BLDRS Emerging Markets 50 ADR Index Fund ETF News

During the COVID-19 crisis, investor flight to safety assets and a strong US dollar battered emerging market stocks this year.

The global pandemic has accelerated growth in certain sectors and industries such as digital payments, e-commerce, data centers, telemedicine and video gaming, with disruption timelines shortening.

2020 has been quite the start to a new decade. COVID-19, the economic shutdowns and quick actions by the Fed have certainly taken center stage during the first half.

With the spread of COVID-19 having slowed in recent months, the focus of policymakers and markets has started to shift from the immediate needs of the health crisis towards the economy.

Today, it seems that US investors have reached the underperformance pain point with broad Emerging Markets.

A central bank's ability to fight inflation is constrained by the sovereign's ability to weather an economic slowdown and service its debt. Some EMs have earned

Our base case is that the global economic recovery in its initial stages will be slow and uneven. We assume there will be a gradual easing of lockdowns and a gr

Weaker healthcare systems in Emerging Market (EM) countries resulted in stricter lockdowns compared to developed markets. E-commerce and fintech firms in EM ste

China is increasingly under the magnifying glass for its role in spreading misinformation about COVID-19 - or at the very least failing to properly warn the glo

In the absence of a medical solution, the strength of the recovery is highly uncertain and the impact on sectors and countries uneven. Compared to our April Wor

China is increasingly under the magnifying glass for its role in spreading misinformation about COVID-19 - or at the very least failing to properly warn the glo

As we continue to shift towards a knowledge-based global economy, we are seeing a rise in the importance of intangible assets. In fact, several emerging markets

While many investors once considered emerging markets as tied to commodity ups and downs, the asset class has become much more diversified. The emerging market

What’s different about this crisis, over and above the fact that the economy was in reasonably good shape before this phase, is that the stimulus we have seen h

EMs have less capacity to respond to the pandemic through fiscal and monetary stimulus than does the developed world. The Middle East, Africa, and Latin America