Global investors brace for China crash, says IIF

Finance institute forecasts net capital outflow from emerging markets for first time since 1988 leaving states vulnerable to 'capital drought'

Global investors will suck capital out of emerging economies this year for the first time since 1988, as they brace themselves for a Chinese crash, according to the Institute of International Finance.

Capital flooded into promising emerging economies in the years that followed the global financial crisis of 2008-09, as investors bet that rapid expansion in countries such as Turkey and Brazil could help to offset stodgy growth in the debt-burdened US, Europe and Japan.

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