Finance & economics | Defying gravity

Emerging markets look unusually resilient

A welcome departure from previous rounds of tightening

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The script is familiar. A Federal Reserve bent on taming inflation mercilessly raises rates. The dollar soars, global financial conditions tighten and the world economy falls into a broad slowdown. But this time, there is a twist. Where writers would normally pencil in an emerging-markets crisis, there is instead an eerie calm.

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