Sentences with phrase «caused emerging market stocks»

Trump has also threatened free trade agreements which has caused emerging market stocks to decline.

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China's surprise decision to revalue the yuan as it tried to contain the stock market turmoil caused the currency to drop the most in 21 years last month, triggering exchange - rate declines elsewhere in the emerging world on concern that a weaker yuan will hurt countries exporting to China.

Indeed, investors have cause to celebrate, as global stocks are up over 20 % for the year, with emerging market stocks leading the way.

Curiously, even the hint earlier this year that the Fed would be dialing down its massive stimulus program caused stock markets in a number of emerging nations to stumble.

While the U.S. Fed's quantitative easing program has caused a pullback, Excel Funds portfolio manager Christine Tan points out that emerging market stocks are now 10 % lower than their historical norms.

There are plenty of reasons why the region struggled, including slowing growth in China (the country saw its GDP fall from about 11 % in 2010 to around 7.7 % in 2015), falling commodity prices and political instability, which caused investors to buy more American stocks and less emerging market ones.

Another example is a recent switch of the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF's (VWO) underlying index from MSCI to FTSE, which caused all South Korean stocks to be removed from the fund.

Worries over slowing economic growth in the emerging markets have caused stock prices to stagnate this year, and that has naturally affected small - caps.

Moore, meanwhile, compares current market conditions to what happened in 1998, when the emerging popularity of technology stocks, combined with the fallout from the collapse of Russian and Asian financial markets, caused REIT stocks to be severely undervalued.