Mexico and Colombia have now joined the “fragile five” grouping of emerging market (EM) economies, replacing India and Brazil, according to JPMorgan, the Financial Times (FT) reports. The two Latin American nations will now join Turkey, South Africa, and Indonesia to form the group of EM countries seen as the most overdependent on volatile foreign investment flows. In August 2013, as … Continue reading
Most nations in South America are either already experiencing an economic recession or are right on the verge of one. In general, South American economies are very heavily dependent on exports, and right now they are being absolutely shredded by the twin blades of a commodity price collapse and a skyrocketing U.S. dollar. By Michael … Continue reading
“One of the most impressive emerging market growth stories over the past several years has been Colombia; a country of 46 million people that has aggressively pursued pro-market reforms by reducing regulation, eliminating trade barriers and promoting foreign investment. Colombia has become a critical exporter of natural resources including oil, gold, coal, and coffee, all … Continue reading
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
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
Emerging and Frontier Markets are an asset class itself these days and offer investors amazing opportunities. The challenge is to harness the amount of volatility relatively bigger versus the other equity asset classes. Also the universe of ETFs in that space is pretty big and any successful asset allocation approach has to follow a well … Continue reading
Emerging Markets are one of the most volatile and difficult asset classes to play. During the past three years the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) hardly delivered 10.25% which is not a lot if you take into account the amount of volatility related risk investors had to bear. Only since the recent August/September peak the EEM … Continue reading