MSCI Emerging Markets Index

Global investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) recently reported that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has been the best-performing asset in the world so far this year. This comes as a surprise to many, as the bank has been known to be a vocal critic of Bitcoin in the past. A tweet featuring details...

Many diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds are heavily allocated to Asia. Whether those funds track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, related benchmarks or not, the prominence of Asian countries is supposedly diversified emerging markets funds is reflective of the continent's...

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is up more than 25 percent year-to-date, putting the widely-followed gauge of developing world equities on pace for its best annual performance since 2012. Investors are responding, making emerging markets exchange traded funds (ETFs) some of this year's top...

Emerging markets stocks hit a rough spot last week as markets roiled by an intensifying geopolitical rift between the U.S. and North Korea. However, the saber rattling did not prompt large-scale departures from some emerging markets exchange-traded funds, although the MSCI Emerging Markets Index...

The iShares MSCI Thailand Capped ETF (NYSE: THD), the lone U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund dedicated to Thai stocks, is up about 12 percent year to date. While that performance lags the returns of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, that sentiment should diminish the potential offered by THD. THD is...

In professional sports, some leagues have a comeback or most improved player of the year award. If such an award existed in the world of exchange-traded funds, any number of emerging markets funds would qualify this year. The widely followed MSCI Emerging Markets Index is up 16.3 percent year-to-...

Gainers Pakistan: Global XMSCI Pakistan ETF (NYSE: PAK) is up 5.67 percent after receiving MSCI's Emerging Markets Index approval. Peru: iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund(NYSE: EPU) is up 2.15 percent after Kuzynski won Peru's nail-biting election. Philippines: iShares MSCI Philippines...

Morgan Stanley Capital is a leading provider of global equity indices and announced on Tuesday it will not include China-listed A shares in its Msci Inc (NYSE: MSCI) MSCI Emerging Markets Index. "There have been significant steps toward the eventual inclusion of China A shares in the MSCI Emerging...

Thanks in large part to soaring precious metals prices, the iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund (NYSE: EPU) is up nearly 48.7 percent this year. That is better than triple the returns offered by the iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index (ETF) (NYSE: ILF) and more than 11 times the performance...

It could be the very definition of a value trap. The Shanghai Composite, the benchmark equity gauge for mainland Chinese stocks, has plunged over the past year. However, that does not mean Chinese A-shares are inexpensive. Rather, the opposite is true. “Even after a 40 percent tumble in the...

That is an admittedly tough proclamation to make when China exchange-traded funds are obvious laggards in the emerging markets space this year. The iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (ETF) (NYSE: FXI), the largest China ETF trading in the United States, is down 7 percent year-to-date, while the...

Conventional wisdom would dictate that although emerging markets stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds are performing better this year than they have over the past couple of years, this probably is not the time to embrace Indian stocks. After all, commodities prices are rebounding, and that...

Emerging markets stocks and exchange-traded funds are thought to be strong performers this year, but the reality is the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is down 0.1 percent. Still, that is better than what investors became accustomed to diversified emerging markets benchmarks over the past few years....

No, it is not a coincidence. The U.S. Dollar Index is down 4.6 percent year-to-date and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is slightly higher. With the greenback's slide now spanning multiple months, some currency market participants are expecting the dollar to rebound. If that scenario comes to...

The iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia Capped ETF (NYSE: KSA), the lone exchange-traded fund dedicated to stocks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nation, is down nearly 1.1 percent year-to-date, a disappointing performance when noting the United States Brent Oil Fund, LP (NYSE: BNO) is higher by 19.5...