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Emerging Market Outflows Continue Bleeding
Emerging Market (EM) fixed-income funds saw: the 2nd-largest weekly outflow recorded at $4.2 billion in the week ending Aug. 26, and overall EM net outflows of $10.5 billion in the past week are the largest since early 2008, Dimitra DeFotis from Barron’s reports. According to Morgan Stanley: Outflows have sharply accelerated in recent weeks and emerging market … Continue reading
Emerging Market Currencies Perfectly Positioned To Crash Following The Devaluation Events in China, Vietnam And Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s currency fell by a record 23% in trade on Thursday, August 20th, after the country abandoned control of its exchange rate, as it became the latest emerging market to scrap efforts to prop up its currency before the U.S. Federal Reserve hikes interest rates. Vietnam’s Central bank has devalued the nation’s currency on Wednesday, August 19th, for the … Continue reading
Sell-Off In Commodities And Emerging Markets Probably Over Says BofAML
“Fund managers are bailing on emerging markets, commodities and energy-related stocks at a record pace, suggesting that capitulation could be at hand, according to the latest fund-managers survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch,” MarketWatch reports. Fears on Greece have been replaced by fears of Chinese recession / EM debt crisis. This has manifested … Continue reading
Ahead Of MSCI’s Decision On Including China’s A Shares, Vanguard And FTSE Gear Up
Ahead of the highly awaited decision by global equity index provider MSCI on whether to include shares from mainland China’s multi-trillion stock market — or A shares — to its emerging markets index, Vanguard Group — the largest U.S. mutual fund firm — has decided that it will add mainland Chinese shares to its $69 billion emerging-market fund. The endorsement of China’s domestic … Continue reading
Six Financial Sector Challenges For Emerging And Developing Economies
The relatively weak economic growth outlook, particularly for emerging and developing economies (EMDE), provides an important backdrop for the financial challenges that some of them currently face. By Erik Feyen Recently, financial volatility returned because of various concerns in the marketplace – including (just to name a few) shifting expectations of the shape of the … Continue reading
Can Turkey ETF Survive Political Woes?
By Zacks Equity Research iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) – the sole ETF focusing on Turkey – saw a terrible start to the year and is in fact the worst performing ETF in the emerging equities space this year. TUR has plunged roughly 17% this year as against flat returns by the broad emerging market funds … Continue reading
Philippines ETF Remains An Emerging Markets Star
By Todd Shriber After finishing lower for a second consecutive year in 2014, diversified emerging markets exchange traded funds are off to decent though not spectacular starts in 2015. Off to a more impressive start than broader peers, such as the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: EEM) and theVanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight (19-Dec-2014)
By ETFalpha Global Emerging Markets expressed as iShares MSCI EM ETF (EEM) have been remaining in both negative trend and momentum. However, if the recent market bounce appears to be sustainable during the week commencing December, 21st we may see momentum turing into positive territory. Assuming that’s the case we would be recommending to increase … Continue reading
Looking for 2015 Emerging Markets Opportunities
By Todd Shriber This has been another disappointing and turbulent year for emerging markets exchange traded funds. Amid faltering currencies, tumbling commodities prices and geopolitical tensions, the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: VWO)and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: EEM), the two largest emerging markets ETFs by assets, are down an average of … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight
By ETFalpha Contact(at)ETFalpha.uk What an interesting week for global stocks and Emerging Markets. The levels of volatility jumped significantly with the VIX Index reading increased by more than 78% for the week! Both Emerging and Frontier Markets lost around 6% predominantly due to plummeting oil and generally commodity prices. Technically things look awful as both … Continue reading
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