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<p>Emerging market stocks stemmed losses on Thursday, helped by a rally in Mainland China and emerging Europe, but remained on course for their first quarterly loss since the coronavirus pandemic flared in March 2020.</p>



<p>Beijing&#8217;s efforts to quell fears of a power shortage, and a string of downbeat economic data from China, weaker-than-expected September factory activity being the latest, spurred bets of monetary policy easing, lifting heavy-weight mainland China stocks .</p>



<p>But Hong Kong stocks fell as technology giants lagged and real estate firms followed Evergrande lower after it missed a deadline for a coupon repayment.</p>



<p>MSCI&#8217;s index of EM shares was flat. While worries about an economic slowdown in China spooked some other Asian shares, those elsewhere took heart from a higher open for Western European bourses.</p>



<p>Russian stocks were on their way back to record highs, up 0.8%, while those in Turkey, Hungary and Poland rallied between 0.3% and 0.4%</p>



<p>&#8220;A sense of calm has certainly returned to financial markets following the heavy sell-off across equities witnessed earlier in the week,&#8221; said Lukman Otunuga, a senior research analyst at FXTM.</p>



<p>But the broader EM index was set for a quarterly drop of about 9%, breaking a five-quarter winning streak. Beijing&#8217;s crackdown on businesses, worries about a likely default at Evergrande, slowing growth and rising inflation weighed on risk appetite this quarter.</p>



<p>This would be the index&#8217;s worst third quarter since the September quarter of 2015.</p>



<p>With the greenback holding steady near one-year highs against major peers, most emerging currencies attempted gains.</p>



<p>Turkey&#8217;s beleaguered lira was 0.5% firmer, pulling away from a record closing low of 8.9490 marked on Wednesday as worries persist over President Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s influence on monetary policy.</p>



<p>South Africa&#8217;s rand climbed 0.5% in its best day in about three weeks, while Russia&#8217;s rouble firmed 0.4%.</p>



<p>Ahead of a central bank meeting on Thursday, Mexico&#8217;s peso snapped a four-day losing streak to rise 0.2%. The benchmark interest rate is expected to be hiked by 25 basis points to 4.75%.</p>



<p>Tunisian bonds continued their climb and the currency jumped 1%, attempting to recoup losses suffered in the previous session.</p>



<p>President Kais Saied named Najla Bouden Romdhane, a little-known professor of geophysics, as Tunisia&#8217;s first woman prime minister on Wednesday. After being elected in 2019, Saied had been under pressure to form a government.</p>



<p>Poland&#8217;s zloty rose 0.2% against the euro. Poland&#8217;s Constitutional Tribunal will make its third attempt on Thursday to rule on whether the country&#8217;s constitution or European law takes precedence in solving disputes.</p>



<p>For GRAPHIC on emerging market FX performance in 2021, see <a href="http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh</a></p>



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