Here's what you need to know about emerging markets this week, from the WSJ
News and analysis on the frontier markets
This Week on the Frontiers, July 22 2017 Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was in a fight for his political life last week as the country’s supreme court considered disqualifying him from office or putting him on trial on corruption charges, Saeed Shah reports. Sharif confronted questions over how his family acquired swank London apartments and an investigation ordered by the Supreme Court that accuses him and his children of living beyond their means, tax evasion and misdeclaration of assets as well as forgery and perjury in an attempted cover-up of the London property. Sharif has denied the allegations and called the report “a collection of assumptions, accusations and slander.” Aides have said he would continue to fight the allegations. The court concluded the hearings on Friday but did not state when it would issue a verdict. As the drama unfolded, Pakistan’s market see-sawed, gaining almost 3% early in the week, then giving up some of the gains to settle on Friday up sligh...
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