further.
It amounts to a pre-approved loan that eligible countries can obtain whenever they want, on the basis of the strength of their
fundamentals
and policy record.
Instead of forcing countries to work for approval, the IMF could create a new FCL-like facility for which all of its members are pre-approved, with the exception of countries that do not meet certain criteria in terms of policies and
fundamentals.
Complicating matters even more, these inflows have become less and less connected to the recipient countries’ economic and financial
fundamentals.
To meet the latter objective, they turn to prudently managed countries, placing upward pressure on their currencies, too – and, again, beyond what would be warranted by domestic
fundamentals.
Many have sound macroeconomic, financial, and policy
fundamentals.
Moreover, some of the medium-term
fundamentals
for most emerging markets, including the fragile ones, remain strong: urbanization, industrialization, catch-up growth from low per capita income, a demographic dividend, the emergence of a more stable middle class, the rise of a consumer society, and the opportunities for faster output gains once structural reforms are implemented.
That demand brought the quest for peace back to its fundamentals, where the question of the refugees is bound to play a central role.
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