Bond buyers scour Americas


INVESTORS from T Rowe Price Group Inc to TCW Group Inc are embracing a strategy that’s rapidly becoming the norm in emerging markets: pour money into Latin American countries aligned with US President Donald Trump.

Money managers at the firms are favouring government bonds from nations such as Ecuador and Argentina, whose leaders have forged close ties with the US administration, in what JPMorgan Chase & Co calls a “new reality” for the region.

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