EEM Stock Recent News

During LSEG Lipper's fund flows week that ended August 16, 2023, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the fourth week in five, adding a net $31.3 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $2.5 billion in weekly net inflows, marking the seventh weekly inflow in eight. Exchange-traded taxable fixed income funds observed a $2.2 billion weekly outflow - the macro group's second weekly outflow in three.

Chinese real estate behemoth - Country Garden - once thriving, has been facing turmoil lately. This turmoil has the ability to spread contagion in the whole emerging markets space.

Growth stocks have rebounded this year after a broad sell-off in 2022. Growth-oriented exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are an easy and straightforward way to take advantage of this emerging trend.

China is no longer an overweight, strategists at Morgan Stanley said in a note changing its preferences on several emerging and Asian-Pacific markets.

Both last year and again this year, emerging market equities have seen modest outperformance relative to developed markets. That has also been the case in July with an average gain of 5.24% for EM countries versus a 2.85% rise for their developed market peers. From a technical perspective, the gains in emerging markets - proxied by the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) - have resulted in a move above resistance at some of the past year's highs.

Amy Oldenburg, Head of Emerging Markets Equity at Morgan Stanley, discusses how to invest in emerging markets.

Hot trends cool... but still key for rest of '23? Pt 2: International & "Buffered".

Periods of global instability create intriguing possibilities in emerging markets. Here are a few.

Now is an opportune time for investors with home country biases to add international exposure. With international stocks trading at a discount relative to past valuations, there is significant upside opportunity.

A strong U.S. dollar generally has adverse effects on emerging market economies. Rising interest rates in the U.S. can lead to tighter financial conditions in emerging markets. As the Federal Reserve moves closer to stopping its rate hikes, emerging markets represented by iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF stand to benefit from the downward pressure on the U.S. dollar.