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Outlook for emerging market stocks dim

Citigroup said it remains moderately bullish on emerging market equities, however, expecting a full-year gain of 9% in dollar terms and projecting total returns of around 12% for the MSCI Global Emerging Market index. The index rose 15% last year.

The investment bank said the shares' performance would weaken due to less attractive valuations compared with a year ago, despite supporting factors such as continued liquidity from quantitative easing in developed economies.

"(Emerging market) equities re-rated last year. We doubt that will happen again in 2013," Citigroup said in the report dated on Wednesday.

Citigroup cut Thailand, Czech Republic and Peru to "neutral" from "overweight", while cutting South Africa and India to "underweight" from "neutral".

Citigroup cut Asia to "neutral" from "overweight", citing less upside potential this year despite strong fundamentals, while lowering CEEMEA to "underweight" from "neutral" due to weak growth, macroeconomic risks and soft oil prices.

However, the investment bank raised Latin America to "overweight" from "underweight" because of its severe underperformance last year.

Across countries, Citigroup raised Brazil to "overweight" from "underweight" while boosting Mexico to "overweight" from "neutral", and raised Taiwan to "neutral" from "underweight".

By sectors, Citigroup raised emerging market industrials to "neutral" from "underweight" while cutting telecoms to "underweight".

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