U.S. stocks
underperformed emerging markets stocks, which was the only one among the three major regions — U.S., developed markets ex-U.S. and EM — to turn in positive performance as of Thursday, but even emerging markets barely eked out a gain, up about one half of 1 percent.
Not exact matches
Canada's
stock market has
underperformed many of its developed and
emerging market counterparts this year after doing just the opposite in 2016.
The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed
market and
emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many
emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed
market stocks would
underperform U.S.
stocks in 2017.
The CIO went on to encourage investors to invest more in Europe and
emerging markets (both lagged North America significantly in 2014), reduce their bond allocations (bonds had their best year since 2011), and declared that «dividend
stocks will continue to pay off» (several popular dividend - focused ETFs in Canada and the US
underperformed the broad
market).
Canada's
stock market has
underperformed many of its developed and
emerging market counterparts this year after doing just the opposite in 2016.