LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley has become the latest Wall Street bank to turn bullish on local emerging market bonds, though its strategists said they remained wary of developing economies' currencies in the face of a dollar that is set to remain strong. "We upgrade our stance on EM local currency bonds to bullish, where we have held a neutral stance for much of the year," Morgan Stanley strategist James Lord said in a note to clients dated Friday. In a note published on Friday, JPMorgan moved its recommendation emerging market local bonds back to "overweight" from "market weight". "We prefer EM local to hard currency bonds for 2H23," Luis Oganes, head of global macro research at JPMorgan wrote in a note to clients. Emerging market central banks had been quick to raise rates in 2021, frontrunning major peers such as the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.

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Persons: Morgan Stanley, James Lord, Lord, Luis Oganes, Oganes, frontrunning, Karin Strohecker, Conor Humphries Organizations: FX, JPMorgan, U.S . Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Thomson Locations: Hungary, Uruguay, America