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Falling equities in China unlikely to trigger a rout elsewhere

A 5% fall in the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index since mid-June has primarily been driven by a 15% slump in the MSCI China Index, which in turn can be attributed to the collapse in share prices on the Chinese mainland. But equities in many of the other countries in the MSCI EM Index have held up much better and we expect this to remain the case even if stocks in China continue to suffer.

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