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Emerging Market Country Leaders, Laggards
As the U. S. and global markets struggled last week, five countries were in the green — in U.S. dollar terms.
Global markets fell 3.2% last week, including a 2% week-over-week decline in emerging Asia equity index performance. But Yardeni Research points out the only countries to rise last week: Sri Lanka, up 4%; Israel, 2.5%; Pakistan, 1.3%; Taiwan, 1.2% and Hungary, 0.9%.
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is down 0.33% today, but has declined more than 9% over the past month, and is down 0.28% year to date, according to FactSet. The iShares MSCI BRIC ETF (BKF) is up slightly today, and is up 1.34% year to date.
The 2014 year-to-date equity performance leaders, by country:
Egypt 35.5
India 23.2
Philippines 22.4
Sri Lanka 19.8
Thailand 19.5
The 2014 year-to-date laggards:
Austria -28.2
Portugal -25.4
Russia -24.0
Hungary -20.0
Greece -17.2
The AC World ex-U.S. index is down 4.5% year to date, led by emerging market Asia (2.6), BRIC (-1.7), and EM Latin America (-2.2). The worst-performing indexes year to date: EM Eastern Europe (-19.5), EMEA (-15.6), EMU (-9.3), and EAFE (-6.4).
http://blogs.barrons.com/emergingmarketsdaily/2014/10/07/emerging-market-country-leaders-laggards/
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