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(Bloomberg) -- Playbooks for emerging-market carry trades are getting redrafted as favored funding currencies gear up for gains, threatening to eat into investors’ returns.

(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia isn’t in a rush to tap global bond markets this year after skipping its usual January issuance, instead it seeks a window of opportunity amid expected Federal Reserve tightening.

(Bloomberg) -- The Philippine government has mandated banks to sell a planned dollar bond, as it weighs raising as much as $7 billion via foreign commercial notes this year, a person familiar with the deal said.

(Bloomberg) -- A unit of Old Mutual Ltd. hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to help it acquire Africa-focused renewable-energy firm Lekela Power BV, according to people familiar with the matter.

(Bloomberg) -- Credit investors are in a “sell what you can” mood in an environment of rising rates and political tensions, a Bank of America Corp. survey showed, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists telling clients to switch to cash.

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street veteran Peter Kraus said the Federal Reserve will avoid a 50-basis-point increase in interest rates, even as markets gyrate over concerns about inflation and geopolitical conflict.

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. said intelligence indicates Russia may attack Ukraine before the Beijing Winter Olympics end on Feb. 20. Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday, as will the countries’ top diplomats.  Moscow has repeatedly denied it plans an invasion, as the U.S.

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(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. said intelligence indicates Russia may attack Ukraine before the Beijing Winter Olympics end on Feb. 20. Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday, as will the countries’ top diplomats.  Moscow has repeatedly denied it plans an invasion, as the U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- Greece wants to regain investment grade status in early 2023, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who pledged not to deviate from fiscal targets already set.