"Fragile five" trade balances improving

EM export growth continued to gather pace in November and forward-looking indicators suggest that the recovery has further to run. There are signs that the trade balances of the “fragile five” EMs have started to improve. However, this has mainly come about from a fall in imports, rather than a rise in exports as some may have hoped. 

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