Economic worry shifts to emerging markets at Russian G20 Summit

MOSCOW: Long hailed as the hungry new tigers of the global economy, the world’s biggest emerging markets will be the chief economic focus at the G20 summit in Russia this week as their once surging prospects suddenly dim.

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—grouped in the informal BRICS bloc seen as an alternative economic powerhouse—all go into the meeting experiencing slowing growth and embattled currencies.