Russian roulette – Weekly update by St. James’s Place Wealth Management

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Russian roulette – Read the full weekly update here

Emerging markets have had a torrid start to 2014 as money shifts back to the developed markets, and central bankers from Ankara to Buenos Aires and New Delhi struggle to keep control of local currencies and their wider economy. Financial volatility in emerging markets has come with civil unrest on the streets of cities from Argentina to Thailand and Venezuela. But it is in Kiev and across Ukraine where political differences and developments have outpaced deteriorating financial conditions – and protest has spilled into violence, the overthrow of government and, now, the spectre of a civil and regional war as Russia’s military seizes installations in the southern autonomous region of Crimea and amasses on Ukraine’s borders.

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