This helped the U.S. dollar rebound during the second half of May, while commodities and
emerging market stocks lost ground.
Not exact matches
Those investors got a reminder of the potential volatility in recent weeks, when
emerging -
market stock funds
lost just as much as S&P 500 index funds during the sell - off in late January and early February, even though the trigger for the
market's fear was an economic report out of the United States.
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The MSCI index of developed - nation shares
lost 43 % in 2008, while the MSCI index of
emerging -
market foreign shares fell 53 % compared with a 37 % loss for U.S.
stocks.
While the S&P was
losing 1.1 percent per annum, large, small and value
emerging market stocks returned 8.5, 7.6, and 13.4 percent per annum, respectively.1
Falling
stock prices were the culprit: Canadian
stocks were down 8 %, US
stocks lost 9 %, Europe and Pacific
lost 10 % and
Emerging markets were down 7 %.
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Anyway, I might disagree with your whole thesis, regardless —
emerging markets are no more dangerous than developed
markets: Yes, people always fearfully imagine
losing 100 % of their investment in an
emerging market — and v rarely that can happen — but they prefer to ignore the fact that in the credit crisis, on their own doorstep, they
lost all their home equity, 50 % of their
stock portfolio, and the rest was confiscated in taxes & unsustainable future tax / entitleement / debt burdens...