KINIBIZ Tiger is by nature a suspicious animal. It does not pay to be too trusting whether in the real jungle or the corporate one, and especially the corporate one where there is only one god - profit, at the expense of almost everything else.

So when imbalanced reports come out from respectable news agencies such as Bloomberg and Reuters about how there is contagion in the emerging markets, then take note, for there may be something bigger than that behind the scenes - an agenda if you will.

When funds in unison speak about contagion and how “tapering” – we will explain the term later – will contribute to emerging market instability along with a host of so-called new developments which have been around for a while, we may be talking about orchestration instead.

In other words – and to be blunt – manipulation of the markets by influencing opinion to give the appearance of impending panic after they have taken short positions in these currencies and markets, that is betting they will fall.

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This article was written by P Gunasegaram.